Taivania

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Latin

Etymology

From Mandarin 臺灣 / 台湾 (Táiwān) +‎ -ia (suffix forming place names), from Literary Chinese 臺灣, from Hokkien 大員 (Tāi-oân), 大圓, 臺員, 大灣, 臺灣, etc., a placename initially referring to a sandbank peninsula that later silted up now wholly part of the island in the area of modern-day Anping District, Tainan, and eventually became the name of the entire island. The original placename itself was likely originally a loanword transcription from possibly Siraya.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ta.iˈu̯a.ni.a/,
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ta.iˈva.ni.a/,

Proper noun

Taivania f sg (genitive Taivaniae); first declension

(New Latin) Synonym of Formosa, Taiwan (an island in East Asia)
(New Latin) Taiwan (a country in East Asia)

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Taivania
genitive	Taivaniae
dative	Taivaniae
accusative	Taivaniam
ablative	Taivaniā
vocative	Taivania
locative	Taivaniae

Synonyms

(country in East Asia): Res Publica Sinarum, Formosa; Serica (disputed)

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