Elea

American  

[ee-lee-uh] / ˈi li ə /

noun

1. an ancient Greek city in SW Italy, on the coast of Lucania.

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Elea British  

/ ˈiːlɪə /

noun

1. (in ancient Italy) a Greek colony on the Tyrrhenian coast of Lucana

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Example Sentences

“There’s been a lot of work, a lot of meetings that went into it, and when we finally pulled it off, we had no idea how it would go,” said Columbia graduate student Elea Sun.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 25, 2024

In 2006 the 23-year-old entrepreneur struck out with his own hedge fund, Elea Capital Management.

From The Guardian • Dec. 17, 2015

Elea met its demise in 2007, when Mr. Shkreli made a $2.6 million bet that the stock market would decline.

From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2015

Elea Capital Management, by his own description, wasn’t terribly successful.

From BusinessWeek • Apr. 17, 2014

For the infinite had already begun to gnaw at the roots of Western thought, thanks to Zeno of Elea, a philosopher reckoned by his contemporaries to be the most annoying man in the West.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife