Germania

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Contents 1 Italian 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Proper noun 1.2.1 Related terms 1.2.2 See also 2 Latin 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Proper noun 2.2.1 Inflection 2.2.2 Related terms 2.2.3 Descendants 2.3 References 3 Romanian 3.1 Proper noun

[edit] Italian

Wikipedia ^it

[edit] Pronunciation

Germània, /dʒerˈmanja/, /dZer"manja/

[edit] Proper noun

Germania f.

1. Germany. Official name: Repubblica Federale Tedesca.

[edit] Related terms

• germanico
• germanio
• germanismo
• germanista
• germanizzare
• germano
• germanofilia
• germanofobia

[edit] See also

• tedesco

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[edit] Latin

[edit] Etymology

The name came into use after Julius Caesar adopted it from a Gallic term for the peoples west of the Rhine that likely meant “neighbor”.^[1][2]

[edit] Proper noun

Germānia (genitive Germāniae); f, first declension

1. Germany, ie. the land of the Germans

[edit] Inflection

nominative	Germānia
genitive	Germāniae
dative	Germāniae
accusative	Germāniam
ablative	Germāniā
vocative	Germānia
locative	Germāniae

[edit] Related terms

• Germānicus

[edit] Descendants

• English: Germany

[edit] References

• Notes:

1. ^ Schulze, Hagen [1998]. Germany: A New History, 4, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
2. ^ "German", The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. Ed. T. F. Hoad. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. Accessed March 4, 2008.

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[edit] Romanian

[edit] Proper noun

Germania f.

1. Germany (Germany)