Pieria

See also: pieriä

English

Proper noun

Pieria

2. A regional unit of the administrative region of Central Macedonia, in north-central Greece.
4. (historical) A Roman province of the region of Syria, in modern Turkey.

Translations

Greek prefecture

• Arabic: بييريا
• Bulgarian: Пиерия (Pierija)
• Dutch: Piëria
• Esperanto: Pierio
• French: Piérie (fr) f
• German: Pieria
• Greek: Πιερία (el) f (Piería)
• Italian: Pieria f
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: Pieria f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Pieria

  Nynorsk: Piería

• Portuguese: Pieria f
• Romanian: Pieria f
• Russian: Пие́ри́я f (Pijéríja)
• Spanish: Pieria
• Swedish: Pieria

German

Proper noun

Pieria n (proper noun, genitive Pierias or (optionally with an article) Pieria)

1. Pieria (a regional unit of the administrative region of Central Macedonia, in north-central Greece)
2. (historical) Pieria (a Roman province of the region of Syria, in modern Turkey)

Declension

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

	singular
	def.	noun
nominative	das	Pieria
genitive	des	Pierias, Pieria1
dative	dem	Pieria
accusative	das	Pieria

¹Optionally with an article.

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πιερία (Piería).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /piːˈe.ri.a/, [piːˈɛriä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /piˈe.ri.a/, [piˈɛːriä]

Proper noun

Pīeria f sg (genitive Pīeriae); first declension

1. An ancient district of Macedonia, in modern Greece
2. (historical) Pieria (a Roman province of the region of Syria, in modern Turkey)

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Pīeria
genitive	Pīeriae
dative	Pīeriae
accusative	Pīeriam
ablative	Pīeriā
vocative	Pīeria

Related terms

• Pīericus

References

• “Pieria”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Pieria in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Pieria”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Portuguese

Proper noun

Pieria f

1. Pieria (a regional unit of the administrative region of Central Macedonia, in north-central Greece)
2. (historical) Pieria (a Roman province of the region of Syria, in modern Turkey)