Lusitania

From Latin Lūsītānia.

• IPA^(key): /luːsɪˈteɪnɪə/
• Rhymes: -eɪniə

Lusitania

1. ancient Roman province, roughly corresponding to modern Portugal
2. (archaic, poetic) Portugal

• Lusitanian

From Lusitanus +‎ -ia, named after the Lusitanians, a Proto-Indo-European tribe of the Iberian peninsula (from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia). The name's origin is uncertain but it is generally agreed that the tribe converged with a heavy Celtic (possibly Celtiberian) influence.

The province within the Roman Empire

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /luː.siˈtaː.ni.a/

Lūsitānia f (genitive Lūsitāniae); first declension

1. A province of Roman Hispania, covering what is now southern Portugal and parts of western Spain such as Extremadura.

Alternatively, the second syllable can be written long as Lūsītānia. First declension, with locative.

• Lūsitānī
• Lūsitānus

• English: Lusitania

• Lusitania in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Lusitania in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Koch, John T (2011). Tartessian 2: The Inscription of Mesas do Castelinho ro and the Verbal Complex. Preliminaries to Historical Phonology. Oxbow Books, Oxford, UK. pp. 33–34. →ISBN.

From Latin Lusitania

Lusitania f

1. Lusitania (ancient Roman province)