Abdera

See also: Abderą

English

location map of Abdera

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἄβδηρα (Ábdēra).

Proper noun

Abdera

1. An ancient city in Thrace, in modern Greece
2. A modern municipality of Xanthi, in the administrative region of Thrace, Greece.

Derived terms

• Abderian
• abderian
• abderitic
• abderitism

Translations

town

• Finnish: Abdera (fi), Avdira
• French: Abdère (fr) m or f
• German: Abdera (de) n
• Greek: Άβδηρα (el) n pl (Ávdira)

  Ancient Greek: Ἄβδηρα n pl (Ábdēra)

• Italian: Abdera (it) f
• Latin: Abdēra (la) n pl and f
• Polish: Abdera (pl) f
• Portuguese: Abdera f
• Swedish: Abdera

Anagrams

• abrade, abread

German

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἄβδηρα (Ábdēra).

Proper noun

Abdera n (proper noun, genitive Abderas or (optionally with an article) Abdera)

1. Abdera (an ancient city in Thrace, in modern Greece)
2. Abdera (a modern municipality of Xanthi, in the administrative region of Thrace, Greece).

Declension

Declension of Abdera [sg-only, neuter, toponym]

	singular
	def.	noun
nominative	das	Abdera
genitive	des	Abderas, Abdera1
dative	dem	Abdera
accusative	das	Abdera

¹Optionally with an article.

Derived terms

• Abderit
• abderitisch

Further reading

• Abdera on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• “Abdera” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Abdera” in Duden online
• “Abdera” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon

Italian

Etymology

From Latin Abdēra, from Ancient Greek Ἄβδηρα (Ábdēra).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /abˈdɛ.ra/
• Rhymes: -ɛra
• Hyphenation: Ab‧dè‧ra

Proper noun

Abdera f

1. Abdera (an ancient city in Thrace, in modern Greece)
2. Abdera (a modern municipality of Xanthi, in the administrative region of Thrace, Greece)

Related terms

• abderita

Further reading

• Abdera (Tracia) on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

Anagrams

• abrade, badare, baderà

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἄβδηρα (Ábdēra).

Pronunciation 1

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /abˈdeː.ra/, [äbˈd̪eːrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /abˈde.ra/, [äbˈd̪ɛːrä]

Proper noun

Abdēra n or f (variously declined, genitive Abdērōrum or Abderae); second declension, first declension

1. Abdera (an ancient city in Thrace, in modern Greece)
2. Abdera (a modern municipality of Xanthi, in the administrative region of Thrace, Greece)
3. (figuratively, by extension) Chelm, cloud-cuckoo-land

Declension

Second declension (neuter plural) or first declension (feminine singular) noun, with locative.

	plural
nominative	Abdēra
genitive	Abdērōrum Abdērae
dative	Abdērīs Abdērae
accusative	Abdēra Abdēram
ablative	Abdērīs Abdērā
vocative	Abdēra
locative	Abdērīs Abdērae

Alternative forms

• Abdērum n

Derived terms

• abdērītānus
• Abdērītēs

Pronunciation 2

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /abˈdeː.raː/, [äbˈd̪eːräː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /abˈde.ra/, [äbˈd̪ɛːrä]

Proper noun

Abdērā f

1. ablative of Abdēra

References

• “Abdera”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Abdera”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Abdera in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Abdera in D. P. Simpson, Cassell's Latin Dictionary, Wiley Publishing, 1968

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἄβδηρα (Ábdēra).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /abˈdɛ.ra/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛra
• Syllabification: Ab‧de‧ra

Proper noun

Abdera f

1. Abdera (an ancient city in Thrace, in modern Greece)
2. Abdera (a modern municipality of Xanthi, in the administrative region of Thrace, Greece)

   miasto Abdera ― the city of Abdera

   mieszkaniec Abdery ― resident of Abdera

Declension

Declension of Abdera

	singular
nominative	Abdera
genitive	Abdery
dative	Abderze
accusative	Abderę
instrumental	Abderą
locative	Abderze
vocative	Abdero

Related terms

adjective

• abderycki

 

nouns

• abderyta
• abderytka

 

Further reading

• Abdera in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Proper noun

Abdera f

1. Abdera (an ancient city in Thrace, in modern Greece)
2. Abdera (a modern municipality of Xanthi, in the administrative region of Thrace, Greece)