Galicia

• Galiza

• enPR: gə-lĭs'ē-ə, gə-lĭsh'ə, IPA^(key): /ɡəˈlɪ.si.ə/, /ɡəˈlɪ.ʃə/

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• Rhymes: -ɪʃə
• Hyphenation: Ga‧li‧ci‧a

Location of Galicia (red) in Spain.

From Medieval Latin Gallicia, from Classical Latin Gallaecia, from Gallaecī (“a Celtic tribe in the region”).

Galicia

1. A former Iberian kingdom, now an autonomous region of Spain.
   • 2000, Glanville Price, Encyclopedia of the languages of Europe, reimpression, illustrated edition, Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, page 367:

     There is sometimes a further subdivision of the Old Portuguese period into a Galician-Portuguese period (origins to 1350), during which the linguistic and cultural unity of Galicia and Portugal remained strong, and the Old Portuguese period proper (1350–1540).

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:Galicia.

• Galician

• Galicia (Spain) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Location of Galicia (red) in Austria-Hungary.

Medieval Latin Gallicia or Gallitia, from Old East Slavic Галичь (Galičĭ, “Halych, a city in present-day Ukraine”), ultimate origin uncertain.

Galicia

1. A historical kingdom in Central Europe, now divided between Poland and Ukraine.
   • 1996, Lonnie R. Johnson, chapter 9, in Central Europe: Enemies, Neighbors, Friends, page 175:

     The czar had declared the "liberation" of the Ukrainian minorities inhabiting the eastern portion of the Austrian imperial province of Galicia, the Austrian portion of partitioned Poland, to be one of Russia's objectives.

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:Galicia.

• Halychia

• Galicia (Central Europe) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Galiza

From Medieval Latin Gallicia, from Classical Latin Gallaecia, from Gallaecī (“a tribe in the region”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡaˈliθja/, [ɡaˈli.θja]

Galicia f

1. Galicia (an autonomous community of Spain)

• gallegu

From Spanish Galicia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑlisiɑ/, [ˈɡɑ̝liˌs̠iɑ̝]

Galicia

1. Galicia (an autonomous community of Spain)

• Galitsia

• Galiza

From Medieval Latin Gallicia, from Classical Latin Gallaecia, from Gallaecī (“a tribe in the region”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡaˈliθjɐ/, /ɡaˈlisjɐ/

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Galicia f

1. Galicia (an autonomous community of Spain)

• galego

Borrowed from Portuguese or Galician Galicia, from Medieval Latin Gallicia, from Classical Latin Gallaecia, from Gallaecī (“a tribe in the region”). According to Menéndez Pidal, this term replaced Old Spanish Gallizia.[1]

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ɡaˈliθja/ [ɡaˈli.θja]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /ɡaˈlisja/ [ɡaˈli.sja]
• (Spain) Rhymes: -iθja
• (Latin America) Rhymes: -isja
• Syllabification: Ga‧li‧cia

Galicia f

1. Galicia (an autonomous community of Spain)
   • 2021 January 15, “El IPC cierra el año en negativo en Galicia por primera vez desde 2015”, in La Región‎:

     El IPC cierra el año en negativo en Galicia por primera vez desde 2015

     The consumption price index meets the end of the year in the negative in Galicia for the first time since 2015.

2. a surname

• Galicia on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es