Piraeus

See also: Piræus

English

Alternative forms

• Piræus

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Πειραιεύς (Peiraieús).

Proper noun

Piraeus

1. A municipality and port in Greece, part of Athens agglomeration, the chief port of Athens, located on the Saronic Gulf.
2. A regional unit of Greece

Related terms

• Piraic

Translations

city

• Albanian: Pire m (indefinite), Pireu m (definite)
• Armenian: Պիրեյոս (Pireyos)
• Aromanian: Pirei
• Azerbaijani: Pirey
• Basque: Pireo
• Belarusian: Пірэй m (Pirej)
• Bulgarian: Пирея f (Pireja)
• Catalan: Pireu m
• Czech: Pireus m
• Danish: Piræus
• Dutch: Piraeus
• Esperanto: Pireo
• Estonian: Pireus
• Finnish: Pireus
• French: Le Pirée (fr) m
• Galician: O Pireo m
• Georgian: პირეოსი (ṗireosi)
• German: Piräus n
• Greek: Πειραιάς (el) m (Peiraiás)

  Ancient Greek: Πειραιεύς m (Peiraieús)

• Hungarian: Pireusz (hu)
• Italian: Il Pireo m
• Latin: Piraeus, Piraeum
• Latvian: Pireja f
• Lithuanian: Pirėjas m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Pireus

  Nynorsk: Pireus

• Polish: Pireus (pl) m
• Portuguese: Pireu m
• Romanian: Pireu n
• Russian: Пире́й m (Piréj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Пиреј m

  Roman: Pirej (sh) m

• Slovak: Pireus m
• Slovene: Pirej (sl) m
• Spanish: Pireo m
• Swedish: Pireus
• Turkish: Pire
• Ukrainian: Піре́й m (Piréj)

Anagrams

• Perusia, raise up, spuriae, upraise