illyria
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.17 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A vaguely-defined geographic region in Southeastern Europe in the western part of the Balkan Peninsula, approximately coincident with modern Albania.
name
A much larger former province of the Roman Empire, covering the whole of Dalmatia and Pannonia, existing from 27 BC to c. 70 AD and reconstituted in 293 AD by Diocletian.
Etymology
From Latin Illyria, from Ancient Greek Ἰλλυρία (Illuría), which may be from Illyrian *Hullurio (“(place or tribe) of the serpent”), from Proto-Indo-European *udlós. This is supported by the attestation of Hílurios by Plautus in Menaechmi (200s BC).
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Illyria, Ἰλλυρία, *Hullurio, *udrós