Italia

Italia

1. definite nominative singular of Itali

Definite form of Italii; -a (feminine definite article) added on.

Italia f

1. definite nominative of Italii

• italian

Italia f

1. Italy (a country in Southern Europe)

• italianu

• IPA^(key): /italia/ [i.t̪a.li.a]

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• Rhymes: -ia, -a
• Hyphenation: I‧ta‧li‧a

Italia inan

1. Italy (a country in Southern Europe)

• “38.- Munduko estatuen izenak, herritarren izenak, hizkuntza ofizialak eta hiriburuak [Names of the states of the world, nationalities, official languages and capitals]”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Arauak, Euskaltzaindia, 2019

Italia

1. Italy (a country in Southern Europe)

Italia

1. Italy (a country in Southern Europe)

Italia

1. Italy (a country in Southern Europe)

From Latin Italia (“Italy”), via Ancient Greek Ῑ̓ταλίᾱ (Ītalíā), from Oscan 𐌅𐌝𐌕𐌄𐌋𐌉𐌞 (víteliú) (a name for the southwestern tip of Calabria), meaning "land of bulls" in Oscan. Usually assumed to be a cognate of vitulus (“calf”).

Italia n

1. Italy (a country in Southern Europe)

From Latin Italia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈitɑliɑ/, [ˈit̪ɑ̝ˌliɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -iɑ
• Syllabification^(key): I‧ta‧li‧a
• Hyphenation^(key): I‧ta‧lia

Italia

1. Italy (a country in Southern Europe)

• itaali, laatii

• Itália (reintegrationist)

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Italia f

1. Italy (a country in Southern Europe)

• italiano

Italia

1. Italy (a country in Southern Europe)

Unadapted borrowing from Brazilian Portuguese Itália.^[1] Doublet of Italje.

• IPA^(key): /iˈtaːlia/, /iˈtalia/
• Rhymes: -aːlia, -alia
• Syllabification: I‧ta‧li‧a

Italia n

1. Italy (a country in Southern Europe)

   Synonym: Italje

Italia

1. Italy (a country in Southern Europe)

From Dutch Italië.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /itaˈlia/ [i.t̪aˈli.a]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: I‧ta‧li‧a

Italia

1. Italy (a country in Southern Europe)

   Synonym: (Standard Malay) Itali

• “Italia” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• IPA^(key): /iˈta.lja/

Italia

1. Italy (a country in Southern Europe)

Borrowed from Latin Italia, from Ancient Greek Ῑ̓ταλίᾱ (Ītalíā), from Oscan 𐌅𐌝𐌕𐌄𐌋𐌉𐌞 (víteliú, “land of bulls”), a name for the southwestern tip of the boot of Italy; usually assumed to be a cognate of vitulus (“calf”).

• IPA^(key): /iˈta.lja/^[1]

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• Rhymes: -alja

Italia f

1. Italy (a country in Southern Europe)

• → Arabic: إِيطَالِيَا (ʔīṭāliyā)
• → Japanese: イタリア (Itaria)
• → Korean: 이탈리아 (Itallia)
• → Maltese: Italja
• → Slavomolisano: Litalija
• → Persian: ایتالیا (itâliyâ)

• alitai

• Ytalia (Medieval Latin)

Via Ancient Greek Ῑ̓ταλίᾱ (Ītalíā), from Oscan 𐌅𐌝𐌕𐌄𐌋𐌉𐌞 (víteliú, “land of bulls”), a name for the southwestern tip of the boot of Italy; usually assumed to be a cognate of vitulus (“calf”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪˈta.li.a]
• (Classical, poetic) IPA^(key): [iːˈta.li.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [iˈt̪aː.li.a]

Note: the initial vowel was reportedly phonemically short, but lengthened in dactylic verse on the Greek model due to the requirements of the meter.^[1] Compare ī̆talus, Ā̆rabia, Ā̆sia.

Ī̆talia f sg (genitive Ī̆taliae); first declension

1. Italy (a country in Southern Europe)
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.361:

     “Ītaliam nōn sponte sequor.”

     “Italy is my goal not by choice”

2. the Italian people

First-declension noun, singular only.

Note: there are no inherited descendants; by early Medieval times the word had likely become historic.^[2]

• “Italia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Italia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Italia

1. Italy (a country in Southern Europe)

• italiener
• italiensk

Italia

1. Italy (a country in Southern Europe)

• italienar
• italiensk

From Latin Italia. Doublet of Eotol.

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.tɑ.li.ɑ/

Italia f

1. Italy (a country in Southern Europe)

   Synonym: Eotol

   • late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans

     ⁊ hē [Pirrus] hæfde XX elpenda tō þǣm ġefeohte mid him, þe Rōmane ǣr na ne ne ġesawon: hē wæs sē forma mon þe hīe ǣrest on Italium brōhte.

     And he [Pyrrhus] had twenty elephants with him in battle, which the Romans had never seen before; he was the first man to bring them to Italy.

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “Italia”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• Ytalia, Eytalia

Learned borrowing from Latin Ītalia, from Ancient Greek Ῑ̓ταλίᾱ (Ītalíā), possibly borrowed from Oscan 𐌅𐌝𐌕𐌄𐌋𐌉𐌞 (víteliú).

Italia f

1. Italy (a country in Southern Europe)

• Galician: Italia
• Portuguese: Itália (see there for further descendants)

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “Ytalia”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “Italia”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Learned borrowing from Latin Ī̆talia, from Ancient Greek Ῑ̓ταλίᾱ (Ītalíā), from Oscan 𐌅𐌝𐌕𐌄𐌋𐌉𐌞 (víteliú).

• IPA^(key): /iˈta.lja/

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• Rhymes: -alja
• Syllabification: I‧ta‧lia

Italia f

1. (literary) Italy (a country in Southern Europe)

   Synonym: Włochy

2. (historical) Italia (one of the provinces of the Roman Empire)

• Italia in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Italia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• Италия (Italia) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

• IPA^(key): /iˈta.li.a/

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• Rhymes: -alia
• Hyphenation: I‧ta‧li‧a

Italia f

1. Italy (a country in Southern Europe)

• “Italia”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

From Italian Italia.

Italia

1. Italy (a country in Southern Europe)

• Talia, Tàlia

From Latin Italia via Ancient Greek Ῑ̓ταλίᾱ (Ītalíā), from Oscan 𐌅𐌝𐌕𐌄𐌋𐌉𐌞 (víteliú, “land of bulls”), a name for the southwestern tip of the boot of Italy; usually assumed to be a cognate of vitulus (“calf”).

• IPA^(key): /iˈta.lja/
• Rhymes: -alja
• Hyphenation: I‧tà‧lia

Italia

1. Italy (a country in Southern Europe)

From Latin Italia via Ancient Greek Ῑ̓ταλίᾱ (Ītalíā), from Oscan 𐌅𐌝𐌕𐌄𐌋𐌉𐌞 (víteliú, “land of bulls”), a name for the southwestern tip of the boot of Italy; usually assumed to be a cognate of vitulus (“calf”).

• IPA^(key): /iˈtalja/ [iˈt̪a.lja]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -alja
• Syllabification: I‧ta‧lia

Italia f

1. Italy (a country in Southern Europe)

• → Tagalog: Italya

• “Italia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Italia

1. Italy (a country in Southern Europe)