Guinea
See also: guinea
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese Guiné, which is of uncertain origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡɪniː/
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Proper noun
Guinea
- (historical geography) The coast of West Africa between Morocco and the Congo, particularly the north shore of the Gulf of Guinea.
- Short for Republic of Guinea, a country in West Africa.
- (derogatory US slang, ethnic slur) Someone of Italian descent in the United States.
Hyponyms
- (historical region): Upper Guinea, Lower Guinea; Gold Coast, Pepper Coast, Grain Coast, Slave Coast, Ivory Coast
Derived terms
terms derived from Guinea
- Equatorial Guinea
- French Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Guinean
- Guinea arrowroot
- Guinea corn
- guinea fowl, guineafowl
- guinea grains
- guinea hen weed
- guinea keet
- Guinea pepper
- guinea pig, guinea piglet
- Guinea plum
- Guinea wheat
- guinea worm
- guinea-worm disease
- Lower Guinea
- New Guinea
- Papua New Guinea
- Portuguese Guinea
- Spanish Guinea
- Upper Guinea
Translations
short form of the Republic of Guinea
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See also
- Countries of the world
Catalan
Czech
Pronunciation
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Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡineɑ/, [ˈɡine̞ɑ]
- Hyphenation: Gui‧ne‧a
Declension
| Inflection of Guinea (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | Guinea | — | |
| genitive | Guinean | — | |
| partitive | Guineaa | — | |
| illative | Guineaan | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Guinea | — | |
| accusative | nom. | Guinea | — |
| gen. | Guinean | ||
| genitive | Guinean | — | |
| partitive | Guineaa | — | |
| inessive | Guineassa | — | |
| elative | Guineasta | — | |
| illative | Guineaan | — | |
| adessive | Guinealla | — | |
| ablative | Guinealta | — | |
| allative | Guinealle | — | |
| essive | Guineana | — | |
| translative | Guineaksi | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| abessive | Guineatta | — | |
| comitative | — | — | |
German
Pronunciation
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Proper noun
Guinea n (plural Guinea or Guinea's)
- Guinea
- 1835, Joh. Georg August Galletti's allgemeine Weltkunde oder geographisch-statistisch-historische Uebersicht aller Länder [...] Achte Auflage, verbessert und vermehrt von J. G. F. Cannabich, column 442:
- Balbi klassifizirt die sämtlichen afrikanischen Zungen auf nachstehende Art: [...] 3) Sprachen von Nigritien oder dem Negerlande, wohin er auch Senegambien und beide Guinea rechnet, [...].
- 1831, Wörterbuch der Naturgeschichte, dem gegenwärtigen Stande der Botanik, Mineralogie und Zoologie angemessen. Siebenter Band, page 137:
- Am besten kennt man in den beiden Guinea's die Fulah's, die Jolof's, die Sousou's, die Mandingo's, die Aschantie's, die Neger von der Küste von Ardra und Benin, die Bewohner der Küste Gabon [...]
- 1843, Joseph Russegger, Reisen in Europa, Asien und Afrika [...]. Zweiter Band. Reisen in Egypten, Nubien und Ost-Sudan. Erster Theil. Erste Reise durch Egypten und Nubien, page 8:
- [...] das Vorschreiten der Kolonien in Senegambien, in beiden Guinea's, am Vorgebirge der guten Hoffnung u. s. w.
- 1835, Joh. Georg August Galletti's allgemeine Weltkunde oder geographisch-statistisch-historische Uebersicht aller Länder [...] Achte Auflage, verbessert und vermehrt von J. G. F. Cannabich, column 442:
Derived terms
- Äquatorialguinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Guineer
- guineisch
- Oberguinea, Ober-Guinea
- Portugiesisch-Guinea
- Spanisch-Guinea
Italian
Related terms
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈɡʷi.ne.a/, [ˈɡᶣɪ.ne.a]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈɡwi.ne.a/, [ˈɡwiː.ne.a]
Inflection
First declension.
| Case | Singular |
|---|---|
| Nominative | Guinea |
| Genitive | Guineae |
| Dative | Guineae |
| Accusative | Guineam |
| Ablative | Guineā |
| Vocative | Guinea |
Norwegian Bokmål
Norwegian Nynorsk
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡiˈnea/
Synonyms
- República de Guinea
Swedish
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