Heraea

Heraea

1. Heraea (a city in Arcadia, Greece).
2. The Heraean Games

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἡραία (Hēraía).

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

Hēraea f sg (genitive Hēraeae); first declension

1. A city of Arcadia situated on the river Alpheus near the borders with Elis
2. Hybla Heraea, one of the ancient city of Sicily, named after the goddess Hybla; probably located in the vicinity of today's Ragusa.

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• Hēraeātis

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