English

Proper noun

Edessa

1. A city in Greece, capital in Pella Prefecture, in periphery of Central Macedonia.
2. (historical) Ancient city in northwestern Mesopotamia, the capital of Osroene, on the site of modern Şanlıurfa in Turkey.

Synonyms

• (city in Mesopotamia): Şanlıurfa, Urfa

Translations

See also

• Edessa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἔδεσσα ‎(Édessa).

Proper noun

Edessa f ‎(genitive Edessae); first declension

1. Edessa, Şanlıurfa (capital of Osroene, city in modern Turkey)
2. Edessa (city in Greece)

Declension

First declension, with locative.

References

• Edessa in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Edessa”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.