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Rōmānia

[roːˈmaː.ni.a]

name

LanguageLatin

Meaning
  1. Roman Empire
  2. Byzantine Empire
  3. Romania (a country in Southeastern Europe)
  4. A historical term referring to the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire, or the modern-day country of Romania.
Examples

Nam ego quoque ipse virum quemdam Narbonensem ... audivi, se familiarissimum Ataulpho apud Narbonam fuisse: ac de eo ... didicisse, quod ... referre solitus esset, se in primis ardenter inhiasse: ut, obliterato Romano nomine, Romanum omne sŏlum, Gothorum imperium et faceret et vocaret: essetque, ut vulgariter loquar, Gothia, quod Romania fuisset; fieretque nunc Ataulphus quod quondam Caesar Augustus.

I, too, once heard a man from Narbonne who claimed to be very familiar with Athaulf and who had learned that Athaulf would often say that, more than anything else, he desired this: after eliminating the name of Rome, he would make the entire Roman land subject to Gothic power and call it so, calling (if I may speak vulgarly) what was previously Romania as "Gothia". And so Athaulfus would become what Caesar Augustus once was.

Pronunciationroːˈmaː.ni.a

Part of speechname

Usage noteIn later Latin, this term often referred specifically to the Roman world or the lands of the Roman Empire.

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Source: English Wiktionary via kaikki.org (Wiktextract) — Wave 4 (CC-BY-SA-4.0), adapted.