Cambria

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin Cambria, from Middle Welsh Kymry, from Proto-Brythonic *kömrüɣ, plural of *kömroɣ. Doublet of Cumbria and Cumberland. Cognate with Welsh Cymru.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkæm.bɹi.ə/, /ˈkeɪm.bɹi.ə/

Proper noun

Cambria

  1. (historical) Wales.
  2. A number of places in the United States:
    1. A census-designated place in San Luis Obispo County, California.
    2. A village in Williamson County, Illinois.
    3. An unincorporated community in Owen Township, Clinton County, Indiana.
    4. An unincorporated community in Washington Township, Wayne County, Iowa.
    5. A township in Saline County, Kansas.
    6. A township and census-designated place therein, in Hillsdale County, Michigan.
    7. A township and unincorporated community therein, in Blue Earth County, Minnesota.
    8. A town in Niagara County, New York; some of the early settlers were from Wales.
    9. A former farming colony in Pennsylvania.
    10. A township in Cambria County, Pennsylvania.
    11. An unincorporated community in Nicholas County, West Virginia.
    12. A village in Columbia County, Wisconsin.
    13. A ghost town, a former coal town in Weston County, Wyoming.
  3. A community in the town of Drumheller, Alberta, Canada.
  4. The Rural Municipality of Cambria No. 6, a rural municipality in southern Saskatchewan, Canada.

Derived terms

Latin

Alternative forms

  • Kambria

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Welsh Kymry (modern Cymru, Cymry). First attested in, and likely coined by, Geoffrey of Monmouth (c. 1136).[1]

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Cambria f sg (genitive Cambriae); first declension

  1. (Medieval Latin, New Latin) Wales (a constituent country of the United Kingdom)
    Synonyms: Wallia, Britannia

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Cambria
Genitive Cambriae
Dative Cambriae
Accusative Cambriam
Ablative Cambriā
Vocative Cambria
Locative Cambriae

Derived terms

References

  1. Pryce, Huw (2001 September) “British or Welsh? National Identity in Twelfth-Century Wales”, in The English Historical Review, volume 116, number 468, →JSTOR, page 797
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