Idumaea

• Idumea

Idumaea

2. (historical) An ancient region in the south of Judea in modern Israel and the West Bank, inhabited by the Edomites during the Hellenistic period and Roman occupation.

• Edom
• Edomite
• Edomitish
• Edomitic

• Esau

• Idūmēa

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἰδουμαία (Idoumaía).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪ.duːˈmae̯.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [i.d̪uˈmɛː.a]

Idūmaea f sg (genitive Idūmaeae); first declension

1. (historical) Idumaea (an ancient region in the south of Judea in modern Israel and the West Bank, inhabited by the Edomites during the Hellenistic period and Roman occupation)

First-declension noun, singular only.

• Idūmaeus

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