Ambracia

Ambracia

1. (historical) A city of ancient Greece on the site of modern Arta.

From Ancient Greek Ἀμβρακία (Ambrakía).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [amˈbra.ki.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [amˈbraː.t͡ʃi.a]

Ambracia f sg (genitive Ambraciae); first declension

1. an ancient town in southern Epirus, now Arta

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• Ambraciēnsis

• Ambraciōtēs
• Ambracius

• “Ambracia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Ambracia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Ambracia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Ambracia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly