Ἀχαΐα
γλῶσσα μὲν ἀνόστεος, ὀστέα δὲ θλάττει → angry words are bullets, many words hurt more than swords, one can kill with a word, one can kill with words, pen is mightier than the sword, the pen is mightier than the sword, tongue is not steel, tongue is sharper than any sword, tongue wounds more than a lance, word can hurt, word can kill, words are bullets, words are the greatest weapon, words are the new weapons, words are weapons, words can hurt, words can hurt more than swords, words can kill, words cut deeper than a knife, words cut deeper than any sword
French (Bailly abrégé)
contract. de Ἀχαιΐα;
ας (ἡ) :
l’Achaïe :
1 contrée du Péloponnèse sur le golfe de Corinthe;
2 partie de la Thessalie, appelée aussi Phthiotide;
3 la province romaine d’Achaïe, càd la Grèce sans la Macédoine.
Étymologie: Ἀχαιός.
English (Strong)
of uncertain derivation; Achaia (i.e. Greece), a country of Europe: Achaia.
English (Thayer)
(WH Ἀχαΐα (see Iota)), Ἀχαΐας, ἡ, Achaia;
1. in a restricted sense, the maritime region of northern Peloponnesus.
2. in a broader sense, from 146 B.C.> on (yet see Dict. of Geog. under the word), a Roman province embracing all Greece except Thessaly. So in the N. T.: B. D. under the word.)
Russian (Dvoretsky)
Ἀχᾱΐα: ион. Ἀχαιΐη и Ἀχαΐη (ᾰχ) ἡ Ахайя или Ахея
1) страна в сев. Пелопоннесе Thuc., Xen.;
2) = Φθιῶτις, область в Фессалии Her., Diod.;
3) римск. провинция, охватывавшая среднюю Грецию и Пелопоннес Plut.
