Pennsylvania
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See also: Pennsylvânia
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Penn (“William Penn”) + sylvan (“woods”) + -ia (“land”). On March 4, 1681, Charles II of England granted a land tract to William Penn for the area that now includes Pennsylvania. Penn then founded a colony there as a place of religious freedom for Quakers, and named it for the Latin sylva, silva (“meaning "wood"”), thus "Pennsylvania" (Penn's woods).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Pennsylvania
- A state of the United States. Capital: Harrisburg; largest city: Philadelphia.
- (historical) A former colony of England, from 1681 to 1707, and of Great Britain, from 1707 to 1776, which grew progressively larger before becoming the present state.
- The first, and historically largest, now defunct US railroad, a hallmark of the industrial age.
- An unincorporated community in Mobile County, Alabama, United States.
- A suburb of Exeter, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX9294).
- A hamlet in Cold Ashton parish, South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST7473).
Synonyms
- (US state): PA
Derived terms
Derived terms
Related terms
Related terms
- Pittsylvania
- Spotsylvania
- Transylvania
- Sylvania
- sylvan (see for more terms)
Translations
US state
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railroad
See also
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| Federal District: Washington, D.C. |
| Territories: American Samoa · Guam · Northern Mariana Islands · Puerto Rico · United States minor outlying islands · United States Virgin Islands |
Danish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from English Pennsylvania.
Proper noun
Pennsylvania (genitive Pennsylvanias)
- Pennsylvania (a state of the United States)
Finnish
Etymology
From English Pennsylvania.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Pennsylvania
- Pennsylvania (a state of the United States)
Declension
| Inflection of Pennsylvania (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | Pennsylvania | — | ||
| genitive | Pennsylvanian | — | ||
| partitive | Pennsylvaniaa | — | ||
| illative | Pennsylvaniaan | — | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | Pennsylvania | — | ||
| accusative | nom. | Pennsylvania | — | |
| gen. | Pennsylvanian | |||
| genitive | Pennsylvanian | — | ||
| partitive | Pennsylvaniaa | — | ||
| inessive | Pennsylvaniassa | — | ||
| elative | Pennsylvaniasta | — | ||
| illative | Pennsylvaniaan | — | ||
| adessive | Pennsylvanialla | — | ||
| ablative | Pennsylvanialta | — | ||
| allative | Pennsylvanialle | — | ||
| essive | Pennsylvaniana | — | ||
| translative | Pennsylvaniaksi | — | ||
| abessive | Pennsylvaniatta | — | ||
| instructive | — | — | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
Derived terms
compounds
German
Alternative forms
- Pennsylvanien (dated to archaic)
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Pennsylvania n (proper noun, genitive Pennsylvanias or (optionally with an article) Pennsylvania)
- Pennsylvania (a state of the United States)
Related terms
Italian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from English Pennsylvania.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Pennsylvania f
- Pennsylvania (a state of the United States)
References
- ^ Pennsylvania in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Portuguese
Proper noun
Pennsylvania f
- Alternative spelling of Pensilvânia