provincia
See also: província
Asturian
Etymology
From Latin prōvincia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɾoˈbinθja/, [pɾoˈβ̞ĩn̟.θja]
Noun
provincia f (plural provincies)
- province
Interlingua
Noun
provincia (plural provincias)
- province
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin prōvincia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /proˈvin.t͡ʃa/
- Rhymes: -intʃa
- Hyphenation: pro‧vìn‧cia
Noun
provincia f (plural province or provincie)
- province
- district
- country
Further reading
- provincia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *prōwinkjā. Equivalent to Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to go over”) and vincio (“I bind, tie up, fetter”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *frawjô.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /proːˈu̯in.ki.a/, [proːˈu̯ɪŋkiä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /proˈvin.t͡ʃi.a/, [proˈvin̠ʲt͡ʃiä]
Noun
prōvincia f (genitive prōvinciae); first declension
- province, office, duty, command
- Provinciam remitto.
- I abandon my province.
- Provinciam remitto.
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
- Sicilian: pruvincia
- → Middle Dutch: provincie
- Dutch: provincie
- Afrikaans: provinsie
- → Malay: provinsi
- Indonesian: provinsi
- → Acehnese: propinsi
- Limburgish: provinsje
- Dutch: provincie
- → Middle High German: provincie
- German: Provinz
- → Danish: provins
- → Norwegian: provins
- → Swedish: provins
- Yiddish: פּראָווינץ (provints)
- German: Provinz
- → Old French: province, provinz, pruvince
- Middle French: province
- French: province
- → Middle English: provynce, provynse, province, provyns
- English: province
- Tok Pisin: provins
- Scots: province
- English: province
- Norman: provînche, provinche
- Middle French: province
- → Polish: prowincja
- → Russian: провинция (provincija)
- → Portuguese: província
- → Romanian: provincie
- → Spanish: provincia
- → Bikol Central: probinsya
- → Cebuano: probinsiya
- → Tagalog: probinsiya
- → Sardinian: provìntzia
region in southern France:
- Old Occitan: Proensa
- Catalan: Provença
- Occitan: Provença, Prouvènço
- → French: Provence
- → English: Provence
- → Italian: Provenza
- → French: Provence
- 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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- provincia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, 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 official 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)
- to entrust some one with an official duty, a province: provinciam alicui decernere, mandare
- “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 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 810
Piedmontese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pruˈviŋt͡ʃa/
Noun
provincia f (plural provincie)
- province
- Synonym: provinsa
Related terms
- provincial
Portuguese
Noun
provincia f (plural provincias)
- Obsolete spelling of província
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin prōvincia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /pɾoˈbinθja/ [pɾoˈβ̞ĩn̟.θja]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /pɾoˈbinsja/ [pɾoˈβ̞ĩn.sja]
Audio (Colombia) (file) - (Spain) Rhymes: -inθja
- (Latin America) Rhymes: -insja
- Syllabification: pro‧vin‧cia
Noun
provincia f (plural provincias)
- province
Related terms
- provincial
Descendants
- → Bikol Central: probinsya
- → Cebuano: probinsiya
- → Tagalog: probinsiya
Further reading
- “provincia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014