Britannia
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Britannia
- A female personification of Britain or the United Kingdom.
- 1740, James Thomson (lyrics), Thomas Arne (music), Rule, Britannia!
- Rule, Britannia! Britannia rule the waves / Britons never, never shall be slaves
- 1740, James Thomson (lyrics), Thomas Arne (music), Rule, Britannia!
- (historical) A province of the Roman Empire covering most of the island of Britain.
- A settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Derived terms
See also
Finnish
Proper noun
Britannia
- (ambiguously) United Kingdom, Great Britain, Britain (used to refer to the state of United Kingdom or its largest island consisting of England, Scotland and Wales)
- Britain (Roman province)
- Britannia (female personification of Britain)
Declension
Inflection of Britannia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Britannia | — | |
genitive | Britannian | — | |
partitive | Britanniaa | — | |
illative | Britanniaan | — | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Britannia | — | |
accusative | nom. | Britannia | — |
gen. | Britannian | ||
genitive | Britannian | — | |
partitive | Britanniaa | — | |
inessive | Britanniassa | — | |
elative | Britanniasta | — | |
illative | Britanniaan | — | |
adessive | Britannialla | — | |
ablative | Britannialta | — | |
allative | Britannialle | — | |
essive | Britanniana | — | |
translative | Britanniaksi | — | |
abessive | Britanniatta | — | |
instructive | — | — | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Italian
Etymology
From Latin Britannia.
Proper noun
Britannia f
- (archaic) Great Britain, Britain
- Britain (Roman province)
- Britannia (female personification of Britain)
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Lua error in Module:interproject at line 62: Parameter "dab" is not used by this template. As Brittānia from the 1st century BCE, from Ancient Greek Πρεττανία (Prettanía), used by Diodorus, earlier Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter "sc" should be a valid script code; the value "polytonic" is not valid. See WT:LOS. Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter "sc" should be a valid script code; the value "polytonic" is not valid. See WT:LOS. or Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter "sc" should be a valid script code; the value "polytonic" is not valid. See WT:LOS., used by Pytheas (4th century BCE) of the entire archipelago now known as the British Isles.
The Ancient Greek name is ultimately from a Celtic ethnonym, reconstructed as early Brythonic *Pritani, perhaps from a Proto-Celtic *Kʷritanī, *Kʷritenī, whence Welsh Prydyn (“Picts”), Old Irish Cruthne, Cru(i)then-túath (“Picts”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷer- (“to do”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /briˈtan.ni.a/, [brɪˈt̪änːiä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /briˈtan.ni.a/, [briˈt̪änːiä]
Proper noun
Britannia f sg (genitive Britanniae); first declension
- Britain, ie. the country of the Britons
- Great Britain
Declension
First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
Case | Singular |
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Nominative | Britannia |
Genitive | Britanniae |
Dative | Britanniae |
Accusative | Britanniam |
Ablative | Britanniā |
Vocative | Britannia |
Locative | Britanniae |
Derived terms
- Britannia Minor (“Brittany”)
Related terms
Descendants
- Catalan: Bretanya
- → Dutch: Brittannië
- → English: Britannia, Britain, Brittany
- → German: Britannien
- Italian: Bretagna
- Old French: Bretaigne
- Old Galician-Portuguese: Bretanna
- Spanish: Bretaña
- English terms derived from Latin
- English 3-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English terms with historical senses
- en:Villages in Newfoundland and Labrador
- en:Villages in Canada
- en:Places in Newfoundland and Labrador
- en:Places in Canada
- en:Newfoundland and Labrador
- en:Personifications
- en:United Kingdom
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish kulkija-type nominals
- Finnish uncountable nouns
- Italian lemmas
- Italian proper nouns
- Italian feminine nouns
- Italian terms with archaic senses
- Latin terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Latin terms derived from Celtic languages
- Latin terms derived from Brythonic languages
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin 4-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin proper nouns
- Latin first declension nouns
- Latin feminine nouns in the first declension
- Latin feminine nouns
- la:Countries
- la:Place names
- la:United Kingdom