Britannia

English

Etymology

From Latin Britannia

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /bɹɪˈtænɪə/

Proper noun

Britannia

  1. A female personification of Britain or the United Kingdom.
    • 1740, James Thomson (lyrics), Thomas Arne (music), Rule, Britannia!
      Rule, Britannia! Britannia rule the waves / Britons never, never shall be slaves
  2. (historical) A province of the Roman Empire covering most of the island of Britain.
  3. A settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Derived terms

See also

Finnish

Proper noun

Britannia

  1. (ambiguously) United Kingdom, Great Britain, Britain (used to refer to the state of United Kingdom or its largest island consisting of England, Scotland and Wales)
  2. Britain (Roman province)
  3. Britannia (female personification of Britain)

Declension
Inflection of Britannia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative Britannia —
genitive Britannian —
partitive Britanniaa —
illative Britanniaan —
singular plural
nominative Britannia —
accusative nom. Britannia —
gen. Britannian
genitive Britannian —
partitive Britanniaa —
inessive Britanniassa —
elative Britanniasta —
illative Britanniaan —
adessive Britannialla —
ablative Britannialta —
allative Britannialle —
essive Britanniana —
translative Britanniaksi —
instructive — —
abessive Britanniatta —
comitative — —

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

As Brittānia from the 1st century BCE, from Ancient Greek Πρεττανία (Prettanía), used by Diodorus, earlier νῆσος (nêsos) Πρεττανική (Prettanikḗ) or Βρεττανίαι (Brettaníai), used by Pytheas (4th century BCE) of the entire archipelago now known as the British Isles.

The Ancient Greek name is ultimately from a Celtic ethnonym, reconstructed as early Brythonic *Pritani, perhaps from a Proto-Celtic *Kʷritanī, *Kʷritenī, whence Welsh Prydyn (“Picts”), Old Irish Cruthne, Cru(i)then-túath (“Picts”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷer- (“to do”).

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /briˈtan.ni.a/, [brɪˈtan.ni.a]

Proper noun

Britannia f (genitive Britanniae); first declension

  1. Britain, ie. the country of the Britons
  2. Great Britain

Inflection

First declension, with locative.

Case Singular
Nominative Britannia
Genitive Britanniae
Dative Britanniae
Accusative Britanniam
Ablative Britanniā
Vocative Britannia
Locative Britanniae

Derived terms
  • Britannia Minor (“Brittany”)

Descendants
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