Meaning of Europa | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Europa (several characters, most notably a Phoenician princess abducted to Crete by Zeus)
   Greek, declension-1
2. Europe (a continent located west of Asia and north of Africa)
   declension-1
3. Europa (a moon in Jupiter)
   New-Latin, declension-1
4. Europa (52 Europa, a main belt asteroid; not to be confused with the Jovian moon)
   New-Latin, declension-1

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Examples

“Brevis Europae descriptio.—Europa terminos habet, ab oriente Tanain et Maeotida et Pontum; a meridie reliqua nostri maris; ab occidente Atlanticum; a septentrione Britannicum oceanum. (genitive and nomitive cases)”

A brief description of Europe.—Europe's borders, on the east are Tanais, Maeotida, and Pontus; on the south, the rest of our sea; on the west, the side of the Atlantic; north of the British Ocean.

“Quartus vero et magnus Europae sinus ab Hellesponto incipiens Maeotis ostio terminatur. Nam arctum mare inter Europam et Asiam in angustias septem stadiorum interfluens coarctatur; quas angustias Hellespontum dicunt, ubi Xerxes Persidis rex aggregatis navibus ponteque constructo exercitum duxit. (genitive and accusative cases)”

The fourth and great bay of Europe, beginning from the Hellespont, terminates at the mouth of the Maeotis. For the narrow sea flowing between Europe and Asia is confined to a narrow strip of seven furlongs; which they call the narrows of the Hellespont, where Xerxes, king of the Persians, assembled his ships and led his army under a bridge.

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