provincia

See also: província

Asturian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin prōvincia.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /pɾoˈbinθja/, [pɾoˈβ̞ĩn̟.θja]
  • Rhymes: -inθja
  • Hyphenation: pro‧vin‧cia

Noun

provincia f (plural provincies)

  1. province

Chavacano

Etymology

Inherited from Spanish provincia, from Latin prōvincia.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /pɾoˈbinsja/, [pɾoˈbĩn.ʃa]
  • Hyphenation: pro‧vin‧cia

Noun

provincia

  1. province

Galician

Alternative forms

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin prōvincia.

Pronunciation
 
  • IPA(key): (standard) /pɾoˈbinθja/ [pɾoˈβ̞in̪.θjɐ]
  • IPA(key): (seseo) /pɾoˈbinsja/ [pɾoˈβ̞in.sjɐ]

 
  • (standard) Rhymes: -inθja
  • (seseo) Rhymes: -insja

  • Hyphenation: pro‧vin‧cia

Noun

provincia f (plural provincias)

  1. province

Interlingua

Noun

provincia (plural provincias)

  1. province

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin prōvincia.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /proˈvin.t͡ʃa/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -intʃa
  • Hyphenation: pro‧vìn‧cia

Noun

provincia f (plural province or provincie)

  1. province
  2. district
  3. country

Further reading
  • provincia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Etymology

Seemingly from a Proto-Italic *prōwinkjō (“load, burden, charge”) corresponding to prō- and vinciō.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

prōvincia f (genitive prōvinciae); first declension

  1. province
    utramque provinciam remitto
    I return both provinces
  2. office, duty, command

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative prōvincia prōvinciae
Genitive prōvinciae prōvinciārum
Dative prōvinciae prōvinciīs
Accusative prōvinciam prōvinciās
Ablative prōvinciā prōvinciīs
Vocative prōvincia prōvinciae

Derived terms

Descendants

region in southern France:

References
  • “provincia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “provincia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • provincia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • provincia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to entrust some one with an official duty, a province: provinciam alicui decernere, mandare
    • to draw lots for the provinces: provincias sortiri (Liv. 38. 35)
    • (the magistrates) arrange among themselves the administration of the provinces, the official spheres of duty: provincias inter se comparant
    • to set out for one's province: in provinciam proficisci (Liv. 38. 35)
    • to exchange provinces: provincias permutare
    • to manage, govern a province: provinciam administrare, obtinere
    • to visit, traverse a province: provinciam obire
    • to make Asia into a Roman province: Asiam in provinciae formam (in provinciam) redigere (B. G. 1. 45)
  • “provincia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “provincia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
  • “provincia”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  • Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 810
  1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “vinciō, -īre”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 679

Piedmontese

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /pruˈviŋt͡ʃa/

Noun

provincia f (plural provincie)

  1. province
    Synonym: provinsa

Portuguese

Noun

provincia f (plural provincias)

  1. Obsolete spelling of província

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin prōvincia.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): (Spain) /pɾoˈbinθja/ [pɾoˈβ̞ĩn̟.θja]
  • IPA(key): (Latin America) /pɾoˈbinsja/ [pɾoˈβ̞ĩn.sja]
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • (Spain) Rhymes: -inθja
  • (Latin America) Rhymes: -insja
  • Syllabification: pro‧vin‧cia

Noun

provincia f (plural provincias)

  1. province

Descendants

Further reading
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