Ravenna

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English

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 Ravenna, Ohio on Wikipedia

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian Ravenna, from Latin Ravenna.

Proper noun

Ravenna

  1. A province in the region of Emilia-Romagna, in northern Italy.
  2. A coastal city, the present-day capital of the province of Ravenna.
    Ravenna served as the capital city of the Western Roman Empire from 402 until the latter's collapse in 476; thereafter it was the capital of the Ostrogothic Kingdom and then of the Byzantine Exarchate of Ravenna until the last exarch was executed by the Lombards in 751.
  3. A city, the county seat of Portage County, Ohio, United States, named after the Italian city.

Derived terms

Translations

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Proper noun

Ravenna f

  1. Ravenna (a province of Italy)
  2. Ravenna (a city in Italy)

Derived terms

Italian

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Etymology

From Latin Ravenna, possibly of Etruscan origin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /raˈven.na/
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  • Rhymes: -enna
  • Hyphenation: Ra‧vén‧na

Proper noun

Ravenna f

  1. Ravenna (a province of Italy)
  2. Ravenna (a city in Italy)

Derived terms

Latin

Etymology

Possibly of Etruscan origin.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Ravenna f sg (genitive Ravennae); first declension

  1. Ravenna (a city in Italy)

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Ravenna
Genitive Ravennae
Dative Ravennae
Accusative Ravennam
Ablative Ravennā
Vocative Ravenna
Locative Ravennae

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Ancient Greek: Ῥᾰ́βεννᾰ (Rhábenna)
  • Italian: Ravenna

Further reading

  • “Ravenna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Ravenna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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