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Latin
Etymology 1
From Ancient Greek Βρεττανίς (Brettanís). Also see Britannia.
Pronunciation
Adjective
Britannis f sg (genitive Britannidos or Britannidis); third declension
- British
Proper noun
Britannis f sg (genitive Britannidos or Britannidis); third declension
- (in the plural) British Isles
c. 5th century CE, Priscianus Caesariensis, De Orbis Situ Prisciani ex Dionysio Periegetes, lines 577–580:Ast aliae [insulae] oceani iuxta boreotidas actas sunt geminae, Rhenique Britannides ostia cernunt; hic etenim lasso perrumpit Tethya cursu. Has tamen haud valeat spatio superare per orbem insula.- However there are other twin islands near the northern shorelines of the ocean, separating the British Isles from the mouth of the Rhine; for here, the flow exhausted, it breaks through into the sea. There is yet hardly an island in the world that is able to surpass these in size.
Declension
Third-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant or non-Greek-type).
1In poetry.
Further reading
- Britannis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Britannis in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
- “Britann-” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
Noun
Britannīs m
- dative/ablative plural of Britannus (“Briton”)
Adjective
Britannīs
- dative/ablative masculine/feminine/neuter plural of Britannus (“British”)