Lusitania

From Latin Lūsītānia.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /luː.sɪˈteɪ.nɪə/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /lu.sɪˈteɪ.ni.ə/
• Rhymes: -eɪniə

Lusitania

1. An ancient Roman province, roughly corresponding to modern Portugal.
2. (archaic, poetic) Portugal.
3. (historical) The RMS Lusitania, a British ship that was sunk in 1915 during World War I

• Lusitanian

From lūsītānus +‎ -ia, named after the Lusitanians, a Indo-European tribe of the Iberian peninsula (from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia). The name's origin is uncertain but it is generally agreed that the tribe converged with a heavy Celtic (possibly Celtiberian) influence.

The province within the Roman Empire

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /luː.siːˈtaː.ni.a/, [ɫ̪uːs̠iːˈt̪äːniä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /lu.siˈta.ni.a/, [lus̬iˈt̪äːniä]

Lūsītānia f sg (genitive Lūsītāniae); first declension

1. A province of Roman Hispania, covering what is now southern Portugal and parts of western Spain such as Extremadura.
2. (New Latin) Portugal (a country in Western Europe)

• First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• Lūsītānī
• Lūsītānus

• English: Lusitania
• Spanish: Lusitania

• “Lūsītānia” on page 1157 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
• “Lusitania”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Lusitania in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Koch, John T (2011). Tartessian 2: The Inscription of Mesas do Castelinho ro and the Verbal Complex. Preliminaries to Historical Phonology. Oxbow Books, Oxford, UK. pp. 33–34. →ISBN.

Borrowed from Latin Lūsītānia.

• IPA^(key): /lusiˈtanja/ [lu.siˈt̪a.nja]
• Rhymes: -anja
• Syllabification: Lu‧si‧ta‧nia

Lusitania f

1. Lusitania (ancient Roman province)