Pyrenaeus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πῡρηναῖος (Pūrēnaîos), from Πῡρήνη (Pūrḗnē, “Pyrene”) + -αῖος (-aîos).

By surface analysis, Pȳrēn(ē) (“Pyrene”) +‎ -aeus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pyː.reːˈnae̯.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [pi.reˈnɛː.us]

Pȳrēnaeus (feminine Pȳrēnaea, neuter Pȳrēnaeum); first/second-declension adjective

1. Pyrenean
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.1:

     Aquītānia ā Garumnā flūmine ad Pȳrēnaeōs montēs et eam partem Ōceanī quae est ad Hispāniam pertinet...

     Aquitania extends from the Garonne river to the Pyrenaean mountains and that part of the ocean which reaches Iberia...

First/second-declension adjective.

• ⇒ English: Pyrenaean, Pyrenean
• ⇒ French: pyrénéen
• Middle French: pyrenee
  • French: pyrénée
• Occitan: pirenèu
• Portuguese: pireneu
• Spanish: pirineo

Pȳrēnaeus m sg (genitive Pȳrēnaeī); second declension

1. Pyrenees; ellipsis of Pȳrēnaeus mōns
   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 26.43.8:

     […] haec una inter Pyrenaeum et Gades statio […]

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   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 27.19.1:

     Hasdrubal iam ante quam dimicaret pecunia rapta elephantisque praemissis, quam plurimos poterat de fuga excipiens praeter Tagum flumen ad Pyrenaeum tendit.

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   • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca Minor, Consolatio ad Helviam:

     Pyrenaeus Germanorum transitus non inhibuit

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Second-declension noun, singular only.

• “Pyrenaeus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Pȳrēnæus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Pyrenaeus”, in The Perseus Project (1999), Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]
• “Pyrenaeus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers