Mauritia
Translingual
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Etymology
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Proper noun
[edit]Mauritia f
References
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Mauritia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Mauritia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Category:Mauritia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Mauritius + -ia, from lying underneath Mauritius.
Proper noun
[edit]Mauritia
- A former microcontinent that once formed the landbridge between the subcontinents of Madagascar and India, which was subducted under the African plate, and now partly lie under the region of Mauritius.
Latin
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Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [mau̯ˈriː.ti.a]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [mau̯ˈrit.t͡si.a]
Proper noun
[edit]Maurītia f sg (genitive Maurītiae); first declension
- (New Latin) Mauritius (an island and country in East Africa in the Indian Ocean)
Declension
[edit]First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
Categories:
- Translingual lemmas
- Translingual proper nouns
- mul:Taxonomic names (genus)
- English terms suffixed with -ia (place)
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- Latin 4-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin proper nouns
- Latin first declension nouns
- Latin feminine nouns in the first declension
- Latin feminine nouns
- New Latin
- la:Mauritius
- la:Islands
- la:Countries in Africa