Bretanya

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin Britannia (“Britain”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [bɾəˈta.ɲə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [bɾeˈta.ɲa]

Proper noun

Bretanya f

1. Brittany (a cultural region, historical province, and peninsula in northwest France)
2. Brittany (an administrative region of northwest France, including most of the historic region of Brittany)
3. (historical) Brittania (Great Britain and Brittany)

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.

Derived terms

• Gran Bretanya (“Great Britain”)

Related terms

• bretó
• Britània (“Roman Britain”)
• britànic

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Bretaña and Spanish Gran Bretaña.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /bɾeˈtanja/ [bɾɛˈt̪aː.ɲɐ]
  • IPA^(key): (no palatal assimilation) /bɾeˈtanja/ [bɾɛˈt̪an̪.jɐ]
• Rhymes: -anja
• Syllabification: Bre‧tan‧ya

Proper noun

Bretanya (Baybayin spelling ᜊ᜔ᜇᜒᜆᜈ᜔ᜌ)

1. Brittany (a cultural region, historical province, and peninsula in northwest France)
2. Brittany (an administrative region of northwest France, including most of the historic region of Brittany)
3. alternative spelling of Britanya:
   1. (loosely) Britain (the United Kingdom, a kingdom and country in Northern Europe including the island of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland on the northeastern portion of the island of Ireland)

      Synonyms: Reyno Unido, Gran Britanya

   2. Britain (great Britain, a large island (sometimes also including some of the surrounding smaller islands) off the north-west coast of Western Europe, made up of England, Scotland, and Wales; especially (but not exclusively) during antiquity)

      Synonym: Gran Britanya

   3. (loosely) the British Isles
   4. (historical) the British Empire

Anagrams

• baryante