Pennsylvania
See also: Pennsylvânia
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editPenn (“William Penn”) + sylvan (“woods”) + -ia (“land”). On March 4, 1681, Charles II of England granted a land tract to William Penn for the area that now includes Pennsylvania. Penn then founded a colony there as a place of religious freedom for Quakers, and named it for the Latin sylva, silva (“meaning "wood"”), thus "Pennsylvania" (Penn's woods).
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editPennsylvania
- A state of the United States. Capital: Harrisburg; largest city: Philadelphia.
- (historical) A former colony of England, from 1681 to 1707, and of Great Britain, from 1707 to 1776, which grew progressively larger before becoming the present state.
- The first, and historically largest, now defunct US railroad, a hallmark of the industrial age.
- An unincorporated community in Mobile County, Alabama, United States.
- A suburb of Exeter, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX9294).
- A hamlet in Cold Ashton parish, South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST7473).
Synonyms
edit- (US state): PA
Derived terms
editDerived terms
Related terms
editRelated terms
- Pittsylvania
- Spotsylvania
- Transylvania
- Sylvania
- sylvan (see for more terms)
Translations
editUS state
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railroad
See also
editStates: Alabama · Alaska · Arizona · Arkansas · California · Colorado · Connecticut · Delaware · Florida · Georgia · Hawaii · Idaho · Illinois · Indiana · Iowa · Kansas · Kentucky · Louisiana · Maine · Maryland · Massachusetts · Michigan · Minnesota · Mississippi · Missouri · Montana · Nebraska · Nevada · New Hampshire · New Jersey · New Mexico · New York · North Carolina · North Dakota · Ohio · Oklahoma · Oregon · Pennsylvania · Rhode Island · South Carolina · South Dakota · Tennessee · Texas · Utah · Vermont · Virginia · Washington · West Virginia · Wisconsin · Wyoming |
Federal District: Washington, D.C. |
Territories: American Samoa · Guam · Northern Mariana Islands · Puerto Rico · United States minor outlying islands · United States Virgin Islands |
Danish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English Pennsylvania.
Proper noun
editPennsylvania (genitive Pennsylvanias)
- Pennsylvania (a state of the United States)
Finnish
editEtymology
editFrom English Pennsylvania.
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editPennsylvania
- Pennsylvania (a state of the United States)
Declension
editInflection of Pennsylvania (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Pennsylvania | — | |
genitive | Pennsylvanian | — | |
partitive | Pennsylvaniaa | — | |
illative | Pennsylvaniaan | — | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Pennsylvania | — | |
accusative | nom. | Pennsylvania | — |
gen. | Pennsylvanian | ||
genitive | Pennsylvanian | — | |
partitive | Pennsylvaniaa | — | |
inessive | Pennsylvaniassa | — | |
elative | Pennsylvaniasta | — | |
illative | Pennsylvaniaan | — | |
adessive | Pennsylvanialla | — | |
ablative | Pennsylvanialta | — | |
allative | Pennsylvanialle | — | |
essive | Pennsylvaniana | — | |
translative | Pennsylvaniaksi | — | |
abessive | Pennsylvaniatta | — | |
instructive | — | — | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
editcompounds
German
editAlternative forms
edit- Pennsylvanien (dated to archaic)
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editPennsylvania n (proper noun, genitive Pennsylvanias or (optionally with an article) Pennsylvania)
- Pennsylvania (a state of the United States)
Related terms
editItalian
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English Pennsylvania.
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editPennsylvania f
- Pennsylvania (a state of the United States)
References
edit- ^ Pennsylvania in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Portuguese
editProper noun
editPennsylvania f
- Alternative spelling of Pensilvânia
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- English compound terms
- English terms suffixed with -ia
- English terms derived from Latin
- English 5-syllable words
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- Rhymes:English/eɪniə
- Rhymes:English/eɪniə/5 syllables
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Pennsylvania, USA
- en:States of the United States
- en:Places in the United States
- English terms with historical senses
- en:Historical dependent territories
- en:Places in England
- en:Unincorporated communities in Alabama, USA
- en:Unincorporated communities in the United States
- en:Places in Alabama, USA
- en:Suburbs in Devon, England
- en:Places in Devon, England
- en:Villages in Gloucestershire, England
- en:Villages in England
- en:Places in Gloucestershire, England
- English eponyms
- Danish terms borrowed from English
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- da:Pennsylvania, USA
- da:States of the United States
- da:Places in the United States
- Finnish terms borrowed from English
- Finnish terms derived from English
- Finnish 5-syllable words
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- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- fi:Pennsylvania, USA
- fi:States of the United States
- fi:Places in the United States
- Finnish kala-type nominals
- Finnish uncountable nouns
- German 4-syllable words
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- German lemmas
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- German neuter nouns
- de:Pennsylvania, USA
- de:States of the United States
- de:Places in the United States
- Italian terms borrowed from English
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- Rhymes:Italian/anja
- Rhymes:Italian/anja/4 syllables
- Rhymes:Italian/ɛnja
- Rhymes:Italian/ɛnja/4 syllables
- Italian lemmas
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- it:Pennsylvania, USA
- it:States of the United States
- it:Places in the United States
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese proper nouns
- Portuguese terms spelled with Y
- Portuguese feminine nouns