Thermopylae

English

Etymology

From Latin Thermopylae, from Ancient Greek Θερμοπύλαι (Thermopúlai).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /θɚˈmɑpɪli/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /θəˈmɒpɪli/
• Hyphenation: Ther‧mop‧y‧lae

Proper noun

Thermopylae

1. A narrow pass on the east-central coast of Greece adjacent to the Maliakos Gulf, northwest of Athens. Its name is derived from its hot sulphur springs. It was the site of the Battle of Thermopylae, at which the Spartan King Leonidas stood off, for a time, the Persian armies of Xerxes.

   Synonym: Hot Gates

Translations

narrow pass in eastern Greece

• Armenian: Թերմոպիլե (hy) (Tʻermopile)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 温泉关

• Danish: Thermopylæ
• French: Thermopyles (fr)
• German: Thermopylen
• Greek: Θερμοπύλες (el) f pl (Thermopýles)

  Ancient: Θερμοπύλαι f pl (Thermopúlai)

• Icelandic: Laugaskarð n
• Irish: Tearmápalae m, Bearnas Thearmápalae m
• Italian: Termopili f pl
• Japanese: テルモピュライ (terumopyurai)
• Latin: Thermopylae f pl
• Marathi: थर्मोपाय्ले (tharmopāyle)
• Polish: Termopile (pl) f pl
• Portuguese: Termópilas f pl
• Russian: Фермопи́лы pl (Fermopíly)
• Spanish: Termópilas f pl

Further reading

• Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)[1]
• Fictional Portayals[2]

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Θερμοπύλαι (Thermopúlai).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /tʰerˈmo.py.lae̯/, [t̪ʰɛrˈmɔpʏɫ̪äe̯]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /terˈmo.pi.le/, [t̪erˈmɔːpile]

Proper noun

Thermopylae f pl (genitive Thermopylārum); first declension

1. Thermopylae (a pass in Greece)

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, plural only.

	plural
nominative	Thermopylae
genitive	Thermopylārum
dative	Thermopylīs
accusative	Thermopylās
ablative	Thermopylīs
vocative	Thermopylae
locative	Thermopylīs

Descendants

• → English: Thermopylae

Further reading

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