Cappadocia

English

Etymology

From Latin Cappadocia, from Ancient Greek Καππαδοκία (Kappadokía), from Old Persian 𐎣𐎫𐎱𐎬𐎢𐎣 (k-t-p-tu-u-k /⁠katpatuka⁠/).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kæpəˈdoʊʃə]

• Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

Cappadocia

1. An ancient region in central Asia Minor, in present-day Turkey.

Derived terms

• Cappadocian

Translations

ancient region

• Afrikaans: Kappadosië
• Albanian: Kapadokia ?
• Arabic: قَبَاذُق ? (qabāḏuq), قَبَادُوقِيَّة ? (qabādūqiyya)
• Armenian: Կապադովկիա (Kapadovkia)

  Old Armenian: Գամիրք (Gamirkʻ), Կապադովկիա (Kapadovkia)

• Azerbaijani: Kapadokiya
• Belarusian: Кападо́кія ? (Kapadókija)
• Breton: Kappadokia ?
• Bulgarian: Кападокия f (Kapadokija)
• Catalan: Capadòcia f
• Chuvash: Каппадоки (Kappadok̬i)
• Coptic: ⲕⲁⲡⲡⲁⲇⲟⲕⲓⲁ (kappadokia)
• Czech: Kappadokie f
• Danish: Kappadokien ?
• Dutch: Cappadocië ?
• Estonian: Kapadookia
• Finnish: Kappadokia
• French: Cappadoce (fr) f
• Georgian: კაპადოკია (ḳaṗadoḳia)
• German: Kappadokien (de) n
• Greek: Καππαδοκία (el) f (Kappadokía)

  Ancient: Καππαδοκία f (Kappadokía)

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• Hebrew: קפדוקיה ?
• Hungarian: Kappadókia
• Icelandic: Kappadókía ?
• Irish: an Chapadóic f
• Italian: Cappadocia (it) f
• Kazakh: Қападоқия (Qapadoqiä)
• Latin: Cappadocia f
• Middle Persian: 𐭪𐭯𐭥𐭲𐭪𐭩𐭠𐭩 (kpʿtkyʾy /⁠kappōdakiyā⁠/)
• Old Persian: 𐎣𐎫𐎱𐎬𐎢𐎣 (k-t-p-tu-u-k /⁠katpatuka⁠/)
• Parthian: 𐭊𐭐𐭅𐭕𐭊𐭉𐭀 (kpwtkyʾ /⁠kappōdakiyā⁠/)
• Persian: کاپادوکیه (fa) (kâpâdokye), کاپادوسیه (kâpâdosye)
• Polish: Kapadocja (pl) f
• Portuguese: Capadócia f
• Romanian: Cappadocia (ro) f, Capadocia f, Capadochia f
• Russian: Каппадо́кия (ru) f (Kappadókija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: Kapadokija ?

  Cyrillic: Кападокија ?

• Slovak: Kapadócia f
• Spanish: Capadocia (es) f
• Swedish: Kappadokien (sv) ?
• Thai: แคปพาโดเชีย (káeppaadohchia)
• Turkish: Kapadokya
• Ukrainian: Каппадокі́я ? (Kappadokíja)

Further reading

• Cappadocia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin Cappadocia, from Ancient Greek Καππαδοκία (Kappadokía), from Old Persian 𐎣𐎫𐎱𐎬𐎢𐎣 (k-t-p-tu-u-k /⁠katpatuka⁠/).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kap.paˈdɔ.t͡ʃa/
• Rhymes: -ɔtʃa
• Hyphenation: Cap‧pa‧dò‧cia

Proper noun

Cappadocia f

1. Cappadocia (region in Asia Minor, first a country and then a Roman province)

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Καππαδοκία (Kappadokía), from Old Persian 𐎣𐎫𐎱𐎬𐎢𐎣 (k-t-p-tu-u-k /⁠katpatuka⁠/).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kap.paˈdo.ki.a/, [käpːäˈd̪ɔkiä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kap.paˈdo.t͡ʃi.a/, [käpːäˈd̪ɔːt͡ʃiä]

Proper noun

Cappadocia f sg (genitive Cappadociae); first declension

1. Cappadocia (region in Asia Minor, first a country and then a Roman province)

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Cappadocia
Genitive	Cappadociae
Dative	Cappadociae
Accusative	Cappadociam
Ablative	Cappadociā
Vocative	Cappadocia

References

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