provincia

See also: província

Interlingua

Noun

provincia (plural provincias)

1. province

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Asturian

Etymology

From Latin prōvincia

Noun

provincia (epicene, plural provincias)

1. province

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin prōvincia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pro.ˈvin.t͡ʃa/

Noun

provincia f (plural province or provincie)

1. province
2. district
3. country

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Latin

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to go over”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *frawjô.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /proːˈwin.ki.a/, [proːˈwɪŋ.ki.a]

Noun

prōvincia f (genitive prōvinciae); first declension

1. province, office, duty, command

   Provinciam remitto.

   I abandon my province.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	prōvincia	prōvinciae
Genitive	prōvinciae	prōvinciārum
Dative	prōvinciae	prōvinciīs
Accusative	prōvinciam	prōvinciās
Ablative	prōvinciā	prōvinciīs
Vocative	prōvincia	prōvinciae

Derived terms

• prōvinciālis
• prōvinciātim

Descendants

• Lombard: proìnsa
• → Catalan: província
• → Italian: provincia
• → Middle Dutch: provincie
  • Dutch: provincie
    • Afrikaans: provinsie
    • → Malay: provinsi
      • Indonesian: propinsi, provinsi
      • → Acehnese: propinsi
  • Limburgish: provinsje
• → Middle High German: provincie
  • German: Provinz
    • → Danish: provins
    • → Norwegian: provins
    • → Swedish: provins
  • Yiddish: פּראָווינץ‎ (provints)
• → Old French: province, provinz, pruvince
  • Middle French: province
    • French: province
    • → Middle English: provynce, provynse, province, provyns
      • English: province
        • Tok Pisin: provins
      • Scots: province
  • Norman: provînche, provinche
• → Polish: prowincja
  • → Russian: провинция (provincija)
• → Portuguese: província
• → Romanian: provincie
• → Spanish: provincia
  • → Cebuano: probinsiya
  • → Tagalog: probinsiya
• → Sardinian: provìntzia

region in southern France:

• Old Occitan: Proensa
  • Catalan: Provença
  • Occitan: Provença, Prouvènço
    • → French: Provence
      • → English: Provence
    • → Italian: Provenza
• Old Portuguese: Proença
  • Galician: Provenza
  • Portuguese: Provença

References

• provincia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• provincia in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• provincia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• provincia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to entrust some one with an official duty, a province: provinciam alicui decernere, mandare
    
  • to draw lots for the provinces: provincias sortiri (Liv. 38. 35)
    
  • (the magistrates) arrange among themselves the administration of the provinces, the offical spheres of duty: provincias inter se comparant
    
  • to set out for one's province: in provinciam proficisci (Liv. 38. 35)
    
  • to exchange provinces: provincias permutare
    
  • to manage, govern a province: provinciam administrare, obtinere
    
  • to visit, traverse a province: provinciam obire
    
  • to make Asia into a Roman province: Asiam in provinciae formam (in provinciam) redigere (B. G. 1. 45)
    
• provincia in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• provincia in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• provincia in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume III, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 810

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Portuguese

Noun

provincia f (plural provincias)

1. Obsolete spelling of província

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• (Castilian) IPA^(key): /pɾoˈbinθja/, [pɾoˈβĩn̟θja]
• (Latin America) IPA^(key): /pɾoˈbinsja/, [pɾoˈβĩnsja]
• Hyphenation: pro‧vin‧cia

Noun

provincia f (plural provincias)

1. province

Descendants

• → Cebuano: probinsiya
• → Tagalog: probinsiya