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Romania

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See also: romania, Románia, România, Romãnia, Romānia, and Romanía

English

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Romania (in dark green) within Europe.

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Etymology 1

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From Romanian România, from român (“Romanian”) (in turn from Latin Rōmānus (“Roman”)) + -ia.

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Romania

  2. A country in Southeastern Europe. Capital and largest city: Bucharest.
    • 2014 November 9, Stanley Reed, “Britain Plans for Future of Shale Oil and Gas Industry”, in The New York Times‎[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 18 January 2022:
      There is strong resistance in much of Europe to fracking, the practice of forcing liquid and sand into wells to release trapped oil and gas. France has a ban on fracking, Germany has imposed a moratorium, and opposition has cropped up and sometimes delayed shale exploration in Eastern European countries like Romania and Poland.
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Etymology 2

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From Latin Rōmānia, from Medieval Greek Ῥωμανία (Rhōmanía), itself from Latin Rōmānus. By surface analysis, Roman +‎ -ia. Doublet of Romagna.

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Romania

  1. (academic, historical, linguistics) The Latin- or Romance-speaking areas of Europe, collectively.
  2. (historical) Synonym of Byzantine Empire, also used for its former territories.
    • 1973, Arnold Joseph Toynbee, Constantine Porphyrogenitus and his world, page 682:
      There is a significant coincidence of dates between several events: the splitting of the Paulician community in Rhomania in consequence of Séryios’s innovations; the breach between Séryios’s partisans and the East Roman Imperial Government, […]
    • 1988, Donald M. Nicol, Byzantium and Venice: A Study in Diplomatic and Cultural Relations, page 208:
      The Doge of Venice was honored with his full title of dominator of one-quarter and one-eighth of the whole Empire of Romania; and he was promised repossession of all the rights and properties that his people had held in Constantinople in the years of the Latin occupation.
    • 1989, Ferenc Makk, The Árpáds and the Comneni: political relations between Hungary and Byzantium in the 12th century, page 110:
      In this letter the basileus informed the Pope that Béla III had attacked Serbia, since he was not content with his own country, “which he acquired with difficulties and with the help of the armies and the money of Rhomania [i.e. Byzantium]”.
    • 1989, David Jacoby, “From Byzantium to Latin Romania: Continuity and Change”, in Latins and Greeks in the Eastern Mediterranean After 1204, page 1:
      The Fourth Crusade ended in 1204 with the Western or Latin conquest of Constantinople and signalled the beginning of a new era in the history of the Byzantine lands or Romania.
    • 1999, Rustam Shukurov, “Turkoman and Byzantine Self-Identity: Some reflections on the Logic of the Title-Making in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Anatolia”, in Eastern Approaches to Byzantium: Papers from the Thirty-Third Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies:
      If the Constantinopolitan Byzantines regarded the Anatolian Turkic territories as lands temporarily lost from their indivisible universal Rhomania, the Turkoman rulers of the twelfth century considered Rhomania as being factually divided between several rulers.
    • 2001, David Jacoby, “Changing Economic Patterns in Latin Romania: The Impact of the West”, in The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World, page 197:
      The dramatic fall of Constantinople in 1204 and the Latin conquest of the Empire’s provinces in the following decade resulted in the dismemberment of Romania.
    • 2013, Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (Pope Pius II), trans. Robert Brown, Europe (c.1400-1458), page 69:
      Next to them, the maritime region extending south to the Hellespont is Romania—a Greek nation, though it was once barbarian, and it is returning to barbarism in our own time, now that the empire of the Greeks has been destroyed and the Turks hold sway. The capital city of this country [Thrace] is Byzantium, formerly called Agios.

Etymology 3

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Romania

  1. Obsolete form of Romagna.
    • 1629 [1619], Paolo Sarpi, translated by Nathaniel Brent, The Historie of the Councel of Trent […]‎[2], London: Bonham Norton and John Bill, →OCLC, book 1, paragraph 97, page 43:
      In the end of Ianuarie, Borbon passed the Po with all his troupes, and directed his iourney towards Romania: […]

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Catalan

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Romania f

  1. Romania (a country in Southeastern Europe)

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Finnish

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Etymology

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From Romanian România.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈromɑniɑ/, [ˈro̞mɑ̝ˌniɑ̝]
  • Rhymes: -iɑ
  • Syllabification(key): Ro‧ma‧ni‧a
  • Hyphenation(key): Ro‧ma‧nia

Proper noun

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Romania

  1. Romania (a country in Southeastern Europe)

Declension

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Inflection of Romania (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative Romania —
genitive Romanian —
partitive Romaniaa —
illative Romaniaan —
singular plural
nominative Romania —
accusative nom. Romania —
gen. Romanian
genitive Romanian —
partitive Romaniaa —
inessive Romaniassa —
elative Romaniasta —
illative Romaniaan —
adessive Romanialla —
ablative Romanialta —
allative Romanialle —
essive Romaniana —
translative Romaniaksi —
abessive Romaniatta —
instructive — —
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of Romania (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
first-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative Romaniani —
accusative nom. Romaniani —
gen. Romaniani
genitive Romaniani —
partitive Romaniaani —
inessive Romaniassani —
elative Romaniastani —
illative Romaniaani —
adessive Romaniallani —
ablative Romanialtani —
allative Romanialleni —
essive Romanianani —
translative Romaniakseni —
abessive Romaniattani —
instructive — —
comitative — —
second-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative Romaniasi —
accusative nom. Romaniasi —
gen. Romaniasi
genitive Romaniasi —
partitive Romaniaasi —
inessive Romaniassasi —
elative Romaniastasi —
illative Romaniaasi —
adessive Romaniallasi —
ablative Romanialtasi —
allative Romaniallesi —
essive Romanianasi —
translative Romaniaksesi —
abessive Romaniattasi —
instructive — —
comitative — —
first-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative Romaniamme —
accusative nom. Romaniamme —
gen. Romaniamme
genitive Romaniamme —
partitive Romaniaamme —
inessive Romaniassamme —
elative Romaniastamme —
illative Romaniaamme —
adessive Romaniallamme —
ablative Romanialtamme —
allative Romaniallemme —
essive Romanianamme —
translative Romaniaksemme —
abessive Romaniattamme —
instructive — —
comitative — —
second-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative Romanianne —
accusative nom. Romanianne —
gen. Romanianne
genitive Romanianne —
partitive Romaniaanne —
inessive Romaniassanne —
elative Romaniastanne —
illative Romaniaanne —
adessive Romaniallanne —
ablative Romanialtanne —
allative Romaniallenne —
essive Romaniananne —
translative Romaniaksenne —
abessive Romaniattanne —
instructive — —
comitative — —
third-person possessor
singular plural
nominative Romaniansa —
accusative nom. Romaniansa —
gen. Romaniansa
genitive Romaniansa —
partitive Romaniaansa —
inessive Romaniassaan
Romaniassansa 		—
elative Romaniastaan
Romaniastansa 		—
illative Romaniaansa —
adessive Romaniallaan
Romaniallansa 		—
ablative Romanialtaan
Romanialtansa 		—
allative Romanialleen
Romaniallensa 		—
essive Romanianaan
Romanianansa 		—
translative Romaniakseen
Romaniaksensa 		—
abessive Romaniattaan
Romaniattansa 		—
instructive — —
comitative — —

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French

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Etymology

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    Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ῥωμανία (Rhōmanía).

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    Romania f

    1. (academic, historical, linguistics) the Romance speaking areas of Europe

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    Italian

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    Etymology 1

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    Internationalism.

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    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /ro.maˈni.a/
    • Rhymes: -ia
    • Hyphenation: Ro‧ma‧nì‧a

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    Romania f

    1. Romania (a country in Southeastern Europe)
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    Etymology 2

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      Learned borrowing from Latin Rōmānia.

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      • IPA(key): /roˈma.nja/
      • Rhymes: -anja
      • Hyphenation: Ro‧mà‧nia

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      Romania f

      1. (historical or linguistics) Romania (Latin or Romance-speaking of Europe)

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      Latin

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      Etymology tree
      Latin Rōma
      Proto-Indo-European *-nós
      Proto-Italic *-nosder.
      Proto-Italic *-ānos
      Latin -ānus
      Latin Rōmānusbor.
      Ancient Greek Ῥωμᾱνός (Rhōmānós)
      Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
      Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
      Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
      Proto-Hellenic *-íā
      Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
      Ancient Greek Ῥωμᾱνῐ́ᾱ (Rhōmānĭ́ā)der.
      Latin Rōmānia

        Derived from Ancient Greek Ῥωμᾱνῐ́ᾱ (Rhōmānĭ́ā).

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        Rōmānia f sg (genitive Rōmāniae); first declension

        1. (historical, Late Latin) Roman Empire
          • lived ca. 385 CE - ca. 420 CE, Orosius, Historiae adversum paganos 7.43.5:
            Nam ego quoque ipse virum quemdam Narbonensem ... audivi, se familiarissimum Ataulpho apud Narbonam fuisse: ac de eo ... didicisse, quod ... referre solitus esset, se in primis ardenter inhiasse: ut, obliterato Romano nomine, Romanum omne sŏlum, Gothorum imperium et faceret et vocaret: essetque, ut vulgariter loquar, Gothia, quod Romania fuisset; fieretque nunc Ataulphus quod quondam Caesar Augustus.
            I, too, once heard a man from Narbonne who claimed to be very familiar with Athaulf and who had learned that Athaulf would often say that, more than anything else, he desired this: after eliminating the name of Rome, he would make the entire Roman land subject to Gothic power and call it so, calling (if I may speak vulgarly) what was previously Romania as "Gothia". And so Athaulfus would become what Caesar Augustus once was [i.e. the first emperor of a new empire].
        2. (historical, Medieval Latin) Byzantine Empire
        3. (New Latin) Romania (a country in Southeastern Europe)

        Declension

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        First-declension noun, singular only.

        singular
        nominative Rōmānia
        genitive Rōmāniae
        dative Rōmāniae
        accusative Rōmāniam
        ablative Rōmāniā
        vocative Rōmānia

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        • Old French: Romanie
        • Italian: Romagna
        • Romagnol: Rumâgna
        • → Proto-Brythonic: *rrʉβ̃ėn (from a Vulgar Latin variant "Rōmănia" with a short "a" in the second syllable)

        Norwegian Bokmål

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        The flag of Romania.
        The location of Romania in Europe.
        The Danube Delta in eastern Romania.

        Etymology

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        Internationalism, based ultimately on Romanian România (“Romania”). The Romanian name is formed from român (“Romanian”) and -ia, the definite form of -ie. The ethnonym român is inherited from Latin Latin Rōmānus (“Roman”), from Rōma (“Rome”).

        Parallel international forms include Norwegian Nynorsk Romania, Danish Rumænien, Swedish Rumänien, German Rumänien, Dutch Roemenië, French Roumanie, Italian Romania, Spanish Rumanía, Portuguese Roménia and English Romania (“Romania”).

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        • IPA(key): /¹rʊˈmɑː.ni.a/, [ɾʊˈmɑ̀ː.ni.a]
        • Rhymes: -ɑːnia
        • Hyphenation: Ro‧ma‧ni‧a

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        Romania

        1. Romania; a country in Southeastern Europe, on the Black Sea; capital and largest city: București.
          Hun reiste gjennom Romania med tog. ― She travelled through Romania by train.
          • 2026 June 25, Jardar Seim, “Romania”, in Store norske leksikon‎[3]:
            Romania er et land i Sørøst-Europa. I europeisk målestokk er det et middelstort land.
            Romania is a country in Southeastern Europe. By European standards, it is a medium-sized country.

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        • Romania is both the short and official Norwegian name. The official Romanian name is România (“Romania”).
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        • rumener (“a Romanian”)
        • rumensk (“Romanian; the Romanian language”)

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        Norwegian Nynorsk

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        Romania

        1. Romania (a country in Southeastern Europe)
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        Sardinian

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        Romania ?

        1. Romania (a country in Southeastern Europe)

        Swahili

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        Proper noun

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        Romania

        1. Romania (a country in Southeastern Europe)

        Yoruba

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        Etymology

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        Yoruba Wikipedia has an article on:
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        Ròmáníà

        Borrowed from English Romania.

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        Ròmáníà

        1. Romania (a country in Southeastern Europe)
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