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eritrea

UK/ˌɛɹɪˈtɹeɪ.ə/US/ˌɛɹɪˈtɹeɪ.ə/
nounC1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechmostly written

Eritrea is a Red Sea country north of Ethiopia, capital Asmara. The coast of Eritrea.

It became independent in 1993 after thirty years of war, and left Ethiopia landlocked. Asmara in Eritrea is a world heritage site for its Italian modernist architecture.

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Definitions of eritrea

  1. 1nouneritreaRed Sea country north of Ethiopia, capital Asmara.C1

    “Eritrea has a long coast and very few ports.”

eritrea is a country.

Where it comes from

  1. Italian

    Eritrea

  2. English

    Eritrea

  3. English, today

    eritrea

Built from

  • Colonia eritrea · Italian — Italian Eritrea (literally “the Erythraean colony”)
  • eritreo · Italian — Erythraean (of or relating to the Erythraean Sea)

Eritrea Borrowed from Italian Eritrea. Italian Eritrea, first used in Italian as an ellipsis of 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 (“red”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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