Eritrea

Borrowed from Italian (l')Eritrea, first used in Italian as an ellipsis of la Colonia eritrea (“Italian Eritrea”, literally “the Erythraean colony”), from eritrea, feminine of eritreo (“Erythraean (of or relating to the Erythraean Sea)”), from Latin erythraeus (“reddish”), from Ancient Greek ἐρυθρός (eruthrós, “red”).

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˌɛɹ.ɪˈtɹeɪ.ə/, /ˌɛɹ.ɪˈtɹiː.ə/

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• Rhymes: -eɪə, -iːə

Eritrea

2. A country in East Africa, on the Red Sea. Capital: Asmara.
   1. The modern State of Eritrea (since the 1990s).
      • 2025 April 22, Joe Minihane, “24 of the world’s most unusual landscapes”, in CNN‎^[1]:

        Close to the border with Eritrea, its ethereal, Martian landscape sits within the Danakil Depression.

   2. (historical) A former province of or in union with Ethiopia.
   3. (historical, from 1890) A former colony of Italy.

• Subsahara

• Eritrean (adjective/noun)

• Asmara
• Countries of the world
• Italian Eritrea

• Eretria, tearier

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Eritrea

1. Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea; capital: Asmara)

• Eritrees
• Eritreër

Eritrea

1. Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ə.ɾiˈtɾe.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [e.ɾiˈtɾe.a]

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Eritrea f

1. Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)

• eritreu

Eritrea

1. Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)

Eritrea

1. Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛrɪtrɛa]

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Eritrea f (relational adjective eritrejský, demonym Eritrejec)

1. Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)

• “Eritrea”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “Eritrea”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “Eritrea”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Eritrea

1. Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)

Borrowed from Italian (l')Eritrea, first used in Italian as an ellipsis of la Colonia eritrea (“Italian Eritrea”, literally “the Erythraean colony”), from eritrea, feminine of eritreo (“Erythraean (of or relating to the Erythraean Sea)”), from Latin erythraeus (“reddish”), from Ancient Greek ἐρυθρός (eruthrós, “red”).

• IPA^(key): /ˌeː.riˈtreː.aː/

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• Hyphenation: Eri‧trea
• Rhymes: -eːaː

Eritrea n

1. Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)

• Eritreeër
• Eritrees

• Eritrea on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

From Italian Eritrea.

• IPA^(key): /ˈeritreɑ/, [ˈe̞rit̪ˌre̞ɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -eɑ
• Syllabification^(key): E‧rit‧re‧a
• Hyphenation^(key): E‧rit‧rea

Eritrea

1. Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)

Eritrea f

1. Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)

• eritreo

• Erythräa

Borrowed from Italian (l')Eritrea, first used in Italian as an ellipsis of la Colonia eritrea (“Italian Eritrea”, literally “the Erythraean colony”), from eritrea, feminine of eritreo (“Erythraean (of or relating to the Erythraean Sea)”), from Latin erythraeus (“reddish”), from Ancient Greek ἐρυθρός (eruthrós, “red”).

• IPA^(key): /eʁiˈtʁeː.a/

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Eritrea n (proper noun, genitive Eritreas or (optionally with an article) Eritrea)

1. Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)

• eritreisch
• Eritreer

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛritrɛɒ]
• Hyphenation: Erit‧rea
• Rhymes: -ɒ

Eritrea

1. Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)

• eritreai

Eritrea

1. Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)

First used as an ellipsis of la Colonia eritrea (“Italian Eritrea”, literally “the Erythraean colony”), from eritrea, feminine of eritreo (“Erythraean (of or relating to the Erythraean Sea)”), from Latin erythraeus (“reddish”), from Ancient Greek ἐρυθρός (eruthrós, “red”).

• IPA^(key): /l‿e.riˈtrɛ.a/
• Rhymes: -ɛa

l'Eritrea f

1. Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)

• eritreo
• l'Eritreo

• → Arabic: إِرِيتْرِيَا (ʔirītriyā)
• → English: Eritrea
• → French: Érythrée, Erythrée (semantic loan)
  • Haitian Creole: Eritre
  • → Persian: اریتره (eritre)
  • → Turkish: Eritre
• → German: Eritrea
• → New Latin: Erythraea (“Eritrea”) (learned)
  • → German: Erythräa

• arterie, artiere, erriate, iterare, itererà, ratiere, reitera, tarerei

Eritrea

1. Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)

• eritreer
• eritreisk

Eritrea

1. Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)

• eritrear
• eritreisk

• IPA^(key): [ˈeritrea]

Eritrea f (genitive singular Eritrey, declension pattern of žena)

1. Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)

• “Eritrea”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

• IPA^(key): /eɾiˈtɾea/ [e.ɾiˈt̪ɾe.a]

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• Rhymes: -ea
• Syllabification: E‧ri‧tre‧a

Eritrea f

1. Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)

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Eritrea

1. Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)

• IPA^(key): /ɛrɪˈtreːa/

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Eritrea n (genitive Eritreas)

1. Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)

• eritrean
• eritreansk
• eritreanska

• Eritrea in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• Svensk MeSH

Eritrea f

1. Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)

• Eritreaidd (“Eritrean”, adjective)