Latvia

See also: latvia, Látvia, and Lát-vi-a

English

Location of Latvia

Etymology

Borrowed from Latvian Latvija.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈlæt.vi.ə/, /ˈlɑːt.vi.ə/

• Audio (US)

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Proper noun

Latvia

2. A country in North Eastern Europe. Official name: Republic of Latvia

   Synonym: Lettland

   • 2005, Clinton, Bill, My Life‎^[1], volume II, New York: Vintage Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 185:

     In early July, I returned to Europe for the G-7 summit in Naples. On the way, I stopped in Riga, Latvia, to meet with the leaders of the Baltic states and celebrate the withdrawal of Russian troops from Lithuania and Latvia, a move we had helped to speed up by providing a large number of housing vouchers for Russian officers who wanted to go home.

Related terms

• Latvian
• Latvian SSR
• Lettish

Translations

country

• Acehnese: Latvia
• Afrikaans: Letland
• Albanian: Letoni f, Letonia (sq) f (definite)
• Amharic: ላትቪያ (latviya)
• Arabic: لَاتْفِيَا‎ f (lātfiyā)

  Hijazi Arabic: لاتفيا‎ f (lātfiya), لاتڤيا‎ f (lātviya)

• Armenian: Լատվիա (hy) (Latvia)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܠܲܬܒ݂ܝܼܵܐ‎ f (Lātviya)
• Asturian: Letonia (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: Latviya (az)
• Bashkir: Латвия (Latviya)
• Basque: Letonia (eu)
• Belarusian: Ла́твія f (Látvija)
• Bengali: লাতভিয়া (bn) (latbhiẏa)
• Breton: Latvia
• Bulgarian: Ла́твия (bg) f (Látvija)
• Burmese: လတ်ဗီယာ (latbiya)
• Catalan: Letònia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 拉脫維亞／拉脱维亚 (zh) (Lātuōwéiyà)

• Corsican: Lettonia f
• Crimean Tatar: Latviya
• Czech: Lotyšsko (cs) n
• Danish: Letland (da)
• Dutch: Letland (nl) n
• Esperanto: Latvio, Latvujo
• Estonian: Läti (et)
• Farefare: Latgɔ
• Faroese: Lettland n
• Finnish: Latvia (fi), Lätti (fi)
• French: Lettonie (fr) f
• Friulian: Letonie f
• Galician: Letonia (gl) f
• Georgian: ლატვია (ka) (laṭvia)
• German: Lettland (de) n
• Greek: Λεττονία (el) f (Lettonía)
• Hausa: Latvia, Latibiya
• Hawaiian: Lakawia
• Hebrew: לטוויה \ לַטְוִיָּה‎ f (lat'viyá)
• Hindi: लातविया (hi) (lātviyā), लाटविया (lāṭviyā)
• Hungarian: Lettország (hu)
• Icelandic: Lettland (is) n
• Ido: Latvia (io)
• Indonesian: Latvia (id)
• Irish: An Laitvia f, Poblacht na Laitvia f
• Italian: Lettonia (it)
• Japanese: ラトビア (ja) (Ratobia), ラトヴィア (ja) (Ratovia)
• Kazakh: Латвия (Latviä)
• Khmer: ឡេតូនី (leetounii)
• Korean: 라트비아 (ko) (Rateubia), 라뜨비야 (ko) (Ratteubiya) (North Korea)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Letonya (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Латвия (ky) (Latviya)
• Lao: ແລດໂຕນີ (lǣt tō nī), ລັດເວຍ (lo) (lat wīa)
• Latgalian: Latveja f
• Latin: Lettonia
• Latvian: Latvija (lv) f
• Lithuanian: Latvija (lt) f

  Samogitian: Latvėjė f

• Livonian: Lețmō
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: Letlaand n

  German Low German: Lettland (nds) n

• Macedonian: Летонија (mk) f (Letonija)
• Maltese: il-Latvja f
• Maori: Rāwhia
• Marathi: लाटविया (lāṭviyā)
• Mongolian: Латви (mn) (Latvi)
• Navajo: Dahńdzílgaiʼnii Bikéyah
• Norman: Lettonnie f (Jersey), Létonîn (continental Normandy)
• Northern Sami: Látvia
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Latvia (no)

  Nynorsk: Latvia (nn)

• Occitan: Letònia (oc) f
• Pashto: ليتونيا‎ f (litonyã), لتويا‎ f (latwyã)
• Pennsylvania German: Lettlond
• Persian: لتونی‎ (letoni)
• Polish: Łotwa (pl)
• Portuguese: Letónia (pt) f (Portugal), Letônia (pt) f (Brazil), Látvia (pt) f (less common)
• Romanian: Letonia (ro) f
• Russian: Ла́твия (ru) f (Látvija)
• Scots: Latvie
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Лѐто̄нија f, Ла̀твија f

  Roman: Lètōnija (sh) f, Làtvija (sh) f

• Silesian: Łotwa f
• Sinhalese: ලැට්වියාව (læṭwiyāwa)
• Slovak: Lotyšsko (sk) n
• Slovene: Látvija f
• Spanish: Letonia (es) f
• Swedish: Lettland (sv)
• Tagalog: Letonya
• Tajik: Латвия (tg) (Latviya)
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Tatar: Латвия (Latwiya)
• Thai: ลัตเวีย (th) (lát-wiia)
• Tigrinya: ላትቪያ (latviya)
• Turkish: Letonya (tr)
• Turkmen: Latwiýa
• Ukrainian: Ла́твія (uk) f (Látvija)
• Urdu: لٹویا‎ (lāṭviyā)
• Uyghur: لاتۋىيە‎ (latwiye)
• Uzbek: Latviya (uz)
• Vietnamese: Lát-vi-a
• Volapük: Latviyän (vo)
• Võro: Läti
• Welsh: Latfia (cy)
• West Frisian: Letlân (fy) n
• Yiddish: לעטלאַנד‎ n (letland), לאַטוויע‎ f (latvye)
• Yoruba: Latifia

See also

• (countries of Europe) country of Europe; Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vatican City

Anagrams

• avital

Acehnese

Proper noun

Latvia

1. Latvia

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latvian Latvija.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑtʋiɑ/, [ˈlɑt̪ʋiɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑtʋiɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Lat‧vi‧a

Proper noun

Latvia

1. Latvia

   Synonym: (dated) Lätti

Declension

Inflection of Latvia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative		Latvia	—
genitive		Latvian	—
partitive		Latviaa	—
illative		Latviaan	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Latvia	—
accusative	nom.	Latvia	—
	gen.	Latvian
genitive		Latvian	—
partitive		Latviaa	—
inessive		Latviassa	—
elative		Latviasta	—
illative		Latviaan	—
adessive		Latvialla	—
ablative		Latvialta	—
allative		Latvialle	—
essive		Latviana	—
translative		Latviaksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Latviatta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of Latvia (type kulkija)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Latviani	Latviamme
2nd person	Latviasi	Latvianne
3rd person	Latviansa

Derived terms

• latvia
• latvialainen

Anagrams

• laivat, taival, talvia, tilava, vaalit, valita

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlatvi̯a/

Proper noun

Latvia

1. Latvia

See also

• (countries of Europe) lando di Europa; Albania, Andora, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bielorusia, Belgia, Bosnia e Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Kroatia, Chipro, Chekia, Dania, Estonia, Finlando, Francia, Gruzia, Germania, Grekia, Hungaria, Islando, Irlando, Italia, Kazakstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lituania, Luxemburgia, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monako, Montenegro, Nederlando, Norvegia, Polonia, Portugal, Rumania, Rusia, San-Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hispania, Suedia, Suisia, Turkia, Ukraina, Unionita Rejio, Vatikano

Ingrian

Latvian kartta.

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian Латвия (Latvija).

Pronunciation

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑtʋiɑ/, [ˈɫɑtʋe̞]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑtʋiɑ/, [ˈɫɑd̥ʋiɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑtʋi, -ɑtʋiɑ
• Hyphenation: lat‧vi‧a

Proper noun

Latvia

1. Latvia (a country in Europe)

Declension

Declension of Latvia (type 3/kana, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	Latvia	—
genitive	Latvian	—
partitive	Latviaa	—
illative	Latviaa	—
inessive	Latviaas	—
elative	Latviast	—
allative	Latvialle	—
adessive	Latviaal	—
ablative	Latvialt	—
translative	Latviaks	—
essive	Latvianna, Latviaan	—
exessive1)	Latviant	—
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

References

• L. G. Terehova; V. G. Erdeli (1936), P. I. Maksimov and N. A. Iljin, transl., Geografia: oppikirja iƶoroin alkușkoulun neljättä klaassaa vart (toine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 46

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Latvia

1. Latvia

Related terms

• latvier
• latvisk

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Latvia

1. Latvia

Related terms

• latviar
• latvisk