Frisia

See also: Frísia and frisia

English

Etymology

From Latin Frisia, from Frisii (“Frisians”).

Proper noun

Frisia

2. (historical) A coastal region along the southeastern corner of the North Sea in what today is mostly a large part of the Netherlands (including present-day Frisia (see below)) and smaller parts of northern Germany (including present-day East Frisia). It is the traditional homeland of the Frisians.
   • 1878, Philip Smith, The History of the Christian Church During the First Ten Centuries, page 519:

     Devoting himself to labour among the heathen, [Winfrid] crossed to Frisia, in 716; […]

3. (exonym) Fryslân, a province of the Netherlands. Also referred to as Friesland (using the Dutch vernacular endonym) and West Frisia.
   • 1913, Municipal Journal, Public Works Engineer and Contractors' Guide, Volume 22, page 1166:

     The population of the Province of Frisia, which is divided into eleven urban and thirty rural communes, is of a people of a distinct national character, who have never known feudalism and who attach a high importance to their independence and personal value, hard-working, and of a serious and grave character, with little sentiment for the past.

   • 2005, Carl Skutsch, Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities, Routledge, →ISBN, page 470:

     The three areas populated by Frisians today are the Dutch province of Frisia (West-Frisia), the German landscape East-Frisia […] , and the German district North-Frisia […] .

Related terms

• Friso-Saxon

 

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Frisia.

Proper noun

Frisia f

1. Friesland (a province of the Netherlands)

Latin

Etymology

From Frīsiī (“the Frisians”).

Proper noun

Frīsia f sg (genitive Frīsiae); first declension

1. Friesland (a region of Western Europe, straddling the Netherlands and Germany)

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Frīsia
Genitive	Frīsiae
Dative	Frīsiae
Accusative	Frīsiam
Ablative	Frīsiā
Vocative	Frīsia

Descendants

• Catalan: Frísia
• French: Frise
• Italian: Frisia
• Portuguese: Frísia
• Spanish: Frisia

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin Frīsia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɾisja/ [ˈfɾi.sja]
• Rhymes: -isja
• Syllabification: Fri‧sia

Proper noun

Frisia f

1. Friesland (a province of the Netherlands)

Related terms

• frisio
• frisón

 

Further reading

• “Frisia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014