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Catachrysea

Catachrysea proper noun: dahab (a town in South Sinai governorate, Egypt).

Proper noun

Catachrysea

  1. Dahab (a town in South Sinai governorate, Egypt)

Origin of Catachrysea

Learned borrowing from Latin Catachrysea, from Koine Greek Καταχρύσεα (Katakhrúsea), a calque of Biblical Hebrew דִ֥י זָהָֽב (dî zāhāḇ).

Questions about Catachrysea

What does Catachrysea mean?
Catachrysea means dahab (a town in South Sinai governorate, Egypt).
What part of speech is Catachrysea?
Catachrysea is a proper noun.

Words near Catachrysea in the dictionary

  1. catachrestic
  2. catachrestical
  3. catachrestically
  4. catachronism
  5. catachronisms
  6. Catachrysea
  7. catachthonian
  8. cataclases
  9. cataclasis
  10. cataclasite
  11. cataclasites

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