Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /eθiopía/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /eθiopía/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /eθiopía/

Proper noun

Αἰθιοπίᾱ • ‎(Aithiopíā) f ‎(genitive Αἰθιοπίας); first declension

1. Ethiopia

Usage notes

Herodotus' Αἰθιοπία is the "land of black people", corresponding to the known parts of Africa east of the Nile, i.e. the Horn of Africa and eastern Sudan. In the Septuagint, Αἰθιοπία translates כוש, the Biblical term for "black Africa".

Inflection

Derived terms

• Αἰθιοπικός ‎(Aithiopikós)
• Αἰθιόπιος ‎(Aithiópios)
• Αἰθιοπίς ‎(Aithiopís)

Descendants

• English: Ethiopia, and the name of Ethiopia in most languages worldwide via either Greek or Latin
• Ge'ez: ኢትዮጵያ ‎(ʾĪtyōṗṗyā)
• Greek: Αιθιοπία ‎(Aithiopía)
• Latin: Aethiopia
• Old Armenian: Եթովպիա ‎(Etʿovpia)

References

• Αἰθιοπία in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Αἰθιοπία in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «Αἰθιοπία» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,010