English

Proper noun

Germania

1. (historical) Several geographical regions of different historical periods that were mainly inhabited by Germanic peoples.

Translations

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡeɾˈma.nja/

Proper noun

Germania

1. Germany

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʒerˈmanja/

Proper noun

Germania f

1. Germany. Official name: Repubblica Federale Tedesca.

Related terms

See also

• tedesco

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From Germānī + -ia. Germani was an exonym applied by the Romans to a tribe (or nearby tribes) living around and east of the Rhine; it was first attested in the 1st century b.c. works of Julius Caesar and is of uncertain etymology. It was said by Strabo to derive from germānus ("close kin; genuine"), making it cognate with "germane" and "german", but this seems unsupported. Attempts to derive it from Germanic or Celtic roots are all problematic.^[1]

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ɡerˈmaː.ni.a/, [ɡɛrˈmaː.ni.a]

Proper noun

Germānia f ‎(genitive Germāniae); first declension

1. Germany in its various senses, including:
   1. (Classical) the lands of the Germani, tribes living around the Rhine River in the 1st century b.c.
   2. (Medieval Latin) the lands of the Germans, sometimes inclusive of conquered areas in France, England, and Eastern Europe
   3. (New Latin) Germany, various Central European nation-states including the Holy Roman Empire, the German Empire, and the Federal Republic of Germany

Inflection

First declension.

Synonyms

• Alemānnia
• Teutonica

Related terms

• Germānus
• germānicus, Germānicus

Descendants

• English: Germany
• Italian: Germania
• Romanian: Germania
• Russian: Герма́ния ‎(Germánija)

References

1. ↑ Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd ed. "German, adj. and n". Oxford University Press (Oxford), 2012.

Romanian

Germania

Proper noun

Germania f

1. Germany

Related terms

• germanic
• germanist
• german
• germanizat

Latin

Noun

germānia

1. nominative plural of germānium
2. accusative plural of germānium
3. vocative plural of germānium

References

• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “germania”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) eastern, western Germany: Germania quae or Germaniae ea pars quae, ad orientem, occidentem vergit
    
  • (ambiguous) eastern, western Germany: Germania quae or Germaniae ea pars quae, ad orientem, occidentem vergit
    
• germania in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• germania in William Smith., editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly