Lusitania
See also: Lusitânia
English
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- (UK) IPA(key): /luː.sɪˈteɪ.nɪə/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (US) IPA(key): /lu.sɪˈteɪ.ni.ə/
- Rhymes: -eɪniə
Proper noun
editLusitania
- An ancient Roman province, roughly corresponding to modern Portugal.
- (archaic, poetic) Portugal.
- (historical) The RMS Lusitania, a British ship that was sunk in 1915 during World War I
Derived terms
editTranslations
editancient Roman province
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Latin
editEtymology
editFrom lūsītānus + -ia, named after the Lusitanians, a Indo-European tribe of the Iberian peninsula (from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia). The name's origin is uncertain but it is generally agreed that the tribe converged with a heavy Celtic (possibly Celtiberian) influence.
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /luː.siːˈtaː.ni.a/, [ɫ̪uːs̠iːˈt̪äːniä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /lu.siˈta.ni.a/, [lus̬iˈt̪äːniä]
Proper noun
editLūsītānia f sg (genitive Lūsītāniae); first declension
- A province of Roman Hispania, covering what is now southern Portugal and parts of western Spain such as Extremadura.
- (New Latin) Portugal (a country in Western Europe)
Declension
edit- First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
singular | |
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nominative | Lūsītānia |
genitive | Lūsītāniae |
dative | Lūsītāniae |
accusative | Lūsītāniam |
ablative | Lūsītāniā |
vocative | Lūsītānia |
locative | Lūsītāniae |
Related terms
editDescendants
editReferences
edit- “Lūsītānia” on page 1157 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
- “Lusitania”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Lusitania in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Koch, John T (2011). Tartessian 2: The Inscription of Mesas do Castelinho ro and the Verbal Complex. Preliminaries to Historical Phonology. Oxbow Books, Oxford, UK. pp. 33–34. →ISBN.
Spanish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin Lūsītānia.
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editLusitania f
- Lusitania (ancient Roman province)
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