Romania

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English

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Romania (in dark green) within Europe.

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Romanian român (Romanian) (in turn from Latin romanus (Roman)) + -ia. Doublet of Romagna.

Alternative forms

Proper noun

Romania

  1. A country in Southeast Europe. Capital and largest city: Bucharest.
Derived terms
Translations

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Etymology 2

From Latin Rōmānia, from Byzantine Greek Ῥωμανία (Rhōmanía), itself from Latin rōmānus.

Alternative forms

Proper noun

Romania

  1. (academic, historical, linguistics) The Latin or Romance-speaking areas of Europe, collectively.
  2. (historical) Synonym of Byzantine Empire, also used for its former territories.
    • 1973, Arnold Joseph Toynbee, Constantine Porphyrogenitus and his world, page 682:
      There is a significant coincidence of dates between several events: the splitting of the Paulician community in Rhomania in consequence of Séryios’s innovations; the breach between Séryios’s partisans and the East Roman Imperial Government, []
    • 1988, Donald M. Nicol, Byzantium and Venice: A Study in Diplomatic and Cultural Relations, page 208:
      The Doge of Venice was honored with his full title of dominator of one-quarter and one-eighth of the whole Empire of Romania; and he was promised repossession of all the rights and properties that his people had held in Constantinople in the years of the Latin occupation.
    • 1989, Ferenc Makk, The Árpáds and the Comneni: political relations between Hungary and Byzantium in the 12th century, page 110:
      In this letter the basileus informed the Pope that Béla III had attacked Serbia, since he was not content with his own country, “which he acquired with difficulties and with the help of the armies and the money of Rhomania [i.e. Byzantium]”.
    • 1989, David Jacoby, “From Byzantium to Latin Romania: Continuity and Change”, in Latins and Greeks in the Eastern Mediterranean After 1204, page 1:
      The Fourth Crusade ended in 1204 with the Western or Latin conquest of Constantinople and signalled the beginning of a new era in the history of the Byzantine lands or Romania.
    • 1999, Rustam Shukurov, “Turkoman and Byzantine Self-Identity: Some reflections on the Logic of the Title-Making in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Anatolia”, in Eastern Approaches to Byzantium: Papers from the Thirty-Third Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies:
      If the Constantinopolitan Byzantines regarded the Anatolian Turkic territories as lands temporarily lost from their indivisible universal Rhomania, the Turkoman rulers of the twelfth century considered Rhomania as being factually divided between several rulers.
    • 2001, David Jacoby, “Changing Economic Patterns in Latin Romania: The Impact of the West”, in The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World, page 197:
      The dramatic fall of Constantinople in 1204 and the Latin conquest of the Empire’s provinces in the following decade resulted in the dismemberment of Romania.
    • 2013, Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (Pope Pius II), trans. Robert Brown, Europe (c.1400-1458), page 69:
      Next to them, the maritime region extending south to the Hellespont is Romania—a Greek nation, though it was once barbarian, and it is returning to barbarism in our own time, now that the empire of the Greeks has been destroyed and the Turks hold sway. The capital city of this country is Byzantium, formerly called Agios.

Etymology 3

Proper noun

Romania

  1. Obsolete form of Romagna.
    • 1629 [1619], Paolo Sarpi, translated by Nathaniel Brent, The Historie of the Councel of Trent , London: Bonham Norton and John Bill, →OCLC, book 1, paragraph 97, page 43:
      In the end of Ianuarie, Borbon passed the Po with all his troupes, and directed his iourney towards Romania: []

Anagrams

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Pronunciation

Proper noun

Romania f

  1. Romania (a country in Southeast Europe)

Derived terms

Finnish

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Etymology

From Romanian România.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈromɑniɑ/,
  • Rhymes: -iɑ
  • Hyphenation(key): Ro‧ma‧nia

Proper noun

Romania

  1. Romania (a country in Southeast Europe)

Declension

Inflection of Romania (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative Romania
genitive Romanian
partitive Romaniaa
illative Romaniaan
singular plural
nominative Romania
accusative nom. Romania
gen. Romanian
genitive Romanian
partitive Romaniaa
inessive Romaniassa
elative Romaniasta
illative Romaniaan
adessive Romanialla
ablative Romanialta
allative Romanialle
essive Romaniana
translative Romaniaksi
abessive Romaniatta
instructive
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of Romania (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
first-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative Romaniani
accusative nom. Romaniani
gen. Romaniani
genitive Romaniani
partitive Romaniaani
inessive Romaniassani
elative Romaniastani
illative Romaniaani
adessive Romaniallani
ablative Romanialtani
allative Romanialleni
essive Romanianani
translative Romaniakseni
abessive Romaniattani
instructive
comitative
second-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative Romaniasi
accusative nom. Romaniasi
gen. Romaniasi
genitive Romaniasi
partitive Romaniaasi
inessive Romaniassasi
elative Romaniastasi
illative Romaniaasi
adessive Romaniallasi
ablative Romanialtasi
allative Romaniallesi
essive Romanianasi
translative Romaniaksesi
abessive Romaniattasi
instructive
comitative
first-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative Romaniamme
accusative nom. Romaniamme
gen. Romaniamme
genitive Romaniamme
partitive Romaniaamme
inessive Romaniassamme
elative Romaniastamme
illative Romaniaamme
adessive Romaniallamme
ablative Romanialtamme
allative Romaniallemme
essive Romanianamme
translative Romaniaksemme
abessive Romaniattamme
instructive
comitative
second-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative Romanianne
accusative nom. Romanianne
gen. Romanianne
genitive Romanianne
partitive Romaniaanne
inessive Romaniassanne
elative Romaniastanne
illative Romaniaanne
adessive Romaniallanne
ablative Romanialtanne
allative Romaniallenne
essive Romaniananne
translative Romaniaksenne
abessive Romaniattanne
instructive
comitative
third-person possessor
singular plural
nominative Romaniansa
accusative nom. Romaniansa
gen. Romaniansa
genitive Romaniansa
partitive Romaniaansa
inessive Romaniassaan
Romaniassansa
elative Romaniastaan
Romaniastansa
illative Romaniaansa
adessive Romaniallaan
Romaniallansa
ablative Romanialtaan
Romanialtansa
allative Romanialleen
Romaniallensa
essive Romanianaan
Romanianansa
translative Romaniakseen
Romaniaksensa
abessive Romaniattaan
Romaniattansa
instructive
comitative

Derived terms

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Anagrams

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ῥωμανία (Rhōmanía).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Romania f

  1. (academic, historical, linguistics) the Romance speaking areas of Europe

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Italian

Etymology 1

Internationalism.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ro.maˈni.a/
  • Rhymes: -ia
  • Hyphenation: Ro‧ma‧nì‧a

Proper noun

Romania f

  1. Romania (a country in Southeast Europe)
Derived terms

See also

Further reading

Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Latin Rōmānia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /roˈma.nja/
  • Rhymes: -anja
  • Hyphenation: Ro‧mà‧nia

Proper noun

Romania f

  1. (historical or linguistics) Romania (Latin or Romance-speaking of Europe)

Further reading

Anagrams

Latin

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ῥωμᾱνῐ́ᾱ (Rhōmāníā).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Rōmānia f sg (genitive Rōmāniae); first declension

  1. (New Latin) Romania (a country in Southeast Europe)
  2. (historical, Late Latin) Roman Empire
    • lived ca. 385 CE - ca. 420 CE, Orosius, Historiae adversum paganos 7.43.5:
      Nam ego quoque ipse virum quemdam Narbonensem ... audivi, se familiarissimum Ataulpho apud Narbonam fuisse: ac de eo ... didicisse, quod ... referre solitus esset, se in primis ardenter inhiasse: ut, obliterato Romano nomine, Romanum omne sŏlum, Gothorum imperium et faceret et vocaret: essetque, ut vulgariter loquar, Gothia, quod Romania fuisset; fieretque nunc Ataulphus quod quondam Caesar Augustus.
      I, too, once heard a man from Narbonne who claimed to be very familiar with Athaulf and who had learned that Athaulf would often say that, more than anything else, he desired this: after eliminating the name of Rome, he would make the entire Roman land subject to Gothic power and call it so, calling (if I may speak vulgarly) what was previously Romania as "Gothia". And so Athaulfus would become what Caesar Augustus once was .
  3. (historical, Medieval Latin) Byzantine Empire

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

singular
nominative Rōmānia
genitive Rōmāniae
dative Rōmāniae
accusative Rōmāniam
ablative Rōmāniā
vocative Rōmānia

Descendants

  • Proto-Brythonic: *rrʉβ̃ėn (from a Vulgar Latin variant Rōmănia with a short a in the second syllable)

Norwegian Bokmål

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Proper noun

Romania

  1. Romania (a country in Southeast Europe)

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Proper noun

Romania

  1. Romania (a country in Southeast Europe)

Sardinian

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Proper noun

Romania ?

  1. Romania (a country in Southeast Europe)

Swahili

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Proper noun

Romania

  1. Romania (a country in Southeast Europe)

Yoruba

Etymology

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Ròmáníà

Borrowed from English Romania.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Ròmáníà

  1. Romania (a country in Southeast Europe)