Britannia

Meaning

1. (declension-1, feminine) Britain (a region of Western Europe, the country of the Britons)
2. (declension-1, feminine) Great Britain (an island of Western Europe)
3. (declension-1, feminine) Britannia (a province of the Roman Empire in Western Europe, on the island of Great Britain)
4. (Medieval-Latin, declension-1, feminine) Brittany (a region and peninsula in modern France, populated by speakers of Breton)
5. (Medieval-Latin, declension-1, feminine) Wales (a region in the modern United Kingdom, populated by speakers of Welsh)

Concepts

Great Britain

Roman Britain

England

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UK

🇬🇧

United Kingdom

Bridgetown

Stratford

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Blighty

St. George’s

Neath

Cramlington

Morpeth

Old Blighty

Brummie

Old Dart

Britain

Synonyms

Britanniarum Regnum

Brittania

Translations

Grande-Bretagne

Großbritannien

Gran Bretagna

Grã-Bretanha

Groot-Brittannië

Gran Bretanya

Grand Bretanha

Büyük Britanya

بريطانيا العظمى

Gran Bretaña

Großbritannien in römischer Zeit

Britannia

Bretagne

Britània

Pronounced as (IPA)

[brɪˈtan.ni.a]

Etymology

Attested from the 1st century BCE, directly or from Ancient Greek Βρεττανία (Brettanía), Πρεττανία (Prettanía) (in Diodorus), earlier νῆσος Πρεττανική (nêsos Prettanikḗ) or Βρεττανίαι (Brettaníai), used by Pytheas (4th century BCE) of the entire archipelago now known as the British Isles.
The Ancient Greek name is ultimately from a Celtic ethnonym, reconstructed as early Brythonic *Pritani, perhaps from a Proto-Celtic *Kʷritanī, *Kʷritenī, whence Welsh Prydyn (“Picts”), Old Irish Cruthne, Cru(i)then-túath (“Picts”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷer- (“to do”).