Ἰλλυρίς (Illyris)

Ἰλλυρίς means “Illyria — the land of the Illyrians”.

Ancient Greek word, found 79 times in the texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Demetrius 53.4: ἀπέλιπε δὲ γενεὰν ὁ Δημήτριος Ἀντίγονον μὲν ἐκ Φίλας καὶ Στρατονίκην, δύο δὲ Δημητρίους, τὸν μὲν Λεπτόν, ἐξ Ἰλλυρίδος γυναικός, τὸν δὲ ἄρξαντα Κυρήνης ἐκ Πτολεμαΐδος, ἐκ δὲ Δηϊδαμείας Ἀλέξανδρον, ὃς ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ κατεβίωσε. λέγετα …

Plutarch, De liberis educandis 20: … ἶναι. πειρατέον οὖν εἰς τὸν τῶν τέκνων σωφρονισμὸν πάνθʼ ὅσα προσῆκεν ἐπιτηδεύειν, ζηλώσαντας Εὐρυδίκην, ἥτις Ἰλλυρὶς οὖσα καὶ τριβάρβαρος, ὅμως ἐπὶ τῇ μαθήσει τῶν τέκνων ὀψὲ τῆς ἡλικίας ἥψατο παιδείας. ἱκανῶς δʼ αὐτῆς τὴν φιλο …

Arrian, Cynegeticus 23.2: ἀλλὰ τὰς ἐλάφους, ἔνθα τὰ πεδία εὐήλατα, ἐν μὲν Μυσοῖς καὶ ἐν Γέταις καὶ ἐν Σκυθίᾳ καὶ ἀνὰ τὴν Ἰλλυρίδα, ἀφʼ ἵππων τῶν Σκυθικῶν καὶ Ἰλλυρικῶν διώκουσιν· οὗτοι γὰρ ἐλαύνεσθαι μὲν τὰ πρῶτα οὐκ ἀγαθοί, ἀλλὰ κἂν πάνυ …

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.