Venetia
English edit
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Etymology 1 edit
From Latin Venetia, from Venetī + -ia.
Proper noun edit
Venetia
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Etymology 2 edit
Uncertain.
Proper noun edit
Venetia
- A female given name from Latin used since the late Middle Ages.
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Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Venetī + -ia (“forming place names”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /u̯eˈne.ti.a/, [u̯ɛˈnɛt̪iä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /veˈnet.t͡si.a/, [veˈnɛt̪ː͡s̪iä]
Proper noun edit
Venetia f sg (genitive Venetiae); first declension
- (historical) Venetia (a region held by the Veneti in antiquity)
- (Medieval Latin, New Latin) Venice (a city and former polity in northeastern Italy)
Declension edit
First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
Case | Singular |
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Nominative | Venetia |
Genitive | Venetiae |
Dative | Venetiae |
Accusative | Venetiam |
Ablative | Venetiā |
Vocative | Venetia |
Locative | Venetiae |
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Descendants edit
- Gallo-Italic
- Italo-Dalmatian
- Old French: Venise
- Old Occitan:
- Rhaeto-Romance
- Sardinian: Venetzia
- Venetian: Venesia, Venèsia, Venexia, Venèxia, Venèzsia, Venezsia
- West Iberian
- → Greek: Βενετία (Venetía)
- → Irish: Veinéis
- → Romanian: Veneția
- → Russian: Венеция (Venecija) (see there for further descendants)
- → Slovene: Benetke