Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Εὐρώπα ‎(Eurṓpa) (Doric)
• Εὐρωπία ‎(Eurōpía) (verse)

Proper noun

Εὐρώπη • ‎(Eurṓpē) f ‎(genitive Εὐρώπης); first declension

1. Europa, A Phoenician princess abducted to Crete by Zeus, in Greek mythology.
2. Europe, a continent

Inflection

The personal name rarely takes a definite article.

Descendants

• Greek: Ευρώπη ‎(Evrópi)
• → Latin: Europa (see there for further descendants)

References

• Εὐρώπη in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Εὐρώπη in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,010