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provincia

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See also: província

Aragonese

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin prōvincia.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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provincia f

  1. province

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Asturian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin prōvincia.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /pɾoˈbinθja/ [pɾoˈβ̞ĩn̟.θja]
  • Rhymes: -inθja
  • Syllabification: pro‧vin‧cia

Noun

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provincia f (plural provincies)

  1. province

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Chavacano

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Etymology

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Inherited from Spanish provincia, from Latin prōvincia.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /pɾoˈbinsja/, [pɾoˈbĩn.ʃa]
  • Rhymes: -insja
  • Hyphenation: pro‧vin‧cia

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provincia

  1. province

Galician

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin prōvincia.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (standard) /pɾoˈbinθja/ [pɾoˈβ̞in̪.θjɐ]
  • IPA(key): (seseo) /pɾoˈbinsja/ [pɾoˈβ̞in.sjɐ]

 

  • Hyphenation: pro‧vin‧cia

Noun

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provincia f (plural provincias)

  1. province
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Interlingua

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Noun

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provincia (plural provincias)

  1. province

Italian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin prōvincia.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /proˈvin.t͡ʃa/
  • Audio (male voice):(file)
  • Rhymes: -intʃa
  • Hyphenation: pro‧vìn‧cia

Noun

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provincia f (plural province or provincie)

  1. province, also used generically (but not officially) to refer to non-federal administrative divisions or to the area around a big city
    Synonyms: regione, circondario, mandamento, distretto, contea
    Cologno Monzese è in provincia di Milano.
    Cologno Monzese is part of the province of Milan.
    Le bancarelle e i mercatini dell'usato esplodono nella provincia di Parigi...
    Stalls and flea markets are booming in the Paris region...

Further reading

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  • provincia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Perhaps a nominalization of *prō-vinc-ios, adjective formed on *prō-vinciō, see vinciō.[1]

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Noun

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prōvincia f (genitive prōvinciae); first declension

  2. office, official duty, command, formal responsibility given to a magistrate
  3. (loosely) a task, responsibility, burden
    • c. 200 BCE – 190 BCE, Plautus, Captivi 3.1.14–16:
      ipsi obsonant, quae parasitorum ante erat provincia,
      ipsi de foro tam aperto capite ad lenones eunt
      quam in tribu aperto capite sontes condemnant reos;
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    • 62 BCE, Cicero, Pro Sulla 18.52:
      […] ; tum tuus pater, Corneli, id quod tandem aliquando confitetur, illam sibi officiosam provinciam depoposcit ut, cum prima luce consulem salutatum veniret, intromissus et meo more et iure amicitiae me in meo lectulo trucidaret.
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  4. (especially) the office of ruling over, or government of, an administrative region (province) of the Roman Republic or Empire
    cōnsulāris prōvincia ― a govermnent entrusted to a proconsul (ex-consul)
  5. (transferred senses):
    1. (countable):
      1. (strictly) any territory outside Italy, acquired chiefly by conquest, brought under Roman rule and governed by a Roman magistrate
        in prōvinciam redigere ― to put under Roman rule (literally, “to reduce to a province”)
        • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.2:
          […] tertia lacū Lemannō et flūmine Rhodanō, quī prōvinciam nostram ab Helvētiīs dīvidit.
          [The Helvetian territory is bounded] on a third [side] by Lake Lemannus (Lake Geneva) and the Rhône River, which separates our province from the Helvetii.
      2. (loosely) a territory outside of one's borders but under one's dominion
      3. (by extension):
        1. (strictly) an administrative region of the Roman Republic or Roman Empire, a province
          cōnsulāris prōvincia ― a province under the rule of a proconsul (ex-consul)
        2. (loosely) an administrative region of any government
    2. (uncountable):
      1. the area oustide of Italy under Roman dominion
      2. (especially) the Provincia Narbonensis, Provence (now part of France)

Usage notes

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  • sense 1 is construed attributively, most often in the set phrase consulī prōvincia aliquid/aliquī/etc. ēvenīre, "for something/a people/etc. to be given a consul as a task [to be dealt with]".

Declension

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First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative prōvincia prōvinciae
genitive prōvinciae prōvinciārum
dative prōvinciae prōvinciīs
accusative prōvinciam prōvinciās
ablative prōvinciā prōvinciīs
vocative prōvincia prōvinciae

Derived terms

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Descendants

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common noun
region in southern France

References

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  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “vinciō, -īre (> Derivatives > prōvincia)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 679

Further reading

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  • “provincia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “provincia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "provincia", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • “provincia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to entrust some one with an official duty, a province: provinciam alicui decernere, mandare
    • to draw lots for the provinces: provincias sortiri (Liv. 38. 35)
    • (the magistrates) arrange among themselves the administration of the provinces, the official spheres of duty: provincias inter se comparant
    • to set out for one's province: in provinciam proficisci (Liv. 38. 35)
    • to exchange provinces: provincias permutare
    • to manage, govern a province: provinciam administrare, obtinere
    • to visit, traverse a province: provinciam obire
    • to make Asia into a Roman province: Asiam in provinciae formam (in provinciam) redigere (B. G. 1. 45)
  • “provincia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “provincia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
  • “provincia”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  • Pokorny, Julius (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 810

Piedmontese

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provincia f (plural provincie)

  1. province
    Synonym: provinsa
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Portuguese

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Noun

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provincia f (plural provincias)

  1. obsolete spelling of província

Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin prōvincia.

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provincia f (plural provincias)

  1. province
    • 2023 October 9, Jessica Hasbun, “Gobierno dominicano abrirá corredores comerciales provisionales en la frontera con Haití”, in CNN en Español‎[2]:
      El portavoz del Gobierno de República Dominicana, Homero Figueroa, informó este lunes las nuevas medidas adoptadas por el Consejo Nacional de Seguridad, que incluyen habilitar Corredores Comerciales Provisionales (CCP) en la frontera dominicano-haitiana tras el cierre total desde el 15 de septiembre.
      Según indicó Figueroa, estos CCP se abrirán bajo estrictas medidas de control militar y contarán con un registro biométrico obligatorio en las provincias fronterizas de Dajabón, Elías Piña, Independencia y Pedernales.
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