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