Westsaxonia

Westsaxō +‎ -ia

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [wɛs(t).sakˈsoː.ni.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [west̪.sakˈsɔː.ni.a]

Westsaxōnia f sg (genitive Westsaxōniae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin, England) Wessex
   • c. 1340, John of Glastonbury, Cronica sive Antiquitates Glastoniensis Ecclesie; republished as David Townsend, transl., edited by James P. Carley, The Chronicle of Glastonbury Abbey […], 1985, →ISBN, page 80:

     Cerdicus autem postquam regnauerat in Westsaxonia quindecim annis moritur et successit ei Kinricus filius suus viginti septem annis regnaturus.

     After Cerdic had reigned in Wessex for fifteen years he died, and his son Cynric, who reigned for twenty-seven years, succeeded him.

First-declension noun, singular only.

• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “Westsaxonia”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC