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English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin Galatia, from Ancient Greek Γαλατία (Galatía).
Proper noun
Galatia
- A region of ancient Asia Minor, in what is now central Turkey; a province of ancient Rome.
- A village in Saline County, Illinois.
- A minor city in Barton County, Kansas.
Translations
Hawaiian
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Galatia
- Galatians (book of the Bible)
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Γᾰλᾰτῐ́ᾱ (Galatíā).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Galatīa f sg (genitive Galatīae); first declension
- Galatia (region of Anatolia, later a Roman province)
- Holonym: Anatolia
- Meronyms: Ancyra, Pessinus, Rosologiacum, Tavium
Declension
First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
Descendants
References
- “Galatia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Galatia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.