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Εὔβοια

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See also: Εύβοια

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From εὐ- (eu-, good) + βο- (bo-, cow) + -ια (-ia, country of), literally good cow country.

Pronunciation

 

Proper noun

Εὔβοιᾰ (Eúboiă) f (genitive Εὐβοίᾱς); first declension

  1. Euboea.

Inflection

Derived terms

  • Εὐβοεύς (Euboeús)
  • Εὐβοϊκός (Euboïkós)
  • Εὐβοικός (Euboikós)
  • Εὑβοιίς (Heuboiís)
  • Εὐβοῖδα (Euboîda)

Descendants

  • French: Eubée
  • Greek: Εύβοια f (Évvoia)
  • Latin: Euboea
  • Turkish: Öbe (Eğriboz is more common)

References

  • Εὔβοια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Εὔβοια”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Εὔβοια”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • Εὔβοια”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,010

Further reading

Euboea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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