Galatia
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English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin Galatia, from Ancient Greek Γαλατία (Galatía).
Proper noun
Galatia
- A region of ancient Asia Minor, in what is now central Turkey; a province of ancient Rome.
- A village in Saline County, Illinois.
- A minor city in Barton County, Kansas.
Related terms
Translations
region of Asia Minor
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Hawaiian
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Galatia
- Galatians (book of the Bible)
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Γᾰλᾰτῐ́ᾱ (Gălătĭ́ā).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ɡa.laˈtiː.a/, [ɡäɫ̪äˈt̪iːä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ɡa.laˈti.a/, [ɡäläˈt̪iːä]
Proper noun
Galatīa f sg (genitive Galatīae); first declension
- Galatia (region of Anatolia, later a Roman province)
- Holonym: Anatolia
- Meronyms: Ancyra, Pessinus, Rosologiacum, Tavium
Declension
First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
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Descendants
Descendants
- Italian: Galazia
- → Armenian: Գաղատիա (Gaġatia)
- → Catalan: Galàcia
- → English: Galatia
- → Finnish: Galatia
- → French: Galatie
- → German: Galatien
- → Irish: an Ghaláit
- → Polish: Galacja
- → Portuguese: Galácia
- → Romanian: Galatia
- → Russian: Галатия (Galatija)
- → Spanish: Galacia
- → Swedish: Galatien
- → Turkish: Galatia
References
- “Galatia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Galatia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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