Carinthia

English

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin Carantania. Possibly of Celtic origin, compare Proto-Celtic *karants (“friend”). The Latin toponym was also borrowed into Slavic as Proto-Slavic *korǫtanъ (with an adjective Proto-Slavic *korǫtьskъ), compare Czech Korutany and Slovene Koroška (“Carinthia”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈɹɪnθiə/
• Hyphenation: Ca‧rin‧thia
• Rhymes: -ɪnθiə

Proper noun

Carinthia

1. A federal state of modern Austria, with its capital in Klagenfurt.
2. A region in modern Slovenia.
3. (historical) A region of the Holy Roman and Austrian empires.
   • 1759, George Sale et al., “The Modern Part of an Universal History”, in History of the German Empire, volume XXIX, page 2:

     Since the reign of Charlemagne, this country is divided into High and Low Germany: the firſt, towards the ſouth, comprehending the Palatinate of the Rhine, Franconia, Suabia, Bavaria, Bohemia, Moravia, Auſtria, Carinthia, Carniola, Stiria, Tyrol, the Swiſs, and the Griſons...

Synonyms

• (region in Slovenia): Slovenian Carinthia

Coordinate terms

• (states of Austria) state of Austria; Burgenland, Carinthia, Lower Austria, Upper Austria, Salzburg, Styria, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Vienna ^{(Category: en:States of Austria)}

Related terms

• Carinthian

Translations

state of Austria

• Armenian: Կարինթիա (Karintʻia)
• Bavarian: Karntn
• Bengali: কের্ণ্টেন (kernṭen)
• Catalan: Caríntia
• Czech: Korutany (cs) pl, Korutansko (cs) n
• Danish: Kärnten
• Dutch: Karinthië
• Finnish: Kärnten
• French: Carinthie (fr) f
• Galician: Carintia
• Georgian: კარინტია (ḳarinṭia)
• German: Kärnten (de) n
• Greek: Καρινθία (el) f (Karinthía)
• Hungarian: Karintia (hu)
• Italian: Carinzia (it) f
• Ladin: Ciarënzia f
• Macedonian: Корушка f (Koruška)
• Polish: Karyntia (pl) f
• Portuguese: Caríntia f
• Romanian: Carintia f
• Russian: Кари́нтия (ru) f (Karíntija)
• Slovene: Koróška (sl) f
• Spanish: Carintia f

region in Slovenia

• Bavarian: Karntn
• Bengali: কের্ণ্টেন (kernṭen)
• Finnish: Carinthia
• Macedonian: Корушка f (Koruška)
• Slovene: Koróška (sl) f, Slovénska Koróška f

Further reading

• Carinthia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Portuguese

Proper noun

Carinthia f

1. Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) of Caríntia.