Pindus
Appearance
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin Pindus, from Ancient Greek Πίνδος (Píndos).
Proper noun
[edit]Pindus
- A mountain range in northern Greece, often called the "spine of Greece"
Translations
[edit]mountain range
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πίνδος (Píndos).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpin.dus/, [ˈpɪn̪d̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpin.dus/, [ˈpin̪d̪us]
Proper noun
[edit]Pindus m sg (genitive Pindī); second declension
- A long range of mountains situated in northern Greece
- One of the towns of the tetrapolis of Doris
- A river of Doris flowing into the Cephisus
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
singular | |
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nominative | Pindus |
genitive | Pindī |
dative | Pindō |
accusative | Pindum |
ablative | Pindō |
vocative | Pinde |
locative | Pindī |
References
[edit]- “Pindus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Pindus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- Pindos in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Categories:
- English terms derived from Latin
- English terms derived from Ancient Greek
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Mountains
- en:Places in Greece
- Latin terms borrowed from Ancient Greek
- Latin terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Latin 2-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin proper nouns
- Latin second declension nouns
- Latin masculine nouns in the second declension
- Latin masculine nouns
- la:Greece
- la:Mountains
- la:Rivers
- la:Towns