Cambria
English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin Cambria, from Middle Welsh Kymry, from Proto-Brythonic *kömrüɣ, plural of *kömroɣ. Doublet of Cumberland, Cumbria, and Cymru. Cognate with Welsh Cymru.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkæm.bɹi.ə/, /ˈkeɪm.bɹi.ə/
Proper noun
Cambria
- (historical) Wales, a constituent country of the United Kingdom.
- A number of places in the United States:
- A census-designated place in San Luis Obispo County, California.
- A village in Williamson County, Illinois.
- An unincorporated community in Owen Township, Clinton County, Indiana.
- An unincorporated community in Washington Township, Wayne County, Iowa.
- A township in Saline County, Kansas.
- A township and census-designated place therein, in Hillsdale County, Michigan.
- A township and unincorporated community therein, in Blue Earth County, Minnesota.
- A town in Niagara County, New York; some of the early settlers were from Wales.
- A former farming colony in Pennsylvania.
- A township in Cambria County, Pennsylvania.
- An unincorporated community in Nicholas County, West Virginia.
- A village in Columbia County, Wisconsin.
- A ghost town, a former coal town in Weston County, Wyoming.
- A tiny community in the town of Drumheller, Alberta, Canada.
- A rural municipality in southern Saskatchewan, Canada; in full, the Rural Municipality of Cambria No. 6.
- (rare) A female given name.
Derived terms
Latin
Alternative forms
- Kambria
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle Welsh Kymry (modern Cymru, Cymry). First attested in, and likely coined by, Geoffrey of Monmouth (c. 1136).[1]
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkam.bri.a]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkam.bri.a]
Proper noun
Cambria f sg (genitive Cambriae); first declension
- (Medieval Latin) Wales (a medieval principality and region of the Kingdom of England)
- (New Latin) Wales (a constituent country of the United Kingdom)
Declension
First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Cambria |
| genitive | Cambriae |
| dative | Cambriae |
| accusative | Cambriam |
| ablative | Cambriā |
| vocative | Cambria |
| locative | Cambriae |
Derived terms
References
- ^ Pryce, Huw (September 2001) “British or Welsh? National Identity in Twelfth-Century Wales”, in The English Historical Review, volume 116, number 468, →JSTOR, page 797