Echinades

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἐχῑνᾰ́δες (Ekhīnắdes, toponym).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /eˈkʰiː.na.deːs/, [ɛˈkʰiːnäd̪eːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eˈki.na.des/, [eˈkiːnäd̪es]

Proper noun

Echīnadēs f pl (genitive Echīnadum); third declension

1. Echinades (islands in the Ionian Sea)
   • c. 43 CE, Pomponius Mela, A Description of the World 2.7.10:

     in Ionio Prote, […]; in Epiro Echinades et olim Plotae nunc Strophades

     In the Ionian Sea, […]; in Epirus, there are Echinades and formerly Plotae, now Strophades

   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 2.87:

     Echinades insulae ab Acheloo amne congestae

     the islands Echinades formed by the river Achelous

Inflection

Third-declension noun, with locative, plural only.

	plural
nominative	Echīnadēs
genitive	Echīnadum
dative	Echīnadibus
accusative	Echīnadēs
ablative	Echīnadibus
vocative	Echīnadēs
locative	Echīnadibus

Related terms

• echīnus
• Echīnus

References

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