Érythrée
See also: Erythrée
French
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editEtymology
editFrom Latin erythraeus, as it was used in Erythraeum mare (“the Erythraean Sea”), from Ancient Greek ἐρυθρός (eruthrós, “red”). The second sense is a semantic loan from Italian l'Eritrea, first used in Italian as an ellipsis of la Colonia eritrea (“Italian Eritrea”, literally “the Erythraean colony”).
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editProper noun
editl’Érythrée f
- (obsolete or historical) Ellipsis of la mer Érythrée (“the Erythraean Sea”).
- 1730, Traitez géographiques et historiques[1], pages 40–41:
- En second lieu, si l’on dit que les Tyriens se servirent du même expédient dont commença à user Cléopatre à la Bataille d’Actium, & que ces Vaisseaux furent transportez à force de Bras, & d’Argent, de la mer Mediterranée dans l’Erythrée, l’intervalle de l’une à l’autre n’étant que de trois cens stades; la chose ne paroîtra pas non plus incroyable.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1886, Géographie de Strabon[2], pages 95–96:
- [...] il se demande [...] comment il a pu se faire au contraire que l’Érythrée ait conservé son niveau sans baisser.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea) [from 20th c.]
Usage notes
edit- In older French practice, capital letters did not take diacritics, so É becomes E. This was mostly done because of technical constraints. Formal orthotypography maintains the diacritics.
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