Aethiopia

Borrowed from Latin Aethiopia.

Aethiopia

1. (historical) Alternative form of Ethiopia (“a broad region of eastern Africa”).

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Αἰθιοπία (Aithiopía), from Αἰθίοψ (Aithíops), of disputed origin.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ae̯.tʰiˈɔ.pi.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [e.t̪iˈɔː.pi.a]

Aethiopia f sg (genitive Aethiopiae); first declension

1. Ethiopia (a historical region of East Africa)
2. (New Latin) Ethiopia (a country in East Africa)
3. Sub-Saharan Africa

First-declension noun, singular only.

• aethiopicus
• aethiopus
• aethiopius
• Aethiopissa
• Aethiops

• Asturian: Etiopía
• → Catalan: Etiòpia
• → English: Ethiopia
  • → Gujarati: ઇથિયોપિયા (ithiyopiyā)
  • → Hindi: इथियोपिया (ithiyopiyā)
  • → Korean: 에티오피아 (etiopia)
  • → Navajo: Iithiyópya
  • → Urdu: ایتھوپیا (ethopyā)
  • → Yoruba: Ìtíópíà
• → Finnish: Etiopia
• French: Éthiopie
  • → Khmer: អេត្យូពី (ʼeetyoupii)
  • → Lao: ເອທິໂອປີ (ʼē thi ʼō pī)
  • → Persian: اتیوپی (etyupi)
• Galician: Etiopía
• Italian: Etiopia
• → Latvian: Etiopija
• Norman: Êthiopie
• Portuguese: Etiópia
• Romanian: Etiopia
• Spanish: Etiopía
  • → Tagalog: Etiyopiya

• “Aethiopia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Aethiopia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.