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
- (historical) Wales.
- A number of places in the United States:
- A census-designated place in San Luis Obispo County, California.
- A village in Williamson County, Illinois.
- An unincorporated community in Owen Township, Clinton County, Indiana.
- An unincorporated community in Washington Township, Wayne County, Iowa.
- A township in Saline County, Kansas.
- A township and census-designated place therein, in Hillsdale County, Michigan.
- A township and unincorporated community therein, in Blue Earth County, Minnesota.
- A town in Niagara County, New York; some of the early settlers were from Wales.
- A former farming colony in Pennsylvania.
- A township in Cambria County, Pennsylvania.
- An unincorporated community in Nicholas County, West Virginia.
- A village in Columbia County, Wisconsin.
- A ghost town, a former coal town in Weston County, Wyoming.
- A community in the town of Drumheller, Alberta, Canada.
- 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
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkam.bri.a/, [ˈkämbriä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkam.bri.a/, [ˈkämbriä]
Proper noun
Cambria f sg (genitive Cambriae); first declension
- (Medieval Latin, New Latin) Wales (a constituent country of the United Kingdom)
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
- 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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