Britannia
English
Etymology
From Latin Britannia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɹɪˈtænɪə/
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Proper noun
Britannia
- A female personification of Britain or the United Kingdom.
- 1740, James Thomson (lyrics), Thomas Arne (music), Rule, Britannia!
- Rule, Britannia! Britannia rule the waves / Britons never, never shall be slaves
- 1740, James Thomson (lyrics), Thomas Arne (music), Rule, Britannia!
- (historical) A province of the Roman Empire covering most of the island of Britain.
- A settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Derived terms
- Britannia metal
- Britannia silver
- Cool Britannia
See also
- John Bull
Finnish
Etymology
From Latin Britannia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbritɑnːiɑ/, [ˈbrit̪ɑnˌniɑ]
- Rhymes: -iɑ
- Syllabification(key): Bri‧tan‧ni‧a
Proper noun
Britannia
- (ambiguously) United Kingdom, Great Britain, Britain (used to refer to the state of United Kingdom or its largest island consisting of England, Scotland and Wales)
- Britain (Roman province)
- Britannia (female personification of Britain)
Declension
| Inflection of Britannia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | Britannia | — | |
| genitive | Britannian | — | |
| partitive | Britanniaa | — | |
| illative | Britanniaan | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Britannia | — | |
| accusative | nom. | Britannia | — |
| gen. | Britannian | ||
| genitive | Britannian | — | |
| partitive | Britanniaa | — | |
| inessive | Britanniassa | — | |
| elative | Britanniasta | — | |
| illative | Britanniaan | — | |
| adessive | Britannialla | — | |
| ablative | Britannialta | — | |
| allative | Britannialle | — | |
| essive | Britanniana | — | |
| translative | Britanniaksi | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| abessive | Britanniatta | — | |
| comitative | — | — | |
| Possessive forms of Britannia (type kulkija) | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | Britanniani | Britanniamme |
| 2nd person | Britanniasi | Britannianne |
| 3rd person | Britanniansa | |
Italian
Etymology
From Latin Britannia.
Proper noun
Britannia f
- (archaic) Great Britain, Britain
- Britain (Roman province)
- Britannia (female personification of Britain)
Anagrams
- antibrina
Latin
Alternative forms
- Brittannia, Brittania, Britania
- Bretannia, Brettannia, Brettania
- Brictania, Brintania (Late Latin), Brytannia (Medieval Latin)
Etymology
Attested from the 1st century BCE, directly or from Ancient Greek Βρεττανία (Brettanía), Πρεττανία (Prettanía) (in Diodorus), earlier νῆσος Πρεττανική (nêsos Prettanikḗ) or Βρεττανίαι (Brettaníai), used by Pytheas (4th century BCE) of the entire archipelago now known as the British Isles.
The Ancient Greek name is ultimately from a Celtic ethnonym, reconstructed as early Brythonic *Pritani, perhaps from a Proto-Celtic *Kʷritanī, *Kʷritenī, whence Welsh Prydyn (“Picts”), Old Irish Cruthne, Cru(i)then-túath (“Picts”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷer- (“to do”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /briˈtan.ni.a/, [brɪˈt̪änːiä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /briˈtan.ni.a/, [briˈt̪änːiä]
- Note: only found in hexameters with a short first syllable, except for a single instance of /britt-/ in Lucretius. Sergius on Donatus testifies to /a:n/ rather than /ann/. Romance descendants seem to consistently point to /tt/.
Proper noun
Britannia f (genitive Britanniae); first declension
- Britain, i.e. the country of the Britons
- Great Britain
- (Medieval Latin) Brittany
- Synonym: Armorica
- (Medieval Latin) Wales
- Synonyms: Cambria, Wallia
Usage notes
- (Wales): In medieval Welsh sources before the 13th century, Britannia was used both in an expansive sense to refer to the island of Britain and in a restricted sense to refer to Wales, i.e. the remaining land of the Britons. From the 12th century the restricted sense of the term was increasingly displaced by Wallia, a name derived from Old English, and later by Cambria.
Declension
First-declension noun, with locative.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | Britannia | Britanniae |
| Genitive | Britanniae | Britanniārum |
| Dative | Britanniae | Britanniīs |
| Accusative | Britanniam | Britanniās |
| Ablative | Britanniā | Britanniīs |
| Vocative | Britannia | Britanniae |
| Locative | Britanniae | Britanniīs |
Derived terms
- Britannia Minor (“Brittany”)
Related terms
- britannicus
- britannus
- Britannus, genitive singular and nominative plural Britannī
- Brītō / Brittō
Descendants
- Catalan: Bretanya
- → Dutch: Brittannië
- → English: Britannia
- → German: Britannien
- → Hungarian: Britannia
- Italian: Bretagna
- → Old English: Breten
- Old French: Bretaigne
- → English: Britain, Brittany
- → Japanese: ブリテン (Buriten)
- → Korean: 브리튼 (Beuriteun)
- → Mandarin: 不列顛 (Bùlièdiān)
- French: Bretagne
- → Japanese: ブルターニュ (Burutānyu)
- → English: Britain, Brittany
- Old Portuguese: Bretanna
- Portuguese: Bretanha, Britânia
- Spanish: Bretaña
References
- “Britann-” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present