Galatia

Galatia

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Galatia, from Ancient Greek Γαλατία (Galatía).

Proper noun

Galatia

1. A region of ancient Asia Minor, in what is now central Turkey; a province of ancient Rome.
2. A village in Saline County, Illinois.
3. A city in Barton County, Kansas.

Related terms

• Galatians

Translations

region of Asia Minor

Armenian: Գաղատիա (Gałatia) Catalan: Galàcia f Finnish: Galatia (fi) French: Galatie (fr) f German: Galatien (de) n Greek: Ancient Greek: Γαλατία f (Galatía) Irish: an Ghaláit f Italian: Galazia f Latin: Galatia f Polish: Galacja (pl) f Portuguese: Galácia (pt) f Romanian: Galatia (ro) f Russian: Галатия (ru) f (Galatija) Spanish: Galacia f Swedish: Galatien (sv) n Tagalog: Galasya Turkish: Galatya

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Hawaiian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.laˈki.a/, [kələˈtijə]

Proper noun

Galatia

1. Galatians (book of the Bible)

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Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Γᾰλᾰτῐ́ᾱ (Galatíā).

Proper noun

Galatīa f sg (genitive Galatīae); first declension

1. Galatia (region of Anatolia, later a Roman province)

   Holonym: Anatolia

   Meronyms: Ancyra, Pessinus, Rosologiacum, Tavium

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Galatīa
Genitive	Galatīae
Dative	Galatīae
Accusative	Galatīam
Ablative	Galatīā
Vocative	Galatīa
Locative	Galatīae

Related terms

• Galata
• galaticor
• Galaticus

 

Descendants

• English: Galatia
• French: Galatie

References

• “Galatia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Galatia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette