Ravenna
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian Ravenna, from Latin Ravenna.
Proper noun edit
Ravenna
- A province in the region of Emilia-Romagna, in northern Italy.
- A coastal city, the present-day capital of the province of Ravenna.
- Ravenna served as the capital city of the Western Roman Empire from 402 until the latter's collapse in 476; thereafter it was the capital of the Ostrogothic Kingdom and then of the Byzantine Exarchate of Ravenna until the last exarch was executed by the Lombards in 751.
- A city, the county seat of Portage County, Ohio, United States, named after the Italian city.
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province
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Ravenna f
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Italian edit
Etymology edit
From Latin Ravenna, possibly of Etruscan origin.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Ravenna f
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Latin edit
Etymology edit
Possibly of Etruscan origin.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /raˈu̯en.na/, [räˈu̯ɛnːä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /raˈven.na/, [räˈvɛnːä]
Proper noun edit
Ravenna f sg (genitive Ravennae); first declension
Declension edit
First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
Case | Singular |
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Nominative | Ravenna |
Genitive | Ravennae |
Dative | Ravennae |
Accusative | Ravennam |
Ablative | Ravennā |
Vocative | Ravenna |
Locative | Ravennae |
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Further reading edit
- “Ravenna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Ravenna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.