Érythrée
See also: Erythrée
French
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Etymology
From Latin erythraeus, as it was used in Erythraeum mare (“the Erythraean Sea”), from Ancient Greek ἐρυθρός (eruthrós, “red”). The second sense is a semantic loan from Italian l'Eritrea, first used in Italian as an ellipsis of la Colonia eritrea (“Italian Eritrea”, literally “the Erythraean colony”).
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- IPA(key): /e.ʁi.tʁe/
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Proper noun
l’Érythrée f
- (obsolete or historical) Ellipsis of la mer Érythrée (“the Erythraean Sea”).
- 1730, Traitez géographiques et historiques, pages 40–41:
- En second lieu, si l’on dit que les Tyriens se servirent du même expédient dont commença à user Cléopatre à la Bataille d’Actium, & que ces Vaisseaux furent transportez à force de Bras, & d’Argent, de la mer Mediterranée dans l’Erythrée, l’intervalle de l’une à l’autre n’étant que de trois cens stades; la chose ne paroîtra pas non plus incroyable.
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- Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea) [from 20th c.]
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