Pannonia

See also: Pannónia

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Pannonia, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pen- (moist; wet; mud; swamp; water), thus meaning (and ultimately related to) fen, fenland.

Proper noun

Pannonia

  1. (historical) A geographic region and former province of the Roman Empire in central-eastern Europe, existing as a single province from c. 9 AD to 107 AD and as multiple related provinces until 433 AD; located in modern western Hungary, western Slovakia, eastern Austria, northern Croatia, northwestern Serbia, northern Slovenia and northern Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Pannonia, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pen- (moist; wet; mud; swamp; water).

Proper noun

Pannonia f

  1. (historical) Pannonia (a geographic region and former province of the Roman Empire in central-eastern Europe, existing as a single province from c. 9 AD to 107 AD and as multiple related provinces until 433 AD; located in modern western Hungary, western Slovakia, eastern Austria, northern Croatia, northwestern Serbia, northern Slovenia and northern Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Latin

Etymology

Via Illyrian, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pen- (moist; wet; mud; swamp; water).

Proper noun

Pannonia f sg (genitive Pannoniae); first declension

  1. (historical) Pannonia (a geographic region and former province of the Roman Empire in central-eastern Europe, existing as a single province from c. 9 AD to 107 AD and as multiple related provinces until 433 AD; located in modern western Hungary, western Slovakia, eastern Austria, northern Croatia, northwestern Serbia, northern Slovenia and northern Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

singular
nominative Pannonia
genitive Pannoniae
dative Pannoniae
accusative Pannoniam
ablative Pannoniā
vocative Pannonia

References

  • Pannonia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Pannonia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
  • Pannonia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.