Germany

Meaning

  1. A nation or civilization occupying the country around the Rhine, Elbe, and upper Danube Rivers in Central Europe, taken as a whole under its various governments.
  2. (obsolete) A nation or civilization occupying the country around the Rhine, Elbe, and upper Danube Rivers in Central Europe, taken as a whole under its various governments.
  3. The principal state in this country, including
  4. The principal state in this country, including
  5. The principal state in this country, including
  6. The principal state in this country, including
  7. The principal state in this country, including
  8. The various states in this country either over time or during periods of disunity and division, sometimes (inexact) inclusive of the Holy Roman Empire and Austria-Hungary's other holdings.
  9. A male given name.
  10. A surname.
  11. A township in Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States.
  12. An unincorporated community in Clark County, Indiana, United States.
  13. An unincorporated community in Houston County, Texas, United States.

Concepts

Germany

Federal Republic of Germany

Deutschland

FRG

German Federal Republic

German

the Federal Republic of Germany

Bonn

Munich

Stuttgart

𐐖𐐲𐑉𐑋𐐲𐑌𐐨

Frequency

B1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈd͡ʒɜː.mə.ni/
Etymology

From Middle English Germanie, from Old English Germanie & Germania, from Latin Germānia (“land of the Germans”), from Germānī, a people living around and east of the Rhine first attested in the 1st century B.C.E. works of Julius Caesar and of uncertain etymology. The exonym was said by Strabo to derive from germānus (“close kin; genuine”), making it cognate with germane and german, but this seems unsupported. Attempts to derive it from Germanic or Celtic roots since the 18th century are all problematic, although it is perhaps cognate with the Old Irish gair (“neighbour”). Doublet of Germania. In reference to a medieval kingdom, English Germany is usually an anachronism using the Roman name to describe the area or calquing various Latin terms like rex Teutonicorum ("king of the Teutons"), which were often derogatory exonyms rather than formal titles.

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