Bretanya
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[edit] Catalan
[edit] Etymology
From Latin Britannia (“Britain”).
[edit] Proper noun
Bretanya f.
- Brittany (region of northwest France)
- (historical) Brittania (Great Britain and Brittany)
[edit] Usage notes
The relationship between Great Britain and Brittany (“Little Britain”) is clearer in Catalan than in English, at the cost of lacking a one word synonym for Great Britain. To refer to Roman Britain in Catalan, a later reborrowing from the same Latin origin, Britània is used.
[edit] Derived terms
- Gran Bretanya (“Great Britain”)
[edit] Related terms
- Britània (“Roman Britain”)
