Eretria

From Ancient Greek Ἐρέτρῐᾰ (Erétrĭă, from ἐρέτης (erétēs, “rower”), literally “city of the rowers”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˈɹiːtɹiə/

Eretria

1. (historical) A town in Euboea, Greece, facing the coast of Attica across the narrow South Euboean Gulf. It was an important polis in the 6th/5th century BC.

• Eretrian

• Eritrea, tearier

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἐρέτρια (Erétria).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɛˈrɛ.tri.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [eˈrɛː.t̪ri.a]

Eretria f sg (genitive Eretriae); first declension

1. Eretria

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• Eretrius
• Eretriensis
• Eretricus

• French: Érétrie

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