Feminine

Britannia

Meaning

  1. (archaic, feminine) Great Britain, Britain
  2. (feminine, historical) Britannia (a province of the Roman Empire, covering most of the island of Britain)
  3. (feminine) Britannia (female personification of Britain)

Concepts

Frequency

22k
Hyphenated as
Bri‧tàn‧nia
Pronounced as (IPA)
/briˈtan.nja/
Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Britannia. Doublet of Bretagna.

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