Hesperia

//hɛˈspɪəɹi.ə// name

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Literally "western land", a term poetically applied by Ancient Greeks to Italy and by Romans to the Iberian Peninsula and Western Africa.
  2. 2
    One of the Hesperides. Greek
  3. 3
    69 Hesperia, a main belt asteroid.
  4. 4
    A city in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
  5. 5
    A village in Newaygo County and Oceana County, Michigan, United States.

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""Far away / there lies a place (Greeks style the land to-day / Hesperia) fruitful and of ancient fame / and strong in arms. OEnotrian folk, they say, / first tilled the soil. Italian is the name / borne by the later race, with Italus who came.""

Etymology

From Latin Hesperia, from Ancient Greek Ἑσπερία (Hespería).

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