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“provincia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
provincia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
provincia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
to entrust some one with an official duty, a province: provinciamalicui decernere, mandare
to draw lots for the provinces: provincias sortiri (Liv. 38. 35)
(the magistrates) arrange among themselves the administration of the provinces, the official spheres of duty: provincias inter se comparant
to set out for one's province: in provinciam proficisci (Liv. 38. 35)
to exchange provinces: provincias permutare
to manage, govern a province: provinciam administrare, obtinere
to visit, traverse a province: provinciam obire
to make Asia into a Roman province: Asiam in provinciae formam (in provinciam) redigere (B. G. 1. 45)
“provincia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
“provincia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
“provincia”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “vinciō, -īre”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 679