Galatia

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Galatia, from Ancient Greek Γαλατία (Galatía).

Proper noun

Galatia

1. A region of ancient Asia Minor, in what is now central Turkey; a province of ancient Rome.
2. A village in Saline County, Illinois.
3. A minor city in Barton County, Kansas.

Related terms

• Galatians

Translations

region of Asia Minor

• Armenian: Գաղատիա (Gaġatia)
• Catalan: Galàcia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 加拉太 (Jiālātài) (Protestant or secular), 迦拉達／迦拉达 (Jiālādá) (Catholic), 噶拉塔 (Gálātǎ) (Eastern Orthodox)

• Finnish: Galatia (fi)
• French: Galatie (fr) f
• German: Galatien (de) n
• Greek: Γαλατία (el) f (Galatía)

  Ancient Greek: Γαλατία f (Galatía)

• Irish: an Ghaláit f
• Italian: Galazia f
• Korean: 갈라티아 (gallatia)
• Latin: Galatīa f
• Polish: Galacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: Galácia (pt) f
• Romanian: Galatia (ro) f
• Russian: Галатия (ru) f (Galatija)
• Spanish: Galacia f
• Swedish: Galatien (sv) n
• Tagalog: Galasya
• Turkish: Galatya
• Welsh: Galatia f

Hawaiian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌka.laˈkia/, [ˌkɐ.ləˈtiə]

Proper noun

Galatia

1. Galatians (book of the Bible)

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Γᾰλᾰτῐ́ᾱ (Galatíā).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ɡa.laˈtiː.a/, [ɡäɫ̪äˈt̪iːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ɡa.laˈti.a/, [ɡäläˈt̪iːä]

Proper noun

Galatīa f sg (genitive Galatīae); first declension

1. Galatia (region of Anatolia, later a Roman province)

   Holonym: Anatolia

   Meronyms: Ancyra, Pessinus, Rosologiacum, Tavium

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Galatīa
Genitive	Galatīae
Dative	Galatīae
Accusative	Galatīam
Ablative	Galatīā
Vocative	Galatīa
Locative	Galatīae

Related terms

• Galata
• galaticor
• Galaticus

 

Descendants

Descendants

• Italian: Galazia
• → Armenian: Գաղատիա (Gaġatia)
• → Catalan: Galàcia
• → English: Galatia
• → Finnish: Galatia
• → French: Galatie
• → German: Galatien
• → Irish: an Ghaláit
• → Polish: Galacja
• → Portuguese: Galácia
• → Romanian: Galatia
• → Russian: Галатия (Galatija)
• → Spanish: Galacia
• → Swedish: Galatien
• → Turkish: Galatia

References

• “Galatia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Galatia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.