Carinthia

Carinthia

English

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin Carantania. Possibly of Celtic origin, compare Proto-Celtic *karants (“friend”). The Latin toponym was also borrowed into Slavic as Proto-Slavic *korǫtanъ (with an adjective Proto-Slavic *korǫtьskъ), compare Czech Korutany and Slovene Koroška (“Carinthia”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈrɪnθiə/[1]
• Hyphenation: Ca‧rin‧thia
• Rhymes: -ɪnθiə

Proper noun

Carinthia

1. A federal state of modern Austria, with its capital in Klagenfurt.
2. A region in modern Slovenia.
3. (historical) A region of the Holy Roman and Austrian empires.
   • 1759, George Sale et al., The Modern Part of an Universal History, volume XXIX: History of the German Empire, page 2:

     Since the reign of Charlemagne, this country is divided into High and Low Germany: the firſt, towards the ſouth, comprehending the Palatinate of the Rhine, Franconia, Suabia, Bavaria, Bohemia, Moravia, Auſtria, Carinthia, Carniola, Stiria, Tyrol, the Swiſs, and the Griſons...

Synonyms

• (region in Slovenia): Slovenian Carinthia

Coordinate terms

• (states of Austria) state of Austria; Burgenland, Carinthia, Lower Austria, Upper Austria, Salzburg, Styria, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Vienna ^{(Category: en:States of Austria)}

Related terms

• Carinthian

Translations

state of Austria

Armenian: Կարինթիա (Karintʿia) Bavarian: Karntn Bengali: কের্ণ্টেন (kerṇṭen) Catalan: Caríntia Czech: Korutany (cs) pl, Korutansko (cs) n Danish: Kärnten Dutch: Karinthië Finnish: Kärnten French: Carinthie (fr) f Galician: Carintia Georgian: კარინტია (ḳarinṭia) German: Kärnten (de) n Greek: Καρινθία f (Karinthía) Hungarian: Karintia (hu) Italian: Carinzia (it) f Ladin: Ciarënzia (lld) f Macedonian: Корушка f (Koruška) Polish: Karyntia (pl) f Portuguese: Caríntia f Romanian: Carintia f Russian: Кари́нтия (ru) f (Karíntija) Slovene: Koróška (sl) f Spanish: Carintia f

region in Slovenia

Bavarian: Karntn Bengali: কের্ণ্টেন (kerṇṭen) Finnish: Carinthia Macedonian: Корушка f (Koruška) Slovene: Koróška (sl) f, Slovénska Koróška f

References

1. “Carinthia”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

Further reading

• Carinthia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Carinthia f

1. Obsolete spelling of Caríntia (used in Portugal until September 1911 and in Brazil until the 1940s).