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Lusitania
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Lusitânia
English
Etymology
en :bor la:Lūsītānia :af<surf> Lusitan -ia + 1
Pronunciation
en /luː.sɪˈteɪ.nɪə/ UK
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Lusitania.wav Southern England
en /lu.sɪˈteɪ.ni.ə/ US
en eɪniə 5
Proper noun
en history An ancient Roman province, roughly corresponding to modern Portugal.
en archaic poetic Portugal.
en 1869 Alfred Russel Wallace The Malay Archipelago Macmillan and Co. II London 125 Yet this, as well as most of the forts in the Moluccas, was originally built by the Portuguese themselves. Oh! Lusitania, how art thou fallen!
en historical The RMS Lusitania, a British ship that was sunk in 1915 during World War I.
en Tilman Dedering ‘Avenge the Lusitania’: The Anti-German Riots in South Africa in 1915 Immigrants & Minorities November 2013 31 3 256–288 10.1080/02619288.2013.781811 The anti-German riots which erupted simultaneously in many countries in response to the torpedoing of the Lusitania by a German U-boat in 1915 reflected shifts in the status of minorities in multi-ethnic societies at a time of escalating nationalist emotions.
Derived terms
en Lusitanian
Related terms
en Lusitan Lusitanic Lusitanism Lusitanist Lusitanity Lusitanization//lusitanization Lusitanize//lusitanize
Translations
ancient Roman province
Armenian: hy Լուզիտանիա
Catalan: ca Lusitània f
Esperanto: eo Luzitanio
French: fr Lusitanie f
Galician: gl Lusitania
Georgian: ka ლუზიტანია
German: de Lusitanien
Italian: it Lusitania
Latin: la Lusitania f
Marathi: mr लुसिटानिया
Polish: pl Luzytania f
Portuguese: pt Lusitânia
Romanian: ro Lusitania
Russian: ru Лузитания
Sicilian: scn Lusitània f
Spanish: es Lusitania
Ukrainian: uk Лузітанія f
en World War I
Latin
la:
Etymology
la :af Lūsītānus<t:Lusitan, Lusitanian> -ia<pos:suffix forming country names> ++ 1 1, named after the Lusitans or Lusitanians, an la ine - tribe of the Iberian peninsula (from la qsb-ibe -). The name's origin is uncertain but it is generally agreed that the tribe converged with a heavy la cel - (possibly la xce -) influence.
right|thumb|The province within the Roman Empire
Pronunciation
Lūsītānia yes
Proper noun
Lūsītānia<1.loc>
A province of Roman Hispania, covering what is now southern Portugal and parts of western Spain such as Extremadura.
la New Latin la country r/Western Europe Portugal
Declension
Lūsītānia<1.loc>
Related terms
la Lūsītānī
la Lūsītānus
Descendants
1 en Lusitania
fr Lusitanie
1 de Lusitanien
es Lusitania
References
2 Lūsītānia 1157
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. 978-1-907029-07-3.
la Provinces of the Roman Empire
Spanish
es:
Etymology
es :lbor la:Lūsītānia + 1
Pronunciation
Proper noun
f
en Lusitania ancient Roman province