Carinthia
English edit
Etymology edit
Ultimately from Latin Carantania. Possibly of Celtic origin, compare Proto-Celtic *karants (“friend”). The Latin toponym was also borrowed into Slavic as Proto-Slavic *korǫtanъ (with an adjective Proto-Slavic *korǫtьskъ), compare Czech Korutany and Slovene Koroška (“Carinthia”).
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Carinthia
- A federal state of modern Austria, with its capital in Klagenfurt.
- A region in modern Slovenia.
- (historical) A region of the Holy Roman and Austrian empires.
- 1759, George Sale et al., “The Modern Part of an Universal History”, in History of the German Empire, volume XXIX, page 2:
Synonyms edit
- (region in Slovenia): Slovenian Carinthia
Coordinate terms edit
- (states of Austria) state of Austria; Burgenland, Carinthia, Lower Austria, Upper Austria, Salzburg, Styria, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Vienna (Category: en:States of Austria)
Related terms edit
Translations edit
state of Austria
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region in Slovenia
References edit
- ^ “Carinthia”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
Further reading edit
Portuguese edit
Proper noun edit
Carinthia f
- Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) of Caríntia.