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Romania en · PROPN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /-nɪ.ə/ (Scotland)
  • /ɹoˈmaː.nja/ (Philippines)
  • /ɹʊˈmeɪ.ni.ə/ (Received-Pronunciation, US)
  • /ɹəˈmeɪ.ni.ə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ɹuːˈmeɪ.ni.ə/ (Received-Pronunciation, US)
  • /ɾoːˈmeː.ni.ə/ (Wales)
  • (UK) audio
  • (US) audio
  • /-ni.ə/ (Scotland)
  • /ɹəʊˈmeɪ.ni.ə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ɾoˈme.ne.ə/ (Scotland)
  • /ɹoʊˈmeɪ.ni.ə/ (General-American)

Etymology

From Romanian România, from român (“Romanian”) (in turn from Latin Rōmānus (“Roman”)) + -ia.

Meanings

  1. A country in Southeastern Europe. Capital and largest city: Bucharest.
    • There is strong resistance in much of Europe to fracking, the practice of forcing liquid and sand into wells to release trapped oil and gas. France has a ban on fracking, Germany has imposed a moratorium, and opposition has cropped up and sometimes delayed shale exploration in Eastern European countries like Romania and Poland. 2014 November 9, Stanley Reed, “Britain Plans for Future of Shale Oil and Gas Industry”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 18 Jan 2022:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
România alternative, rare lexicographic
Rumania alternative, archaic lexicographic
Roumania alternative, archaic lexicographic

Deriveds

Romanian · Romano- · Kingdom of Romania · Roexit

Translations (159)

nan-hbl 羅馬尼亞 /罗马尼亚 (South-Eastern European country) · hi रोमानिया (South-Eastern European country) · sco Roumainie (South-Eastern European country) · sh Ру̀мӯнија (South-Eastern European country) · mr रोमेनिया (South-Eastern European country) · nah Rumantlān (South-Eastern European country) · be Румы́нія (South-Eastern European country) · bua Румыни (South-Eastern European country) · rup Rumãnia (South-Eastern European country) · ro România (South-Eastern European country) · cu Роумꙑнїꙗ (South-Eastern European country) · ota رومانیا (South-Eastern European country) · tl Rumanya (South-Eastern European country) · sq Rumani (South-Eastern European country) · aii ܪܗ݇ܘܿܡܵܢܝܼܵܐ (South-Eastern European country) · bo རོ་མ་ནི་ཡ (South-Eastern European country) · crh Romaniya (South-Eastern European country) · eu Errumania (South-Eastern European country) · chr ᎶᎹᏂᏯ (South-Eastern European country) · ha Romaniya (South-Eastern European country) · kk Румыния (South-Eastern European country) · ky Румыния (South-Eastern European country) · io Rumania (South-Eastern European country) · hsb Rumunska (South-Eastern European country) · sq Gogëni (South-Eastern European country) · es Rumania (South-Eastern European country) · ur رومانِیَہ (South-Eastern European country) · or ରୋମାନିଆ (South-Eastern European country) · dv ރުމޭނިއާ (South-Eastern European country) · an Rumanía (South-Eastern European country) · ms Romania (South-Eastern European country) · hu Románia (South-Eastern European country) · pt Romênia (South-Eastern European country) · sk Rumunsko (South-Eastern European country) · sl Romúnija (South-Eastern European country) · am ሮማንያ (South-Eastern European country) · mk Романија (South-Eastern European country) · ar رُومَانِيَا (South-Eastern European country) · se Románia (South-Eastern European country) · oc Romania (South-Eastern European country) · nl Roemenië (South-Eastern European country) · rup Romãnia (South-Eastern European country) · as ৰোমানিয়া (South-Eastern European country) · oc Roumagnu (South-Eastern European country) · fi Romania (South-Eastern European country) · ne रोमानिया (South-Eastern European country) · mt ir-Rumanija (South-Eastern European country) · th โรมาเนีย (South-Eastern European country) · ka რუმინეთი (South-Eastern European country) · nv Wooméiniya (South-Eastern European country) · eo Rumanio (South-Eastern European country) · tk Rumyniýa (South-Eastern European country) · fur Romanie (South-Eastern European country) · rup Rãmãnii (South-Eastern European country) · haw Romānia (South-Eastern European country) · ta உருமேனியா (South-Eastern European country) · lo ລູມານີ (South-Eastern European country) · pl Rumunia (South-Eastern European country) · cs Rumunsko (South-Eastern European country) · it Romania (South-Eastern European country) · mn ᠷᠣᠮᠠᠨᠢᠶ᠎ᠠ (South-Eastern European country) · liv Rumāņmō (South-Eastern European country) · ast Rumanía (South-Eastern European country) · sah Румыния (South-Eastern European country) · ru Румы́ния (South-Eastern European country) · sh Ру̀мӯњска̄ (South-Eastern European country) · rup Armãnia (South-Eastern European country) · gu રોમાનિયા (South-Eastern European country) · mn Румын (South-Eastern European country) · rup Rumãnii (South-Eastern European country) · af Roemenië (South-Eastern European country) · da Rumænien (South-Eastern European country) · mn ᠷᠦᠮᠢᠨ (South-Eastern European country) · cy Rwmania (South-Eastern European country) · ce Румыни (South-Eastern European country) · et Rumeenia (South-Eastern European country) · fr Roumanie (South-Eastern European country) · az Rumıniya (South-Eastern European country) · kmr Romanya (South-Eastern European country) · vi Lỗ Má Ni (South-Eastern European country) · ko 로므니아 (South-Eastern European country) · cv Румыни (South-Eastern European country) · ga An Rómáin (South-Eastern European country) · nn Romania (South-Eastern European country) · km រូម៉ានី (South-Eastern European country) · fo Rumenia (South-Eastern European country) · ko 루마니아 (South-Eastern European country) · vro Romaania (South-Eastern European country) · eo Rumanujo (South-Eastern European country) · es Rumanía (South-Eastern European country) · rup Rãmãnia (South-Eastern European country) · ug رۇمىنىيە (South-Eastern European country) · sq Rumania (South-Eastern European country) · sw Romania (South-Eastern European country) · nrf Roumanie (South-Eastern European country) · pa ਰੋਮਾਨੀਆ (South-Eastern European country) · rup Romãnii (South-Eastern European country) · za Lozmajnizya (South-Eastern European country) · co Rumenia (South-Eastern European country) · sv Rumänien (South-Eastern European country) · tg Руминия (South-Eastern European country) · vi România (South-Eastern European country) · yue 羅馬尼亞 /罗马尼亚 (South-Eastern European country) · uz Ruminiya (South-Eastern European country) · gag Romıniya (South-Eastern European country) · nb Romania (South-Eastern European country) · cmn 羅馬尼亞 /罗马尼亚 (South-Eastern European country) · br Roumania (South-Eastern European country) · yi רומעניע (South-Eastern European country) · dsb Rumuńska (South-Eastern European country) · prs رومَانِیَا (South-Eastern European country) · csb Rumùńskô (South-Eastern European country) · sh Rùmūnjskā (South-Eastern European country) · ml റൊമാനിയ (South-Eastern European country) · lt Rumunija (South-Eastern European country) · vi Ru-ma-ni (South-Eastern European country) · ro Ромыния (South-Eastern European country) · bn রোমানিয়া (South-Eastern European country) · is Rúmenía (South-Eastern European country) · ak Romania (South-Eastern European country) · ca Romania (South-Eastern European country) · ia Romania (South-Eastern European country) · ti ሮሜኒያ (South-Eastern European country) · lad Rumania (South-Eastern European country) · lv Rumānija (South-Eastern European country) · pt Roménia (South-Eastern European country) · uk Руму́нія (South-Eastern European country) · ps رومانیا (South-Eastern European country) · hy Ռումինիա (South-Eastern European country) · ja ルーマニア (South-Eastern European country) · si රුමේනියාව (South-Eastern European country) · lo ຣູມານີ (South-Eastern European country) · rup Armãnii (South-Eastern European country) · fy Roemeenje (South-Eastern European country) · he רוֹמַנְיָה (South-Eastern European country) · rom i Rumùnia (South-Eastern European country) · my ရူမေးနီးယား (South-Eastern European country) · rue Руму́ньско (South-Eastern European country) · el Ρουμανία (South-Eastern European country) · ab Румыниа (South-Eastern European country) · tt Румыния (South-Eastern European country) · scn Rumanìa (South-Eastern European country) · sco Romanie (South-Eastern European country) · ba Румыния (South-Eastern European country) · bg Румъ́ния (South-Eastern European country) · la Rōmānia (South-Eastern European country) · szl Růmůńijo (South-Eastern European country) · sq Gogëri (South-Eastern European country) · de Rumänien (South-Eastern European country) · id Rumania (South-Eastern European country) · kn ರೊಮಾನಿಯ (South-Eastern European country) · gur Domaŋo (South-Eastern European country) · te రొమేనియా (South-Eastern European country) · yo Ròmáníà (South-Eastern European country) · gl Romanía (South-Eastern European country) · sh Rùmūnija (South-Eastern European country) · fa-ira رومانی (South-Eastern European country) · rm Rumenia (South-Eastern European country) · tr Romanya (South-Eastern European country)

Romania en · PROPN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • /-nɪ.ə/ (Scotland)
  • /ɹoˈmaː.nja/ (Philippines)
  • /ɹʊˈmeɪ.ni.ə/ (Received-Pronunciation, US)
  • /ɹəˈmeɪ.ni.ə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ɹuːˈmeɪ.ni.ə/ (Received-Pronunciation, US)
  • /ɾoːˈmeː.ni.ə/ (Wales)
  • (UK) audio
  • (US) audio
  • /-ni.ə/ (Scotland)
  • /ɹəʊˈmeɪ.ni.ə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ɾoˈme.ne.ə/ (Scotland)
  • /ɹoʊˈmeɪ.ni.ə/ (General-American)

Etymology

From Latin Rōmānia, from Byzantine Greek Ῥωμανία (Rhōmanía), itself from Latin Rōmānus. By surface analysis, Roman + -ia. Doublet of Romagna.

Meanings

  1. (historical, literary) The Latin- or Romance-speaking areas of Europe, collectively.
  2. (historical) Synonym of Byzantine Empire, also used for its former territories.
    • There is a significant coincidence of dates between several events: the splitting of the Paulician community in Rhomania in consequence of Séryios’s innovations; the breach between Séryios’s partisans and the East Roman Imperial Government, […] 1973, Arnold Joseph Toynbee, Constantine Porphyrogenitus and his world, page 682:
    • The Doge of Venice was honored with his full title of dominator of one-quarter and one-eighth of the whole Empire of Romania; and he was promised repossession of all the rights and properties that his people had held in Constantinople in the years of the Latin occupation. 1988, Donald M. Nicol, Byzantium and Venice: A Study in Diplomatic and Cultural Relations, page 208:
    • If the Constantinopolitan Byzantines regarded the Anatolian Turkic territories as lands temporarily lost from their indivisible universal Rhomania, the Turkoman rulers of the twelfth century considered Rhomania as being factually divided between several rulers. 1999, Rustam Shukurov, “Turkoman and Byzantine Self-Identity: Some reflections on the Logic of the Title-Making in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Anatolia”, in Eastern Approaches to Byzantium: Papers from the Thirty-Third Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies:
    • The Fourth Crusade ended in 1204 with the Western or Latin conquest of Constantinople and signalled the beginning of a new era in the history of the Byzantine lands or Romania. 1989, David Jacoby, “From Byzantium to Latin Romania: Continuity and Change”, in Latins and Greeks in the Eastern Mediterranean After 1204, page 1:
    • The dramatic fall of Constantinople in 1204 and the Latin conquest of the Empire’s provinces in the following decade resulted in the dismemberment of Romania. 2001, David Jacoby, “Changing Economic Patterns in Latin Romania: The Impact of the West”, in The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World, page 197:
    • Next to them, the maritime region extending south to the Hellespont is Romania—a Greek nation, though it was once barbarian, and it is returning to barbarism in our own time, now that the empire of the Greeks has been destroyed and the Turks hold sway. The capital city of this country [Thrace] is Byzantium, formerly called Agios. 2013, Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (Pope Pius II), trans. Robert Brown, Europe (c.1400-1458), page 69
    • In this letter the basileus informed the Pope that Béla III had attacked Serbia, since he was not content with his own country, “which he acquired with difficulties and with the help of the armies and the money of Rhomania [i.e. Byzantium]”. 1989, Ferenc Makk, The Árpáds and the Comneni: political relations between Hungary and Byzantium in the 12th century, page 110:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
Rhomania alternative lexicographic

Synonyms

Byzantine Empire · also used for its former territories

Romania en · PROPN · etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • /-nɪ.ə/ (Scotland)
  • /ɹoˈmaː.nja/ (Philippines)
  • /ɹʊˈmeɪ.ni.ə/ (Received-Pronunciation, US)
  • /ɹəˈmeɪ.ni.ə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ɹuːˈmeɪ.ni.ə/ (Received-Pronunciation, US)
  • /ɾoːˈmeː.ni.ə/ (Wales)
  • (UK) audio
  • (US) audio
  • /-ni.ə/ (Scotland)
  • /ɹəʊˈmeɪ.ni.ə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ɾoˈme.ne.ə/ (Scotland)
  • /ɹoʊˈmeɪ.ni.ə/ (General-American)

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, obsolete) Obsolete form of Romagna.
    alt of Romagna
    • In the end of Ianuarie, Borbon passed the Po with all his troupes, and directed his iourney towards Romania: […] 1629 [1619], Paolo Sarpi, translated by Nathaniel Brent, The Historie of the Councel of Trent […], London: Bonham Norton and John Bill, →OCLC, book 1, paragraph 97, page 43: