Achais

Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek Ἀχαία (Akhaía).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aˈkʰaː.is/, [äˈkʰäːɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈka.is/, [äˈkäːis]

Proper noun

Achāis f sg (genitive Achāidis or Achāidos); third declension

1. Achaea, a province in the northern part of Peloponnesus

Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant), singular only.

	singular
nominative	Achāis
genitive	Achāidis Achāidos
dative	Achāidī
accusative	Achāida
ablative	Achāide
vocative	Achāis Achāi1

¹In poetry.

References

• “Achais”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press