Britannia

From Latin Britannia

• IPA^(key): /bɹɪˈtænɪə/

Britannia

1. A female personification of Britain or the United Kingdom.
   • 1740, James Thomson (lyrics), Thomas Arne (music), Rule, Britannia!

     Rule, Britannia! Britannia rule the waves / Britons never, never shall be slaves

2. (historical) A province of the Roman Empire covering most of the island of Britain.
3. A settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador.

• Britannia metal
• Britannia silver
• Cool Britannia

• John Bull

Britannia

1. (ambiguously) United Kingdom, Great Britain, Britain (used to refer to the state of United Kingdom or its largest island consisting of England, Scotland and Wales)
2. Britain (Roman province)
3. Britannia (female personification of Britain)

• Britania
• Brittānia
• Brittannia

As Brittānia from the 1st century BCE, from Ancient Greek Πρεττανία (Prettanía), used by Diodorus, earlier νῆσος (nêsos) Πρεττανική (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”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /briˈtan.ni.a/, [brɪˈtan.ni.a]

Britannia f (genitive Britanniae); first declension

1. Britain, ie. the country of the Britons
2. Great Britain

First declension, with locative.

• Britannia Minor (“Brittany”)

• britannicus
• britannus
• Britannus, genitive singular and nominative plural Britannī
• Brītō / Brittō

• Catalan: Bretanya
• → Dutch: Brittannië
• → English: Britannia, Britain, Brittany
  • →Japanese: ブリテン (Buriten)
  • →Korean: 브리튼 (Beuriteun)
  • →Mandarin: 不列顛 (Bùlièdiān)
• → German: Britannien
• Italian: Bretagna
• Old French: Bretaigne
  • French: Bretagne
    • →Japanese: ブルターニュ (Burutānyu)
• Old Portuguese: Bretanna
  • Portuguese: Bretanha, Britânia
• Spanish: Bretaña