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Eritrea.

Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)

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name/eʁiˈtʁeː.a/
  1. Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea)

    neuter · proper-noun
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Italian (l')Eritrea, first used in Italian as an ellipsis of la Colonia eritrea (“Italian Eritrea”, literally “the Erythraean colony”), from eritrea, feminine of eritreo (“Erythraean (of or relating to the Erythraean Sea)”), from Latin erythraeus (“reddish”), from Ancient Greek ἐρυθρός (eruthrós, “red”).

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