Atropatene

From Ancient Greek Ἀτροπατηνή (Atropatēnḗ).

Atropatene

1. (historical) An ancient kingdom established in the 4th century BC in modern-day Iranian Azerbaijan by the satrap Atropates.
2. a satrapy of later Parthian and Sasanian empires; Aturpatakan; Adurbadagan; Atrapatakan

• Atropatenid
• Media Atropatene

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aː.tro.paˈteː.neː/, [äːt̪rɔpäˈt̪eːneː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.tro.paˈte.ne/, [ät̪ropäˈt̪ɛːne]

Ātropatēnē f sg (genitive Ātropatēnēs); first declension

1. Atropatene (ancient kingdom)
2. (New Latin) Azerbaijan (modern country)

First-declension noun (Greek-type), with locative, singular only.

• (modern country) Adrabigania, Azerbaigiania

• “Atropatene”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Atropatene in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Borrowed from Latin Ātropatēnē. Doublet of Azerbaijão.

Atropatene f

1. Atropatene (an ancient kingdom in Persia)