Eritrea
English
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Etymology
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”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌɛɹɪˈtɹ(e)ɪə/, /ˌɪɹɪˈtɹ(e)ɪə/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌɛɹɪˈtɹi.ə/, /ˌɛɹɪˈtɹeɪə/, /ˌɪɹɪˈtɹeɪə/
- Rhymes: -eɪə
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Proper noun
Eritrea
- A country in East Africa, on the Red Sea. Capital: Asmara.
- The modern State of Eritrea (since the 1990s).
- (historical) A former province of or in union with Ethiopia.
- (historical, from 1890) A former colony of Italy.
Hypernyms
Derived terms
- Eritrean (adjective/noun)
Translations
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See also
- Asmara
- Countries of the world
- Italian Eritrea
- (countries of Africa) countries of Africa; Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Western Sahara, Zambia, Zimbabwe (Category: en:Countries in Africa) [edit]
Anagrams
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Proper noun
Eritrea
- Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea; capital: Asmara)
Derived terms
Breton
Proper noun
Eritrea
- Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
Catalan
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ə.ɾiˈtɾe.ə]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [e.ɾiˈtɾe.a]
Audio (Valencia): (file)
Proper noun
Eritrea f
- Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
Related terms
Central Huasteca Nahuatl
Proper noun
Eritrea
- Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
Central Nahuatl
Proper noun
Eritrea
- Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
Czech
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Eritrea f (related adjective eritrejský, demonym Eritrejec)
- Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
Declension
Further reading
- “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)
Danish
Proper noun
Eritrea
- Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
Dutch
Etymology
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”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Eritrea n
- Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
Derived terms
Further reading
Eritrea on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia nl
Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Eritrea
- Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
Declension
Inflection of Eritrea (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Eritrea | — | |
genitive | Eritrean | — | |
partitive | Eritreaa | — | |
illative | Eritreaan | — | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Eritrea | — | |
accusative | nom. | Eritrea | — |
gen. | Eritrean | ||
genitive | Eritrean | — | |
partitive | Eritreaa | — | |
inessive | Eritreassa | — | |
elative | Eritreasta | — | |
illative | Eritreaan | — | |
adessive | Eritrealla | — | |
ablative | Eritrealta | — | |
allative | Eritrealle | — | |
essive | Eritreana | — | |
translative | Eritreaksi | — | |
abessive | Eritreatta | — | |
instructive | — | — | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Derived terms
Galician
Proper noun
Eritrea f
- Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
Related terms
German
Alternative forms
Etymology
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”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Eritrea n (proper noun, genitive Eritreas or (optionally with an article) Eritrea)
- Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
Derived terms
Hungarian
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Eritrea
- Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
Declension
Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | Eritrea | — |
accusative | Eritreát | — |
dative | Eritreának | — |
instrumental | Eritreával | — |
causal-final | Eritreáért | — |
translative | Eritreává | — |
terminative | Eritreáig | — |
essive-formal | Eritreaként | — |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | Eritreában | — |
superessive | Eritreán | — |
adessive | Eritreánál | — |
illative | Eritreába | — |
sublative | Eritreára | — |
allative | Eritreához | — |
elative | Eritreából | — |
delative | Eritreáról | — |
ablative | Eritreától | — |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
Eritreáé | — |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
Eritreáéi | — |
Possessive forms of Eritrea | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | Eritreám | — |
2nd person sing. | Eritreád | — |
3rd person sing. | Eritreája | — |
1st person plural | Eritreánk | — |
2nd person plural | Eritreátok | — |
3rd person plural | Eritreájuk | — |
Related terms
Interlingua
Proper noun
Eritrea
- Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
Italian
Etymology
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”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
l'Eritrea f
- Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
Related terms
Descendants
- → Arabic: إِرِيتْرِيَا (ʔirītriyā)
- → English: Eritrea
- → French: Érythrée, Erythrée (semantic loan)
- → German: Eritrea
- → New Latin: Erythraea (“Eritrea”) (learned)
- → German: Erythräa
Anagrams
Norwegian Bokmål
Proper noun
Eritrea
- Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
Related terms
Norwegian Nynorsk
Proper noun
Eritrea
- Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
Related terms
Spanish
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Eritrea f
- Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
Related terms
Swahili
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Eritrea
- Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
See also
- (countries of Africa) nchi za Afrika; Algeria or Aljeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Kamerun or Cameroon or Kameruni, Jamhuri ya Afrika ya Kati, Chad or Chadi, Komori or Visiwa vya Ngazija, Cote d'Ivoire or Kodivaa, Jamhuri ya Kidemokrasia ya Kongo or Kongo-Kinshasa, Jibuti or Djibouti, Misri or Umisri, Guinea ya Ikweta or Ginekweta, Eritrea, Ethiopia or Uhabeshi or Habeshi, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea or Gine or Gini, Guinea Bisau or Guinea-Bisau or Ginebisau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagaska or Bukini, Malawi or Unyasa, Mali, Mauritania, Morisi, Mayotte, Moroko or Maroko, Msumbiji or Mozambik, Namibia, Niger or Nijeri, Nigeria or Nijeria or Naijeria, Jamhuri ya Kongo or Kongo-Brazzaville, Réunion, Rwanda or Ruanda, Mtakatifu Helena, Sao Tome na Principe, Senegal or Senegali, Shelisheli, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Afrika Kusini, Sudan Kusini, Sudan, Uswazi or Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Sahara ya Magharibi, Zambia, Zimbabwe (Category: sw:Countries in Africa) [edit]
Swedish
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Proper noun
Eritrea n (genitive Eritreas)
- Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)
Related terms
- English terms borrowed from Italian
- English terms derived from Italian
- English terms derived from Latin
- English terms derived from Ancient Greek
- English 4-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/eɪə
- Rhymes:English/eɪə/3 syllables
- English terms with audio links
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Eritrea
- en:Countries in Africa
- en:Countries
- English terms with historical senses
- en:Historical political subdivisions
- en:Places in Ethiopia
- en:Historical dependent territories
- en:Places in Italy
- Afrikaans terms with audio links
- Afrikaans lemmas
- Afrikaans proper nouns
- af:Eritrea
- af:Countries in Africa
- af:Countries
- Breton lemmas
- Breton proper nouns
- br:Eritrea
- br:Countries in Africa
- br:Countries
- Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation
- Catalan terms with audio links
- Catalan lemmas
- Catalan proper nouns
- Catalan feminine nouns
- ca:Eritrea
- ca:Countries in Africa
- ca:Countries
- Central Huasteca Nahuatl lemmas
- Central Huasteca Nahuatl proper nouns
- nch:Eritrea
- nch:Countries in Africa
- nch:Countries
- Central Nahuatl lemmas
- Central Nahuatl proper nouns
- nhn:Eritrea
- nhn:Countries in Africa
- nhn:Countries
- Czech terms with IPA pronunciation
- Czech terms with audio links
- Czech lemmas
- Czech proper nouns
- Czech feminine nouns
- cs:Eritrea
- cs:Countries in Africa
- cs:Countries
- Czech uncountable nouns
- Czech feminine nouns in -ea
- Danish lemmas
- Danish proper nouns
- da:Eritrea
- da:Countries in Africa
- da:Countries
- Dutch terms borrowed from Italian
- Dutch terms derived from Italian
- Dutch terms derived from Latin
- Dutch terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation
- Dutch terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Dutch/eːaː
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch proper nouns
- Dutch neuter nouns
- nl:Eritrea
- nl:Countries in Africa
- nl:Countries
- Finnish terms derived from Italian
- Finnish 4-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/eɑ
- Rhymes:Finnish/eɑ/4 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- fi:Eritrea
- fi:Countries in Africa
- fi:Countries
- Finnish kulkija-type nominals
- Finnish uncountable nouns
- Galician lemmas
- Galician proper nouns
- Galician feminine nouns
- gl:Eritrea
- gl:Countries in Africa
- gl:Countries
- German terms borrowed from Italian
- German terms derived from Italian
- German terms derived from Latin
- German terms derived from Ancient Greek
- German 4-syllable words
- German terms with IPA pronunciation
- German terms with audio links
- German lemmas
- German proper nouns
- German neuter nouns
- de:Eritrea
- de:Countries in Africa
- de:Countries
- Hungarian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Hungarian/ɒ
- Rhymes:Hungarian/ɒ/4 syllables
- Hungarian lemmas
- Hungarian proper nouns
- hu:Eritrea
- hu:Countries in Africa
- hu:Countries
- Interlingua lemmas
- Interlingua proper nouns
- ia:Eritrea
- ia:Countries in Africa
- ia:Countries
- Italian terms derived from Latin
- Italian terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/ɛa
- Rhymes:Italian/ɛa/4 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian proper nouns
- Italian feminine nouns
- it:Eritrea
- it:Countries in Africa
- it:Countries
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål proper nouns
- nb:Eritrea
- nb:Countries in Africa
- nb:Countries
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk proper nouns
- nn:Eritrea
- nn:Countries in Africa
- nn:Countries
- Spanish 4-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Spanish terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Spanish/ea
- Rhymes:Spanish/ea/4 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish proper nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
- es:Eritrea
- es:Countries in Africa
- es:Countries
- Swahili terms with audio links
- Swahili lemmas
- Swahili proper nouns
- sw:Eritrea
- sw:Countries in Africa
- sw:Countries
- Swedish terms with audio links
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish proper nouns
- Swedish neuter nouns
- sv:Eritrea
- sv:Countries in Africa
- sv:Countries