Pomerania
See also: Pomerânia
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin Pomerania, from German Pommern, from Proto-Slavic *pomorьjane pl (“coast dwellers”), from Proto-Slavic *pomorьje (“seaboard”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌpɒməˈɹeɪniə/
- Rhymes: -eɪniə
Proper noun
Pomerania
- A former duchy, historical province of Prussia, and now a geographic region of Central Europe split between Germany and Poland on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea.
- 1759, George Sale et al., “The Modern Part of an Universal History”, in History of the German Empire, volume XXIX, page 2:
- Since the reign of Charlemagne, this country is divided into High and Low Germany... the provinces of Lower Germany towards the north conſiſt of the Low Country of the Rhine, Triers, Cologn, Mentz, Weſtphalia, Heſſe, Brunſwic, Miſnia, Luſatia, High Saxony upon the Elbe, Low Saxony upon the Elbe, Mecklenburg, Lauenburg, Brandenburg, Magdeburg, and Pomerania.
Derived terms
Translations
region of Europe on the southern shores of the Baltic Sea
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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /po.meˈra.nja/[1]
- Rhymes: -anja
- Hyphenation: Po‧me‧rà‧nia
Proper noun
Pomerania f
- Pomerania (a former duchy, historical province of Prussia, and now a geographic region of Central Europe split between Germany and Poland on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea)
References
- ^ Pomerania in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Anagrams
Occitan
Proper noun
Pomerania f
- Pomerania (a former duchy, historical province of Prussia, and now a geographic region of Central Europe split between Germany and Poland on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea)
References
- Patric Guilhemjoan, Diccionari elementari occitan-francés francés-occitan (gascon), 2005, Orthez, per noste, 2005, →ISBN, page 154.
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pomeˈɾanja/ [po.meˈɾa.nja]
- Rhymes: -anja
- Syllabification: Po‧me‧ra‧nia
Proper noun
Pomerania f
- Pomerania (a former duchy, historical province of Prussia, and now a geographic region of Central Europe split between Germany and Poland on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea)