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Cambria

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Etymology edit

Borrowed from Medieval Latin Cambria, from Middle Welsh Kymry, from Proto-Brythonic *kömrüɣ, plural of *kömroɣ. Doublet of Cumbria and Cumberland. Cognate with Welsh Cymru.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈkæm.bɹi.ə/, /ˈkeɪm.bɹi.ə/

Proper noun edit

Cambria

  1. (historical) Wales.
  2. A number of places in the United States:
    1. A census-designated place in San Luis Obispo County, California.
    2. A village in Williamson County, Illinois.
    3. An unincorporated community in Owen Township, Clinton County, Indiana.
    4. An unincorporated community in Washington Township, Wayne County, Iowa.
    5. A township in Saline County, Kansas.
    6. A township and census-designated place therein, in Hillsdale County, Michigan.
    7. A township and unincorporated community therein, in Blue Earth County, Minnesota.
    8. A town in Niagara County, New York; some of the early settlers were from Wales.
    9. A former farming colony in Pennsylvania.
    10. A township in Cambria County, Pennsylvania.
    11. An unincorporated community in Nicholas County, West Virginia.
    12. A village in Columbia County, Wisconsin.
    13. A ghost town, a former coal town in Weston County, Wyoming.
  3. A community in the town of Drumheller, Alberta, Canada.
  4. The Rural Municipality of Cambria No. 6, a rural municipality in southern Saskatchewan, Canada.

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Etymology edit

Borrowed from Middle Welsh Kymry (modern Cymru, Cymry). First attested in, and likely coined by, Geoffrey of Monmouth (c. 1136).[1]

Pronunciation edit

Proper noun edit

Cambria f sg (genitive Cambriae); first declension

  1. (Medieval Latin, New Latin) Wales (a constituent country of the United Kingdom)
    Synonyms: Wallia, Britannia

Declension edit

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Cambria
Genitive Cambriae
Dative Cambriae
Accusative Cambriam
Ablative Cambriā
Vocative Cambria
Locative Cambriae

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References edit

  1. ^ Pryce, Huw (2001 September) “British or Welsh? National Identity in Twelfth-Century Wales”, in The English Historical Review, volume 116, number 468, →JSTOR, page 797
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