Érythrée

See also: Erythrée

French

Alternative forms

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).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /e.ʁi.tʁe/
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Proper noun

l’Érythrée f

  1. (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.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • 1886, Géographie de Strabon, pages 95–96:
      [...] il se demande [...] comment il a pu se faire au contraire que l’Érythrée ait conservé son niveau sans baisser.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea) [from 20th c.]

Usage notes

  • In older French practice, capital letters did not take diacritics, so É becomes E. This was mostly done because of technical constraints. Formal orthotypography maintains the diacritics.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Haitian Creole: Eritre
  • Persian: اریتره (eritre)
  • Turkish: Eritre

See also

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