Gallia

Gallia f

1. France (a country located primarily in Western Europe)

From Latin Gallia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑlːiɑ/, [ˈɡɑ̝lːiɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑlːiɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Gal‧li‧a
• Hyphenation^(key): Gal‧lia

Gallia

1. (chiefly historical) Gaul (a historical region of Western Europe referring to areas occupied by Celts during Roman times, roughly corresponding to modern France, Luxembourg, Belgium, most of Switzerland, and parts of Northern Italy (Lombardy), the Netherlands, and Germany west of the Rhine)

• gallialainen

Borrowed from Latin Gallia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡal.lja/
• Rhymes: -allja
• Hyphenation: Gàl‧lia

Gallia f

1. (chiefly historical) Gaul (a historical region of Western Europe referring to areas occupied by Celts during Roman times, roughly corresponding to modern France, Luxembourg, Belgium, most of Switzerland, and parts of Northern Italy (Lombardy), the Netherlands, and Germany west of the Rhine)

• gallico
• gallo

• algali, gallai, gialla

From Gallus (“a Gaul”) +‎ -ia. The medieval application to Wales is by conflation.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɡal.li.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɡal.li.a]

Gallia f (genitive Galliae); first declension

1. (Classical Latin) Gaul (a historical region of Western Europe referring to areas occupied by Celts during Roman times, roughly corresponding to modern France, Luxembourg, Belgium, most of Switzerland, and parts of Northern Italy (Lombardy), the Netherlands, and Germany west of the Rhine)
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.1:

     Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres.

     Gaul is a whole divided into three parts.

2. (Medieval Latin) alternative spelling of Wallia: Wales (a medieval principality and region of the Kingdom of England)
3. (New Latin) France (a country located primarily in Western Europe)

First-declension noun, with locative.

• “Gallia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Gallia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “Gallia”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC