# Abdera
## English
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἄβδηρα (Ábdēra).

### Proper noun

Abdera
* An ancient city in Thrace, in modern Greece
* A modern municipality of Xanthi, in the administrative region of Thrace, Greece.

#### Derived terms

* Abderian
* abderian
* abderitic
* abderitism

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* abrade, abread

## German
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἄβδηρα (Ábdēra).

### Proper noun

Abdera n (proper noun, genitive Abderas or (optionally with an article) Abdera)
* Abdera (an ancient city in Thrace, in modern Greece)
* Abdera (a modern municipality of Xanthi, in the administrative region of Thrace, Greece).

#### Declension

$^1$Optionally with an article.

#### Derived terms

* Abderit
* abderitisch

### Further reading

* Abdera on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{de}$
* “Abdera” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
* “Abdera” in Duden online
* “Abdera” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin Abdēra, from Ancient Greek Ἄβδηρα (Ábdēra).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /abˈdɛ.ra/
* Rhymes: -ɛra
* Hyphenation: Ab‧dè‧ra

### Proper noun

Abdera f
* Abdera (an ancient city in Thrace, in modern Greece)
* Abdera (a modern municipality of Xanthi, in the administrative region of Thrace, Greece)

#### Related terms

* abderita

### References

* ↑ Abdera in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

### Further reading

* Abdera (Tracia) on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{it}$

### Anagrams

* abrade, badare, baderà

## Latin
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἄβδηρα (Ábdēra).

### Pronunciation 1

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /abˈdeː.ra/, [äbˈd̪eːrä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /abˈde.ra/, [äbˈd̪ɛːrä]

#### Proper noun

Abdēra n or f (variously declined, genitive Abdērōrum or Abderae); second declension, first declension
* Abdera (an ancient city in Thrace, in modern Greece)
* Abdera (a modern municipality of Xanthi, in the administrative region of Thrace, Greece)
* (figuratively, by extension) Chelm, cloud-cuckoo-land

##### Declension

Second declension (neuter plural) or first declension (feminine singular) noun, with locative.

##### Alternative forms

* Abdērum n

##### Derived terms

* abdērītānus
* Abdērītēs

### Pronunciation 2

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /abˈdeː.raː/, [äbˈd̪eːräː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /abˈde.ra/, [äbˈd̪ɛːrä]

#### Proper noun

Abdērā f
* ablative of Abdēra

### References

* “Abdera”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “Abdera”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* Abdera in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Abdera in D. P. Simpson, Cassell's Latin Dictionary, Wiley Publishing, 1968

## Polish
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἄβδηρα (Ábdēra).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /abˈdɛ.ra/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛra
* Syllabification: Ab‧de‧ra

### Proper noun

Abdera f
* Abdera (an ancient city in Thrace, in modern Greece)
* Abdera (a modern municipality of Xanthi, in the administrative region of Thrace, Greece)
    miasto Abdera ― the city of Abdera
    mieszkaniec Abdery ― resident of Abdera

#### Related terms

* abderycki
* abderyta
* abderytka

### Further reading

* Abdera in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Proper noun

Abdera f
* Abdera (an ancient city in Thrace, in modern Greece)
* Abdera (a modern municipality of Xanthi, in the administrative region of Thrace, Greece)