Lusitania
See also: Lusitânia
English
Etymology
From Latin Lūsītānia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /luːsɪˈtʰeɪnɪə/
- Rhymes: -eɪniə
Proper noun
Lusitania
- ancient Roman province, roughly corresponding to modern Portugal
- (archaic, poetic) Portugal
- an abbreviation for the RMS Lusitania, a British ship that was sunk in 1915 during World War I
Derived terms
- Lusitanian
Translations
ancient Roman province
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Latin
Etymology
From lūsītānus + -ia, named after the Lusitanians, a Proto-Indo-European tribe of the Iberian peninsula (from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia). The name's origin is uncertain but it is generally agreed that the tribe converged with a heavy Celtic (possibly Celtiberian) influence.
The province within the Roman Empire
Pronunciation
(Classical) IPA(key): /luː.siːˈtaː.ni.a/, [ɫ̪uːs̠iːˈt̪äːniä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /lu.siˈta.ni.a/, [lus̬iˈt̪äːniä]
Proper noun
Lūsītānia f sg (genitive Lūsītāniae); first declension
- A province of Roman Hispania, covering what is now southern Portugal and parts of western Spain such as Extremadura.
Declension
- First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
| Case | Singular |
|---|---|
| Nominative | Lūsītānia |
| Genitive | Lūsītāniae |
| Dative | Lūsītāniae |
| Accusative | Lūsītāniam |
| Ablative | Lūsītāniā |
| Vocative | Lūsītānia |
| Locative | Lūsītāniae |
Related terms
- Lūsītānī
- Lūsītānus
Descendants
- English: Lusitania
- Spanish: Lusitania
References
- “Lūsītānia” on page 1157 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
- “Lusitania”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Lusitania in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Koch, John T (2011). Tartessian 2: The Inscription of Mesas do Castelinho ro and the Verbal Complex. Preliminaries to Historical Phonology. Oxbow Books, Oxford, UK. pp. 33–34. →ISBN.
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin Lūsītānia.
Proper noun
Lusitania f
- Lusitania (ancient Roman province)