Aquitania

Unadapted borrowing from Latin Aquitania. Doublet of Aquitaine.

• (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this pronunciation?) (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌæ.kwɪˈteɪ.nɪ.ə/, /ˌæ.kwɪˈteɪn.jə/
• (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this pronunciation?) (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌɑ.kwɪˈteɪ.ni.ə/, /ˌɑ.kwɪˈteɪn.jə/

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• Rhymes: -eɪniə

• Hyphenation: A‧qui‧ta‧ni‧a, A‧qui‧tan‧ia

Aquitania

1. Aquitaine (a historical region in France), especially Gallia Aquitania (a province of the Roman Empire)

Aquitania

1. Aquitaine (a historical region in France)

• aquitano

Borrowed from Latin Aquitania.

Aquitania f

1. Aquitaine (a historical region in France)

• aquitano

Probably from aqua (“water”), as in nearby provinces Aquae Tarbellicae or Aquae Augustae or the dative plural aquis, + -ania.

The province within the Roman Empire

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a.kʷiːˈtaː.ni.a/, [äkʷiːˈt̪äːniä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.kwiˈta.ni.a/, [äkwiˈt̪äːniä]

Aquītānia f sg (genitive Aquītāniae); first declension

1. Aquitaine

First-declension noun, singular only.

• Aquītānus
• Aquītānicus
• Aquītānensis

• → Catalan: Aquitània
• → French: Aquitaine
  • → English: Aquitaine
• → German: Aquitanien
• Occitan: Guiana, → Aquitània
• Old French: Aguyenne, Guyenne, Guienne
  • French: Guyenne, Guienne
    • → English: Guyenne
• → Portuguese: Aquitânia (learned)
• → Spanish: Aquitania

• “Aquitania”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Aquitania in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “Aquitania”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Charnock, Richard Stephen (1859): Local Etymology: A Derivative Dictionary of Geographical Names

Borrowed from Latin Aquitania.

• IPA^(key): /akiˈtanja/ [a.kiˈt̪a.nja]
• Rhymes: -anja
• Syllabification: A‧qui‧ta‧nia

Aquitania f

1. Aquitaine (a historical region in France)