Emilia-Romagna

Borrowed from Italian Emilia-Romagna, from the former regions Emilia and Romagna.

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈmiːljə ɹəʊˈmɑːnjə/

Emilia-Romagna

2. An administrative region of northern Italy. Capital: Bologna.

From Italian Emilia-Romagna.

• IPA^(key): [eˈmiːli̯a ʁoˈmanja]

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Emilia-Romagna n (proper noun, genitive Emilia-Romagnas or (optionally with an article) Emilia-Romagna)

1. Emilia-Romagna (an administrative region of northern Italy)

From the former regions Emilia and Romagna, from Latin (via) Aemilia, the Roman road connecting Rome to northern Italy, named after the consul Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Romania, the name of the Eastern Roman Empire applied to Ravenna by the Lombards after the fall of the Western Roman Empire and in the days when Ravenna was a city of the east.

• IPA^(key): /eˈmi.lja roˈmaɲ.ɲa/
• Hyphenation: E‧mì‧lia‧Ro‧mà‧gna

Emilia-Romagna f

1. Emilia-Romagna (an administrative region of northern Italy)

• emiliano-romagnolo