Styria

English

Alternative forms

• Stiria (dated)

Etymology

From Medieval Latin Styria, variant of Stiria, from Stira (“the Austrian city of Steyr”) + -ia (forming place names). Although no longer part of Styria, Steyr was the site of the court of the margraves of the March of Styria. It was itself named for its position at the confluence of the rivers Enns and Steyr.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪɹiə

Proper noun

Styria

1. A southeastern state of Austria, with its capital in Graz.
2. (historical) The Duchy of Styria, a duchy within the Holy Roman Empire, located in modern-day southern Austria and northern Slovenia.
3. (historical) A former Austrian marchland.

Coordinate terms

• (states of Austria) state of Austria; Burgenland, Carinthia, Lower Austria, Upper Austria, Salzburg, Styria, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Vienna ^{(Category: en:States of Austria)}

Derived terms

• Styrian

Translations

Austrian state

• Armenian: Շտիրիա (Štiria)
• Basque: Estiria
• Bavarian: Steiamoak
• Catalan: Estíria
• Czech: Štýrsko (cs) n
• Danish: Steiermark
• Dutch: Stiermarken n
• French: Styrie (fr) f
• Galician: Estiria
• Georgian: შტირია (šṭiria)
• German: Steiermark (de) f
• Greek: Στυρία f (Styría)
• Hungarian: Stájerország (hu)
• Italian: Stiria f
• Latin: Styria f
• Latvian: Štirija f
• Lithuanian: Štirija f
• Macedonian: Штаерска f (Štaerska)
• Polish: Styria (pl) f
• Portuguese: Estíria f
• Romanian: Stiria f
• Russian: Шти́рия (ru) f (Štírija)
• Serbo-Croatian: Štajerska (sh) f
• Slovak: Štajersko (sk) n
• Slovene: Štajerska (sl) f
• Spanish: Estiria f

Further reading

• Styria on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• March of Styria on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• yatris

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin Styria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɘ.rja/

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• Rhymes: -ɘrja
• Syllabification: Sty‧ria

Proper noun

Styria f (related adjective styryjski)

1. Styria (a state of Austria)

Declension

Declension of Styria

	singular
nominative	Styria
genitive	Styrii
dative	Styrii
accusative	Styrię
instrumental	Styrią
locative	Styrii
vocative	Styrio

Derived terms

nouns

• Styryjczyk
• Styryjka

 

Further reading

• Styria in Polish dictionaries at PWN