Thermopylae

From Latin Thermopylae, from Ancient Greek Θερμοπύλαι (Thermopúlai).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /θɚˈmɑpɪli/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /θəˈmɒpɪli/
• Hyphenation: Ther‧mop‧y‧lae

Thermopylae

1. A narrow pass on the east-central coast of Greece adjacent to the Maliakos Gulf, northwest of Athens. Its name is derived from its hot sulphur springs. It was the site of the Battle of Thermopylae, at which the Spartan King Leonidas stood off, for a time, the Persian armies of Xerxes.

• Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)
• Fictional Portayals

From Ancient Greek Θερμοπύλαι (Thermopúlai).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /tʰerˈmo.py.lae̯/, [t̪ʰɛrˈmɔpʏɫ̪äe̯]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /terˈmo.pi.le/, [t̪erˈmɔːpile]

Thermopylae f pl (genitive Thermopylārum); first declension

1. Thermopylae (a pass in Greece)

First-declension noun, with locative, plural only.

• “Thermopylae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press