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Eritrea

  • /ˌɛɹɪˈtɹeɪ.ə/ UK
  • /ˌɛɹɪˈtɹiː.ə/ UK
  • /ˌɛɹɪˈtɹɛjə/ British, Southern, Standard
  • /ˌɛɹɪˈtɹɪjə/ British, Southern, Standard
  • /ˌɛɹɪˈtɹeɪ.ə/ US
  • /ˌɛɹɪˈtɹi.ə/ US
  • /ˌeɹəˈtɹæɪ.ə/ Australia, New Zealand
  • /ˌeɹəˈtɹiː.ə/ Australia, New Zealand
  • /ˌɛɾɪˈtɾe.ə/ Scotland
  • /ˌɛɾɪˈtɾi.ə/ Scotland
  • /ˌɛɾɪˈtɾeː.ə/ Wales
  • /ˌɛɾɪˈtɾiː.ə/ Wales

Rhymes with -eɪə, -iːə

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Italian (l')Eritrea, first used in Italian as an ellipsis of la Colonia eritrea (“Italian Eritrea”, literally “the Erythraean colony”), from eritrea, feminine of eritreo (“Erythraean (of or relating to the Erythraean Sea)”), from Latin erythraeus (“reddish”), from Ancient Greek ἐρυθρός (eruthrós, “red”).

proper noun

  1. The modern State of Eritrea (since the 1990s). Close to the border with Eritrea, its ethereal, Martian landscape sits within the Danakil Depression.
  2. historical A former province of or in union with Ethiopia.
  3. historical, from 1890 A former colony of Italy.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: ethiopia, eritrean, yemen, ethiopian, asmara, spain, ecuador, country, equatorial, italian eritrea, abyssinia, egypt, djibouti, kenya, east africa, south sudan

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name country in Eastern Africa

EspañolEritrea
한국어에리트레아 Eriteurea
日本語エリトリア Eritoria
हिन्दीइरिट्रिया iriṭriyā
KiswahiliEritrea
PortuguêsEritreia
FrançaisÉrythrée
DeutschEritrea
ItalianoEritrea
ΕλληνικάΕρυθραία Erythraía
RomânăEritreea
РусскийЭритре́я Eritréja
Tiếng ViệtÊ-ri-tơ-rê-a
العربيةإِرِتْرِيَا ʔiritriyā
עבריתאֶרִיתְרֵאָה eritre'a

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@misc{eritrea_2026,
  title = {Eritrea},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/eritrea},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}