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/, /-ˈdoʊkiə/

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Proper noun

Cappadocia

2. A historical region and ancient kingdom in central Asia Minor, in present-day Turkey.
4. A former province of the Roman Empire, existing from 18 AD until the 7th century.

Derived terms

• Cappadocian

Translations

historical region

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

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

• Azerbaijani: Kapadokiya
• Belarusian: Кападо́кія f (Kapadókija)
• Breton: Kappadokia ?
• Bulgarian: Кападокия f (Kapadokija)
• Catalan: Capadòcia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 卡帕多細亞 / 卡帕多细亚 (zh) (Kǎpàduōxìyà)

• Chuvash: Каппадоки (Kappadok̬i)
• Coptic: ⲕⲁⲡⲡⲁⲇⲟⲕⲓⲁ (kappadokia)
• Czech: Kappadokie f
• Danish: Kappadokien c
• Dutch: Cappadocië f
• Estonian: Kapadookia
• Finnish: Kappadokia
• French: Cappadoce (fr) f
• Galician: Capadocia f
• Georgian: კაპადოკია (ḳaṗadoḳia)
• German: Kappadokien (de) n
• Greek: Καππαδοκία (el) f (Kappadokía)

  Ancient Greek: Καππαδοκία f (Kappadokía)

• Hebrew: קפדוקיה ?
• Hungarian: Kappadókia (hu)
• Icelandic: Kappadókía ?
• Irish: an Chapadóic f
• Italian: Cappadocia (it) f
• Japanese: カッパドキア (Kappadokia)
• Kazakh: Қападоқия (Qapadoqiä)
• Korean: 카파도키아 (kapadokia)
• Latin: Cappadocia f
• Latvian: Kapadokija f
• Lithuanian: Kapadokija f
• Macedonian: Кападокија f (Kapadokija)
• Manchu: ᡴᠠᡦᠠᡩᠣᡴᡳᠶᠠ (kapadokiya)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Kappadokia m

  Nynorsk: Kappadokia m

• Parthian: 𐭊𐭐𐭅𐭕𐭊𐭉𐭀 (kpwtkyʾ /⁠kappōdakiyā⁠/)
• Persian: کاپادوکیه (fa) (kâpâdokye), کاپادوسیه (kâpâdosye)

  Middle Persian: 𐭪𐭯𐭥𐭲𐭪𐭩𐭠𐭩 (kpʿtkyʾy /⁠kappōdakiyā⁠/)

  Old Persian: 𐎣𐎫𐎱𐎬𐎢𐎣 (k-t-p-tu-u-k /⁠katpatuka⁠/)

• Polish: Kapadocja (pl) f
• Portuguese: Capadócia f
• Romanian: Cappadocia (ro) f, Capadocia f, Capadochia f
• Russian: Каппадо́кия (ru) f (Kappadókija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Кападокија f (Bosnia, Serbia), Кападоција f (Croatia)

  Latin: Kapadokija f (Bosnia, Serbia), Kapadocija (sh) f (Croatia)

• Slovak: Kapadócia f
• Slovene: Kapadokija (sl) f
• Spanish: Capadocia (es) f
• Swedish: Kappadokien (sv) c
• Thai: แคปพาโดเชีย (káeppaadohchia)
• Turkish: Kapadokya

  Ottoman Turkish: please add this translation if you can

• Ukrainian: Каппадокі́я f (Kappadokíja)

Further reading

• Cappadocia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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 (a historical region and ancient kingdom in central Asia Minor, in present-day Turkey)
2. Cappadocia (a former province of the Roman Empire, existing from 18 AD until the 7th century)

Related terms

• cappadoce

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kap.paˈdɔ.ki.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kap.paˈdɔː.t͡ʃi.a]

Proper noun

Cappadocia f sg (genitive Cappadociae); first declension

1. Cappadocia (a historical region and ancient kingdom in central Asia Minor, in present-day Turkey)
2. Cappadocia (a former province of the Roman Empire, existing from 18 AD until the 7th century)

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

	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.