Germania

See also: germania, germanía, Germània, and Germânia

English

Etymology

From Latin Germānia.

Proper noun

Germania

1. (historical) Any of several geographical regions of different historical periods that were mainly inhabited by Germanic peoples.

Translations

historical region

• Armenian:

  Old Armenian: Գերմանիա (Germania)

• Danish: Germanien
• French: Germanie (fr) f

• German: Germanien (de) n
• Latin: Germania (la) f
• Portuguese: Germânia (pt) f
• Spanish: Germania (es) f

Anagrams

• Megarian, mangarie

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Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡeɾˈma.nja/

Proper noun

Germania

1. Germany

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin Germānia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʒerˈmanja/

Proper noun

Germania f

1. Germany. Official name: Repubblica Federale Tedesca.

Related terms

Terms related to Germania

• germanico
• germanio

• germanismo
• germanista

• germanizzare
• germano

• germanofilia
• germanofobia

See also

• tedesco

Anagrams

• emargina, magnerai, mangerai, mangeria, mangiare

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Latin

Etymology

From Germānī +‎ -ia. Germani was an exonym applied by the Romans to a tribe (or nearby tribes) living around and east of the Rhine; it was first attested in the 1st century b.c. works of Julius Caesar and is of uncertain etymology. It was said by Strabo to derive from germānus (“close kin; genuine”), making it cognate with "germane" and "german", but this seems unsupported. Attempts to derive it from Germanic or Celtic roots are all problematic.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ɡerˈmaː.ni.a/, [ɡɛrˈmaː.ni.a]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒerˈma.ni.a/, [d͡ʒerˈmaː.ni.a]

• Audio (Classical)

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Proper noun

Germānia f (genitive Germāniae); first declension

1. Germany in its various senses, including:
   1. (Classical Latin) the lands of the Germani, tribes living around the Rhine River in the 1st century b.c.
   2. (Medieval Latin) the lands of the Germans, sometimes inclusive of conquered areas in France, England, and Eastern Europe
   3. (New Latin) Germany, various Central European nation-states including the Holy Roman Empire, the German Empire, and the Federal Republic of Germany

Inflection

First declension.

Case	Singular
nominative	Germānia
genitive	Germāniae
dative	Germāniae
accusative	Germāniam
ablative	Germāniā
vocative	Germānia

Synonyms

• Alemānnia
• Teutonica

Related terms

Terms related to Germania

• germānicus, Germānicus

• Germānus

Descendants

• English: Germany
• Irish: Gearmáin
• Italian: Germania
• Romanian: Germania
• Russian: Герма́ния (Germánija)

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Middle English

Noun

Germania

1. Alternative form of Germanie

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Romanian

Germania

Proper noun

Germania f

1. Germany

Related terms

Terms related to Germania

• german
• Germania de Est

• Germania de Vest
• germanic

• germanist