Larissa

English

Alternative forms

  • Larisa (the city; the female name)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Λάρισσα (Lárissa).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ləˈɹɪsə/
    • (file)

Proper noun

Larissa

  1. A city in north-central Greece, the capital of Thessaly.
    • 1951 November, 'Pausanias', “To Greece by the "Simplon-Orient Express"”, in Railway Magazine, page 731:
      Larissa, 107 miles from Salonica, is reached at 10.33, and there is a halt of 17 min. while vendors of oranges, cheese, meat on skewers, sweetmeats, and Turkish coffee do a brisk trade.
  2. A city in western Asia Minor, close to the ancient Greek city of Smyrna and to the contemporary Turkish city of Menemen.
  3. (Greek mythology) A nymph with a local cult near the city of Larissa.
  4. A female given name from Ancient Greek (after the mythological character and a 4th century Greek Orthodox martyr).
  5. (astronomy) A moon of Neptune.
  • female given name: Lara

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Finnish

Proper noun

Larissa

  1. inessive singular of Lari

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English Larissa in the 20th century.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /la.ʁi.sa/

Proper noun

Larissa

  1. a female given name, equivalent to English Larissa

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian Лари́са (Larísa) in the 20th century.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [laˈʁɪsa]
  • (file)

Proper noun

Larissa

  1. a female given name, equivalent to English Larissa

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Λάρισσα (Lárissa).

Proper noun

Larissa f

  1. a female given name, equivalent to English Larissa
  2. Larissa (a city, the regional capital of Thessaly, Greece)

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Λάρισσα (Lárissa).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Lārissa f sg (genitive Lārissae); first declension

  1. Larissa

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Lārissa
Genitive Lārissae
Dative Lārissae
Accusative Lārissam
Ablative Lārissā
Vocative Lārissa
Locative Lārissae

References

  • Larissa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Larissa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /laˈɾi.sɐ/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /laˈɾi.sa/

Proper noun

Larissa f

  1. a female given name, equivalent to English Larissa
  2. Larissa (a city, the regional capital of Thessaly, Greece)

Turkish

Proper noun

Larissa

  1. (astronomy) Larissa
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