Carelia

From Medieval Latin Carelia, Latinized from Swedish Karelen, Finnish Karjala, ultimately from an earlier Finnic endonym.

Carelia f

1. Karelia (historical Nordic Baltic-Finnic ethnocultural region, now divided along the frontiers of eastern Finland and northwestern Russia)
2. Karelia (a region and autonomous republic of Russia)

• careliano

• calerai, lacerai

• Karēlia

Medieval Latin, Latinized exonym from Old Swedish Karelen, Finnish Karjala, ultimately from an earlier Finnic endonym. Compare Russian Каре́лия (Karélija), loanword of medieval Latinate provenance existing alongside direct borrowing Ка́рьяла (Kárʹjala).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kaˈreː.li.a/, [käˈreːlʲiä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kaˈre.li.a/, [käˈrɛːliä]

Carēlia f sg (genitive Carēliae); first declension (Medieval Latin, New Latin)

1. Karelia (historical Nordic Baltic-Finnic ethnocultural region, now divided along the frontiers of eastern Finland and northwestern Russia)
   • Finnia (New Latin)

     Per Secundum Bellum Mundanum, Unio Sovietica Finniam capere saepenumero quaesivit, cum Finnia Careliae, Sallae, Kuusamonis et Petsamonis partes et aliquas insulas amisit, sed independens mansit.

     Throughout the Second World War, the Soviet Union repeatedly sought to capture Finland, when Finland lost parts of Karelia, Salla, Kuusamo, Petsamo, and some islands, but remained independent.

2. Karelia (a region and autonomous republic of Russia)

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• Carēliānus, Carēliānī
• carēlicus
• carēliēnsis

• Karelia

From Latin Carelia.

Carelia f

1. Karelia

• Karelia

From Medieval Latin Carelia, Latinized from Swedish Karelen, Finnish Karjala, ultimately from an earlier Finnic endonym.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈɾelja/ [kaˈɾe.lja]
• Rhymes: -elja
• Syllabification: Ca‧re‧lia

Carelia f

1. Karelia (historical Nordic Baltic-Finnic ethnocultural region, now divided along the frontiers of eastern Finland and northwestern Russia)
2. Karelia (a region and autonomous republic of Russia)

   Synonym: República de Carelia