Larissa
English
Alternative forms
- Larisa (the city; the female name)
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Λάρισσα (Lárissa).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ləˈɹɪsə/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Proper noun
Larissa
- 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.
- A city in western Asia Minor, close to the ancient Greek city of Smyrna and to the contemporary Turkish city of Menemen.
- (Greek mythology) A nymph with a local cult near the city of Larissa.
- A female given name from Ancient Greek (after the mythological character and a 4th century Greek Orthodox martyr).
- (astronomy) A moon of Neptune.
Related terms
- female given name: Lara
Translations
city in Greece
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Further reading
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /la.ʁi.sa/
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [laˈʁɪsa]
Audio (file)
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Λάρισσα (Lárissa).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /laːˈris.sa/, [ɫ̪äːˈrɪs̠ːä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /laˈris.sa/, [läˈrisːä]
Declension
First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
Case | Singular |
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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
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