Rhodesia

English

Etymology 1

From Rhodes +‎ -ia, after Cecil Rhodes, director of the British South Africa Company.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹəʊˈdiːʃə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ɹoʊˈdiːʒə/

Proper noun

Rhodesia

2. (historical) A former country in Southern Africa, in what is now Zimbabwe, originally called Southern Rhodesia, named after its founder, Cecil Rhodes. [used from 1964 to 1980]
   • 2006, Tsitsi Dangarembga, The Book of Not, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 158:

     If you did that in Rhodesia, you could be punished with many years in prison.

   • 2018 April 20, Bard Wilkinson, “Absolute monarch renames Swaziland ‘eSwatini’”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     After independence, Rhodesia changed its name to Zimbabwe, Nyasaland to Malawi, and Bechuanaland to Botswana.

3. (historical) A historical region of Southern Africa, the area now occupied by Zimbabwe and Zambia. [used from 1895 to 1964]

Derived terms

• North-Eastern Rhodesia
• Northern Rhodesia
• North-Western Rhodesia
• Rhodesian
• Southern Rhodesia

Translations

historical name of Zimbabwe

• Afrikaans: Rhodesië (af)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 羅德西亞 / 罗德西亚 (Luódéxīyà, Luódéxīyǎ)

• Danish: Rhodesia n
• Dutch: Rhodesië (nl) n
• Finnish: Rhodesia (fi)
• French: Rhodésie (fr) f
• German: Rhodesien (de) n
• Irish: an Róidéis f
• Italian: Rhodesia f
• Japanese: ローデシア (Rōdeshia)
• Korean: 로디지아 (Rodijia)
• Lithuanian: Rodezija f
• Marathi: रोडेशिया (roḍeśiyā)
• Portuguese: Rodésia f
• Romanian: Rhodesia (ro) f
• Russian: Роде́зия (ru) f (Rodɛ́zija)
• Spanish: Rodesia (es) f
• Swedish: Rhodesia n
• Telugu: రొడీషియా (roḍīṣiyā)

the area now occupied by Zimbabwe and Zambia

• Danish: Rhodesia
• Lithuanian: Rodezija f
• Marathi: रोडेशिया (roḍeśiyā)
• Russian: Роде́зия (ru) f (Rodɛ́zija)
• Spanish: Rodesia (es) f
• Swedish: Rhodesia

Etymology 2

Named after G. Preston Rhodes, chairman of a colliery company.

Proper noun

Rhodesia

1. A village and civil parish in Bassetlaw district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK5680).

Anagrams

• isohedra

Latin

Proper noun

Rhodesia f sg (genitive Rhodesiae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Rhodesia

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Rhodesia
genitive	Rhodesiae
dative	Rhodesiae
accusative	Rhodesiam
ablative	Rhodesiā
vocative	Rhodesia

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /roˈdesja/ [roˈð̞e.sja]
• Rhymes: -esja
• Syllabification: Rho‧de‧sia

Proper noun

Rhodesia f

1. alternative form of Rodesia