Gallia Belgica

English

Etymology

From Latin Gallia Belgica.

Proper noun

Gallica Belgica (uncountable)

2. (historical) An ancient province of the Roman Empire, existing from 22 BCE to the 5th century C.E. and located in modern northeast France, most of Belgium and Luxembourg, and parts of the Netherlands and Germany.

   Synonyms: Belgic Gaul, Belgian Gaul

Latin

The region within the Roman Empire

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɡal.li.a ˈbɛɫ.ɡɪ.ka]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɡal.li.a ˈbɛl̠ʲ.d͡ʒi.ka]

Proper noun

Gallia Belgica f sg (genitive Galliae Belgicae); first declension

1. Gallia Belgica (an ancient province of the Roman Empire, existing from 22 BCE to the 5th century C.E. and located in modern northeast France, most of Belgium and Luxembourg, and parts of the Netherlands and Germany)

Declension

First-declension noun with a first-declension adjective, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Gallia Belgica
genitive	Galliae Belgicae
dative	Galliae Belgicae
accusative	Galliam Belgicam
ablative	Galliā Belgicā
vocative	Gallia Belgica

Descendants

• → Spanish: Galia Bélgica

References

• “Belgica Belgae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Belgica”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Gallia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.