Illyria

English

Etymology

From Latin Illyria, from Ancient Greek Ἰλλυρία (Illuría), which may be from Illyrian *Hullurio (“(place or tribe) of the serpent”), from Proto-Indo-European *udlós.[1] This is supported by the attestation of Hílurios by Plautus in Menaechmi (200s BC).[2]

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɪɹiə

Proper noun

Illyria

  2. (historical) A vaguely-defined geographic region in Southeast Europe in the western part of the Balkan Peninsula, approximately coincident with modern Albania.
  4. (historical) A much larger former province of the Roman Empire, covering the whole of Dalmatia and Pannonia, existing from 27 BC to c. 70 AD and reconstituted in 293 AD by Diocletian.

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References

  1. ^ Eichner, Heiner. 2004. Illyrisch – die unbekannte Sprache. In: Museum für Urgeschichte Asparn a. d. Zaya (ed.): Die Illyrer. Archäologische Funde des 1. vorchristlichen Jahrtausends aus Albanien, pp. 92–117.
  2. ^ Platus.The Menaechmi, pp. 28

Further reading

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἰλλυρία (Illuría), which may be from Illyrian. Of obscure origin, but possibly from a conjectural Illyrian *Hullurio (“(place or tribe) of the serpent”), from Proto-Indo-European *udlós.[1] This is supported by the attestation of Hílurios by Plautus in Menaechmi (200s BC).[2]

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Īllyria f sg (genitive Īllyriae); first declension

  1. (historical) Illyria (a vaguely-defined geographic region in Southeast Europe in the western part of the Balkan Peninsula, approximately coincident with modern Albania)
  2. (historical) Illyria, Illyricum (a much larger former province of the Roman Empire, covering the whole of Dalmatia and Pannonia, existing from 27 BC to c. 70 AD and reconstituted in 293 AD by Diocletian)

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

singular
nominative Īllyria
genitive Īllyriae
dative Īllyriae
accusative Īllyriam
ablative Īllyriā
vocative Īllyria
locative Īllyriae

References

  1. ^ Eichner, Heiner. 2004. Illyrisch – die unbekannte Sprache. In: Museum für Urgeschichte Asparn a. d. Zaya (ed.): Die Illyrer. Archäologische Funde des 1. vorchristlichen Jahrtausends aus Albanien, pp. 92–117.
  2. ^ Platus.The Menaechmi, pp. 28
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