Lusitania

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See also: Lusitânia

English

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Etymology

From Latin Lūsītānia.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Lusitania

  1. An ancient Roman province, roughly corresponding to modern Portugal.
  2. (archaic, poetic) Portugal.
  3. (historical) The RMS Lusitania, a British ship that was sunk in 1915 during World War I

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Latin

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Etymology

From lūsītānus +‎ -ia, named after the Lusitanians, a Indo-European tribe of the Iberian peninsula (from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia). The name's origin is uncertain but it is generally agreed that the tribe converged with a heavy Celtic (possibly Celtiberian) influence.

The province within the Roman Empire

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Lūsītānia f sg (genitive Lūsītāniae); first declension

  1. A province of Roman Hispania, covering what is now southern Portugal and parts of western Spain such as Extremadura.
  2. (New Latin) Portugal (a country in Western Europe)

Declension

  • First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
singular
nominative Lūsītānia
genitive Lūsītāniae
dative Lūsītāniae
accusative Lūsītāniam
ablative Lūsītāniā
vocative Lūsītānia
locative Lūsītāniae

Descendants

  • English: Lusitania
  • Spanish: Lusitania

References

  • Lūsītānia” on page 1157 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
  • Lusitania”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Lusitania in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Koch, John T (2011). Tartessian 2: The Inscription of Mesas do Castelinho ro and the Verbal Complex. Preliminaries to Historical Phonology. Oxbow Books, Oxford, UK. pp. 33–34. →ISBN.

Spanish

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Lūsītānia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lusiˈtanja/
  • Rhymes: -anja
  • Syllabification: Lu‧si‧ta‧nia

Proper noun

Lusitania f

  1. Lusitania (ancient Roman province)