Lusitania

See also: lusitania and Lusitânia

English

Etymology

From Latin Lūsītānia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /luːsɪˈtʰeɪnɪə/
• Rhymes: -eɪniə

Proper noun

Lusitania

1. ancient Roman province, roughly corresponding to modern Portugal
2. (archaic, poetic) Portugal
3. an abbreviation for the RMS Lusitania, a British ship that was sunk in 1915 during World War I

Derived terms

• Lusitanian

Translations

ancient Roman province

• Armenian: Լուզիտանիա (Luzitania)
• Catalan: Lusitània f
• French: Lusitanie (fr) f
• Galician: Lusitania (gl)
• Georgian: ლუზიტანია (luziṭania)
• German: Lusitanien (de)
• Italian: Lusitania
• Latin: Lusitania (la) f

• Polish: Luzytania (pl) f
• Portuguese: Lusitânia (pt)
• Romanian: Lusitania (ro)
• Russian: Лузитания (ru) (Luzitanija)
• Spanish: Lusitania (es)

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Latin

Etymology

From Lūsītānus +‎ -ia, named after the Lusitanians, a Proto-Indo-European tribe of the Iberian peninsula (from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia). The name's origin is uncertain but it is generally agreed that the tribe converged with a heavy Celtic (possibly Celtiberian) influence.

The province within the Roman Empire

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /luː.siːˈtaː.ni.a/, [ɫ̪uːs̠iːˈt̪äːniä]

• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /lu.siˈta.ni.a/, [lus̬iˈt̪äːniä]

Proper noun

Lūsītānia f sg (genitive Lūsītāniae); first declension

1. A province of Roman Hispania, covering what is now southern Portugal and parts of western Spain such as Extremadura.

Declension

• First-declension noun, with locative.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Lūsītānia
Genitive	Lūsītāniae
Dative	Lūsītāniae
Accusative	Lūsītāniam
Ablative	Lūsītāniā
Vocative	Lūsītānia
Locative	Lūsītāniae

Related terms

• Lūsītānī
• Lūsītānus

Descendants

• English: Lusitania

References

• “Lūsītānia” on page 1157 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
• “Lusitania”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Lusitania in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Koch, John T (2011). Tartessian 2: The Inscription of Mesas do Castelinho ro and the Verbal Complex. Preliminaries to Historical Phonology. Oxbow Books, Oxford, UK. pp. 33–34. →ISBN.

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin Lūsītānia.

Proper noun

Lusitania f

1. Lusitania (ancient Roman province)