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Proper noun
Gallia f
- France (a country in Western Europe)
Finnish
Etymology
From Latin Gallia.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Gallia
- Gaul (ancient Roman region)
Declension
Derived terms
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin Gallia.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Gallia f
- Gaul (a Roman-era region roughly corresponding to modern France and Belgium)
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From gallus (“a Gaul”) + -ia. The medieval application to Wales is by conflation.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Gallia f (genitive Galliae); first declension
- (Classical Latin) the lands of the Gauls; various tribes primarily inhabiting what is now modern-day France and Belgium
- (Medieval Latin) Alternative spelling of Wallia (“Wales”)
- (New Latin) France (a country in Western Europe)
Declension
First-declension noun, with locative.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “Gallia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Gallia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “Gallia”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC