Lietuva

See also: Lietuvą and Lietuvā

Latvian

Lietuva (Eiropā)

Lietuvas karogs

Etymology

From the same stem as leitis (“Lithuanian”) (q.v.): *leit-, from which also liet (“to pour”), lietus (“rain”)) (q.v.). First mentioned in Nestor's Chronicle (in (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Church Slavonic) as Литьва (Litĭva), from an earlier *Lētuvā, apparently from *leit- with a suffix (perhaps +‎ -uve). Cognates include Lithuanian Lietuvà.

Pronunciation

(file)

Proper noun

Lietuva f (4th declension)

1. Lithuania (a country in Baltic, Europe; capital: Vilnius)

   Lietuvas karogs ― the flag of Lithuania

   Lietuvas teritorija ― the territory of Lithuania

   Lietuva ir valsts Baltijas jūras austrumu krastā ― Lithuania is a country on the eastern coast of the Baltic sea

Declension

Declension of Lietuva (4th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	Lietuva	—
accusative (akuzatīvs)	Lietuvu	—
genitive (ģenitīvs)	Lietuvas	—
dative (datīvs)	Lietuvai	—
instrumental (instrumentālis)	Lietuvu	—
locative (lokatīvs)	Lietuvā	—
vocative (vokatīvs)	Lietuva	—

Synonyms

• Lietuvas Republika

Related terms

• leitis, leitiete
• lietuvietis, lietuviete
• lietuvis, lietuve
• lietuvisks
• lietuviešu valoda, leišu valoda

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Lithuanian

Etymology

Cognate with lietus (“rain”). Cognates in other languages include Latvian Lietuva.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /liɛtuvɑ/

Proper noun

Lietuvà f

1. Lithuania

Declension

    Declension of Lietuva

nominative	Lietuva
genitive	Lietuvos
dative	Lietuvai
accusative	Lietuvą
instrumental	Lietuva
locative	Lietuvoje
vocative	Lietuva

See also

• Lietova (Samogitian)

See also

• (countries of Europe) Europos šalys; Airija, Albanija, Andora, Armėnija, Austrija, Azerbaidžanas, Baltarusija, Belgija, Bosnija ir Hercegovina, Bulgarija, Čekija, Danija, Estija, Graikija, Gruzija, Gudija, Islandija, Ispanija, Italija, Jungtinė Karalystė, Juodkalnija, Kazachstanas, Kipras, Kroatija, Latvija, Lenkija, Lichtenšteinas, Lietuva, Liuksemburgas, Makedonija, Malta, Moldavija, Monakas, Nyderlandai, Norvegija, Portugalija, Prancūzija, Rumunija, Rusija, San Marinas, Serbija, Slovakija, Slovėnija, Suomija, Švedija, Šveicarija, Turkija, Ukraina, Vatikanas, Vengrija, Vokietija

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Northern Sami

Proper noun

Lietuva

1. Lithuania

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland