provincia

See also: província

Asturian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin prōvincia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɾoˈbinθja/, [pɾoˈβ̞ĩn̟.θja]

Noun

provincia f (plural provincies)

1. province

Chavacano

Etymology

Inherited from Spanish provincia, from Latin prōvincia.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

provincia

1. province

Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin prōvincia.

Noun

provincia f (plural provincias)

1. province

Related terms

• provincial

Interlingua

Noun

provincia (plural provincias)

1. province

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin prōvincia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /proˈvin.t͡ʃa/
• Rhymes: -intʃa
• Hyphenation: pro‧vìn‧cia

Noun

provincia f (plural province or provincie)

1. province
2. district
3. country

Further reading

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

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *prōwinkjā. Equivalent to Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to go over”) and vincio (“I bind, tie up, fetter”). According to de Vaan, based on a Proto-Italic *prō-wink-jo- (“load, burden, charge; task”). Alternatively from pro- and vinco (“I win, conquer”). Alternatively, from Proto-Indo-European *proHwo- (“right judge, master”), and then cognate with Gothic 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌿𐌾𐌰 (frauja, “lord, master”), Old English frēa (“ruler, lord, king, master”), Russian пра́вый (právyj, “right”), Polish prawo (“law”). Alternatively, from *prōv-inquos “vested with authority, having a right” from *prōvos “right, true”.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /proːˈu̯in.ki.a/, [proːˈu̯ɪŋkiä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /proˈvin.t͡ʃi.a/, [proˈvin̠ʲt͡ʃiä]

Noun

prōvincia f (genitive prōvinciae); first declension

1. province, office, duty, command

   Provinciam remitto.

   I abandon my province.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	prōvincia	prōvinciae
Genitive	prōvinciae	prōvinciārum
Dative	prōvinciae	prōvinciīs
Accusative	prōvinciam	prōvinciās
Ablative	prōvinciā	prōvinciīs
Vocative	prōvincia	prōvinciae

Derived terms

• prōvinciālis
• prōvinciātim

Descendants

• Lombard: proìnsa
• Asturian: provincia
• → Catalan: província
• → Italian: provincia
• Sicilian: pruvincia
• → Middle Dutch: provincie
  • Dutch: provincie
    • Afrikaans: provinsie
    • → Malay: provinsi
      • Indonesian: provinsi
      • → Acehnese: propinsi
  • Limburgish: provinsje
• → Middle High German: provincie
  • German: Provinz
    • → Danish: provins
    • → Norwegian: provins
    • → Swedish: provins
  • Yiddish: פּראָווינץ‎ (provints)
• → Old French: province, provinz, pruvince
  • Middle French: province
    • French: province
    • → Middle English: provynce, provynse, province, provyns
      • English: province
        • Tok Pisin: provins
      • Scots: province
  • Norman: provînche, provinche
• → Polish: prowincja
  • → Russian: провинция (provincija)
• Old Galician-Portuguese: provincia
  • Galician: provincia
• → Portuguese: província
• → Romanian: provincie
• → Spanish: provincia
  • Chavacano: provincia
  • → Basque: probintzia
  • → Bikol Central: probinsya
  • → Cebuano: probinsiya
  • → Hiligaynon: probinsya
  • → Ilocano: probinsia
  • → Kapampangan: probinsia
  • → Tagalog: probinsiya
• → Sardinian: provìntzia

region in southern France:

• Old Occitan: Proensa
  • Catalan: Provença
  • Occitan: Provença, Prouvènço
    • → French: Provence
      • → English: Provence
    • → Italian: Provenza
• Old Galician-Portuguese: Proença
  • Galician: Provenza
  • Portuguese: Provença

References

• “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’s 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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pruˈviŋt͡ʃa/

Noun

provincia f (plural provincie)

1. province

   Synonym: provinsa

Related terms

• provincial

Portuguese

Noun

provincia f (plural provincias)

1. Obsolete spelling of província

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin prōvincia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /pɾoˈbinθja/ [pɾoˈβ̞ĩn̟.θja]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /pɾoˈbinsja/ [pɾoˈβ̞ĩn.sja]
• (Spain) Rhymes: -inθja
• (Latin America) Rhymes: -insja
• Syllabification: pro‧vin‧cia

Noun

provincia f (plural provincias)

1. province

Related terms

• provincial

 

Descendants

• Chavacano: provincia
• → Basque: probintzia
• → Bikol Central: probinsya
• → Cebuano: probinsiya
• → Hiligaynon: probinsya
• → Ilocano: probinsia
• → Kapampangan: probinsia
• → Tagalog: probinsiya

Further reading

• “provincia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014