Britannia

From Latin Britannia.

• IPA^(key): /bɹɪˈtænɪə/

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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.

• Britannia metal
• Britannia silver
• Cool Britannia

• John Bull

From Latin Britannia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbritɑnːiɑ/, [ˈbrit̪ɑnˌniɑ]
• Rhymes: -iɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Bri‧tan‧ni‧a

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)

Borrowed from Latin Britannia.

• IPA^(key): /briˈtan.nja/
• Rhymes: -annja
• Hyphenation: Bri‧tàn‧nia

Britannia f

1. (archaic) Great Britain, Britain

   Synonym: (usual term) Bretagna

2. Britain (Roman province)
3. Britannia (female personification of Britain)

• antibrina

• Brittannia, Brittania, Britania
• Bretannia, Brettannia, Brettania
• Brictania, Brintania (Late Latin), Brytannia (Medieval Latin)

Attested from the 1st century BCE, directly or from Ancient Greek Βρεττανία (Brettanía), Πρεττανία (Prettanía) (in Diodorus), earlier νῆσος Πρεττανική (nêsos 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”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /briˈtan.ni.a/, [brɪˈt̪änːiä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /briˈtan.ni.a/, [briˈt̪änːiä]
• Note: only found in hexameters with a short first syllable, except for a single instance of /britt-/ in Lucretius. Sergius on Donatus testifies to /a:n/ rather than /ann/. Romance descendants seem to consistently point to /tt/.

Britannia f (genitive Britanniae); first declension

1. Britain, i.e. the country of the Britons
2. Great Britain
3. (Medieval Latin) Brittany

   Synonym: Armorica

4. (Medieval Latin) Wales

   Synonyms: Cambria, Wallia

• (Wales): In medieval Welsh sources before the 13th century, Britannia was used both in an expansive sense to refer to the island of Britain and in a restricted sense to refer to Wales, i.e. the remaining land of the Britons. From the 12th century the restricted sense of the term was increasingly displaced by Wallia, a name derived from Old English, and later by Cambria.

First-declension noun, with locative.

• Britannia Minor (“Brittany”)

• britannicus
• britannus
• Britannus, genitive singular and nominative plural Britannī
• Brītō / Brittō

• “Britann-” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present