Carelia

See also: carelia and Carélia

Italian

Etymology

From Medieval Latin Carelia, Latinized from Swedish Karelen, Finnish Karjala, ultimately from an earlier Finnic endonym.

Proper noun

Carelia f

Karelia (historical Nordic Baltic-Finnic ethnocultural region, now divided along the frontiers of eastern Finland and northwestern Russia)
Karelia (a region and autonomous republic of Russia)

Derived terms

careliano

Anagrams

calerai, lacerai

Latin

Alternative forms

Karēlia

Etymology

Medieval Latin, Latinized exonym from Swedish Karelen, Finnish Karjala, ultimately from an earlier Finnic endonym. Compare Russian Каре́лия (Karélija), loanword of medieval Latinate provenance existing alongside direct borrowing Ка́рьяла (Kárʹjala).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /kaˈreː.li.a/, [käˈreːlʲiä]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kaˈre.li.a/, [käˈrɛːliä]

Proper noun

Carēlia f sg (genitive Carēliae); first declension (Medieval Latin, New Latin)

Karelia (historical Nordic Baltic-Finnic ethnocultural region, now divided along the frontiers of eastern Finland and northwestern Russia)
- Finnia (New Latin)
  Per Secundum Bellum Mundanum, Unio Sovietica Finniam capere saepenumero quaesivit, cum Finnia Careliae, Sallae, Kuusamonis et Petsamonis partes et aliquas insulas amisit, sed independens mansit.
  Throughout the Second World War, the Soviet Union repeatedly sought to capture Finland, when Finland lost parts of Karelia, Salla, Kuusamo, Petsamo, and some islands, but remained independent.
Karelia (a region and autonomous republic of Russia)

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Carēlia
Genitive	Carēliae
Dative	Carēliae
Accusative	Carēliam
Ablative	Carēliā
Vocative	Carēlia
Locative	Carēliae

Derived terms

Carēliānus, Carēliānī
carēlicus
carēliēnsis

Descendants

Asturian: Carelia
→ Basque: Karelia
→ Belarusian: Карэ́лія (Karélija)
Catalan: Carèlia
→ English: Karelia
French: Carélie
Galician: Carelia
→ Greek: Καρελία (Karelía)
→ Icelandic: Karelía
Italian: Carelia
→ Polish: Karelia
Portuguese: Carélia
Romanian: Carelia
→ Russian: Каре́лия (Karélija)
Sicilian: Carelia
Slovak: Karélia
Spanish: Carelia
→ Ukrainian: Каре́лія (Karélija)

Spanish

Alternative forms

Karelia

Etymology

From Medieval Latin Carelia, Latinized from Swedish Karelen, Finnish Karjala, ultimately from an earlier Finnic endonym.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kaˈɾelja/ [kaˈɾe.lja]
Rhymes: -elja
Syllabification: Ca‧re‧lia

Proper noun

Carelia f

Karelia (historical Nordic Baltic-Finnic ethnocultural region, now divided along the frontiers of eastern Finland and northwestern Russia)
Karelia (a region and autonomous republic of Russia)
Synonym: República de Carelia

Related terms

carelio