Pieria

See also: pieriä

English

Proper noun

Pieria

  1. A regional unit of the administrative region of Central Macedonia, in north-central Greece.
  2. (historical) A Roman province of the region of Syria, in modern Turkey.

Translations

German

Proper noun

Pieria n (proper noun, genitive Pierias or (optionally with an article) Pieria)

  1. Pieria (a regional unit of the administrative region of Central Macedonia, in north-central Greece)
  2. (historical) Pieria (a Roman province of the region of Syria, in modern Turkey)

Declension
Declension of Pieria [sg-only, neuter, toponym]
singular
def. noun
nominative das Pieria
genitive des Pierias, Pieria1
dative dem Pieria
accusative das Pieria

1Optionally with an article.

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πιερία (Piería).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Pīeria f sg (genitive Pīeriae); first declension

  1. An ancient district of Macedonia, in modern Greece
  2. (historical) Pieria (a Roman province of the region of Syria, in modern Turkey)

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Pīeria
Genitive Pīeriae
Dative Pīeriae
Accusative Pīeriam
Ablative Pīeriā
Vocative Pīeria
  • Pīericus

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

Portuguese

Proper noun

Pieria f

  1. Pieria (a regional unit of the administrative region of Central Macedonia, in north-central Greece)
  2. (historical) Pieria (a Roman province of the region of Syria, in modern Turkey)
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