Cornubia

English

Proper noun

Cornubia

  1. (literary) Cornwall: A peninsula, cultural area, maritime ceremonial county, and duchy in England; forming its south-western extremity, bordered by Devon in the east.
  2. A southern suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
  3. A suburb under construction near Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *Körnɨw + -ia, with the common Medieval confusion of b and v.[1]

Proper noun

Cornubia f sg (genitive Cornubiae); first declension

  1. (Medieval Latin) Cornwall (a peninsula, county, and cultural region in southwestern England)
    • ca. 670 CE - ca. 710 CE, Aldhelmus Malmesberiensis, Aldhelmi Carmen Rhythmicum:
      Quando proféctus freram - Usque díram Domnóniam - Pér caréntem Cornúbiam...
      When I had set forth - toward dire Devon - through Cornwall lacking...[2]
    • (Can we date this quote?), Annales Cambriae B‎[2]:
      Bellum Heyl apud Cornubiam.
      The battle of Hayle among Cornwall.

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

singular
nominative Cornubia
genitive Cornubiae
dative Cornubiae
accusative Cornubiam
ablative Cornubiā
vocative Cornubia

References

  1. ^ Jackson, K. H. (1953) Language and History in Early Britain, Edinburgh University Press, pages 377-378
  2. ^ Howlett, David R. (1995) “Aldhelmi Carmen Rhythmicum”, in Archivum Latinitatis Medii Aevi-Bulletin du Cange (ALMA)‎[1]
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