Cornubia

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Proper noun

Cornubia

  1. (literary) Cornwall
  2. A southern suburb of Brisbane, Australia.
  3. A city under construction near Durban in South Africa

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *Körnɨw + -ia, with the common Medieval confusion of b and v.[1]

Proper noun

Cornubia f sg (genitive Cornubiae); first declension

  1. (Medieval Latin) Cornwall, a county in south west England
    • ca. 670 CE - ca. 710 CE, Aldhelmus Malmesberiensis, Aldhelmi Carmen Rhythmicum :
      Quando proféctus freram - Usque díram Domnóniam - Pér caréntem Cornúbiam...
      When I had set forth - toward dire Devon - through Cornwall lacking...[2]

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

singular
nominative Cornubia
genitive Cornubiae
dative Cornubiae
accusative Cornubiam
ablative Cornubiā
vocative Cornubia

References

  1. ^ Jackson, K. H. (1953) Language and History in Early Britain, Edinburgh University Press, pages 377-378
  2. ^ Howlett, David R. (1995) “Aldhelmi Carmen Rhythmicum”, in Archivum Latinitatis Medii Aevi-Bulletin du Cange (ALMA)‎
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