English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin Ephesus, from Ancient Greek Ἔφεσος (Éphesos).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Ephesus
- (historical) An ancient Greek city in Anatolia, near Selçuk in modern İzmir Province, Turkey.
Derived terms
Translations
ancient city
— see also Selçuk
- Afrikaans: Efese
- Arabic: أَفَسُس (ʔafasus)
- Armenian: Եփեսոս (Epʻesos)
- Old Armenian: Եփեսոս (Epʻesos)
- Azerbaijani: Efes
- Basque: Efeso
- Belarusian: Эфе́с m (Efjés)
- Breton: Efesos m
- Bulgarian: Ефес m (Efes)
- Catalan: Efes m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 以弗所 (zh) (yǐfúsuǒ)
- Czech: Efez m
- Danish: Efesos
- Dutch: Efeze (nl) m
- Esperanto: Efeso
- Extremaduran: Éfesu
- Faroese: Efesus m
- Finnish: Efesos (fi)
- French: Éphèse (fr) m
- Galician: Éfeso (gl) m
- Georgian: ეფესო (epeso)
- German: Ephesus (de)
- Greek: Έφεσος (el) m (Éfesos)
- Ancient: Ἔφεσος f (Éphesos)
- Hebrew: אפסוס m (efesos)
- Hindi: इफेसस m (iphesas)
- Hungarian: Epheszosz
- Icelandic: Efesos m
- Indonesian: Ephesos, Efesus
- Irish: Eifeasas m
- Italian: Efeso (it)
- Japanese: エフェソス (Efesosu)
- Javanese: Efesus
- Korean: 에페소스 (Epesoseu)
- Latin: Ephesus f
- Macedonian: Ефес m (Efes)
- Malay: Efesus
- Marathi: इफेसूस m (iphesūs)
- Norwegian: Efesos m
- Old English: Ephese m
- Ottoman Turkish: افس (efes)
- Persian: افسس (Efesos)
- Polish: Efez (pl) m
- Portuguese: Éfeso (pt) m
- Romanian: Efes m
- Russian: Ефе́с (ru) m (Jefés), Эфе́с (ru) m (Efés)
- Saterland Frisian: Ephesos
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: Ѐфез m
- Roman: Èfes, Èfez (sh)
- Sicilian: Èfesu m
- Slovak: Efez
- Spanish: Éfeso
- Swahili: Efeso
- Swedish: Efesos
- Tagalog: Epeso
- Tamil: எபேசஸ் (epēcas)
- Turkish: Efes
- Welsh: Effesus m
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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἔφεσος (Éphesos).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Ephesus f sg (genitive Ephesī); second declension
- Ephesus (an ancient Greek city in Anatolia, near Selçuk in modern İzmir Province, Turkey)
Declension
Second-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
Descendants
References
- “Ephesus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Ephesus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.