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Latin
Etymology
Westsaxō + -ia
Proper noun
Westsaxōnia f sg (genitive Westsaxōniae); first declension
- (Medieval Latin) Wessex
c. 1340, John of Glastonbury, Cronica sive Antiquitates Glastoniensis Ecclesie; republished as David Townsend, transl., edited by James P. Carley, The Chronicle of Glastonbury Abbey , 1985, →ISBN, page 80:Cerdicus autem postquam regnauerat in Westsaxonia quindecim annis moritur et successit ei Kinricus filius suus viginti septem annis regnaturus.- After Cerdic had reigned in Wessex for fifteen years he died, and his son Cynric, who reigned for twenty-seven years, succeeded him.
Declension
First-declension noun, singular only.