Pyrenaeus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πῡρηναῖος (Pūrēnaîos). By surface analysis, Pȳrēnē +‎ -eus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pyː.reːˈnae̯.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [pi.reˈnɛː.us]

Pȳrēnaeus (feminine Pȳrēnaea, neuter Pȳrēnaeum); first/second-declension adjective

1. Pyrenean
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.1:

     Aquītānia ā Garumnā flūmine ad Pȳrēnaeōs mōntēs et eam partem Ōceanī quae est ad Hispāniam pertinet...

     Aquitania extends from the Garonne river to the Pyrenaean mountains and that part of the ocean which reaches Iberia...

First/second-declension adjective.

• Pȳrēnaeī montēs

• “Pyrenaeus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Pyrenaeus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]
• “Pyrenaeus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers