Romania

Southeast Europe
Southeast Europe#English


Romania

A country in Southeast Europe. Capital and largest city: Bucharest.

From Romanian român (“Romanian”) (in turn from Latin romanus (“Roman”)) + -ia. Doublet of Romagna.


Romania

(academic, historical, linguistics) The Latin or Romance-speaking areas of Europe, collectively.

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:

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:

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:

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 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

Byzantine Empire
Byzantine Empire#English

(historical) Synonym of Byzantine Empire, also used for its former territories.

From Latin Rōmānia, from Byzantine Greek Ῥωμανία (Rhōmanía), itself from Latin rōmānus.


Romania

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:


Romania

Romania (nominative singular)
Romania (accusative nominative singular)
Romanian (accusative genitive singular)
Romanian (genitive singular)
Romaniaa (partitive singular)
Romaniassa (inessive singular)
Romaniasta (elative singular)
Romaniaan (illative singular)
Romanialla (adessive singular)
Romanialta (ablative singular)
Romanialle (allative singular)
Romaniana (essive singular)
Romaniaksi (singular translative)
Romaniatta (abessive singular)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
Romaniani (nominative singular)
Romaniani (accusative nominative singular)
Romaniani (accusative genitive singular)
Romaniani (genitive singular)
Romaniaani (partitive singular)
Romaniassani (inessive singular)
Romaniastani (elative singular)
Romaniaani (illative singular)
Romaniallani (adessive singular)
Romanialtani (ablative singular)
Romanialleni (allative singular)
Romanianani (essive singular)
Romaniakseni (singular translative)
Romaniattani (abessive singular)
Romaniasi (nominative singular)
Romaniasi (accusative nominative singular)
Romaniasi (accusative genitive singular)
Romaniasi (genitive singular)
Romaniaasi (partitive singular)
Romaniassasi (inessive singular)
Romaniastasi (elative singular)
Romaniaasi (illative singular)
Romaniallasi (adessive singular)
Romanialtasi (ablative singular)
Romaniallesi (allative singular)
Romanianasi (essive singular)
Romaniaksesi (singular translative)
Romaniattasi (abessive singular)
Romaniamme (nominative singular)
Romaniamme (accusative nominative singular)
Romaniamme (accusative genitive singular)
Romaniamme (genitive singular)
Romaniaamme (partitive singular)
Romaniassamme (inessive singular)
Romaniastamme (elative singular)
Romaniaamme (illative singular)
Romaniallamme (adessive singular)
Romanialtamme (ablative singular)
Romaniallemme (allative singular)
Romanianamme (essive singular)
Romaniaksemme (singular translative)
Romaniattamme (abessive singular)
Romanianne (nominative singular)
Romanianne (accusative nominative singular)
Romanianne (accusative genitive singular)
Romanianne (genitive singular)
Romaniaanne (partitive singular)
Romaniassanne (inessive singular)
Romaniastanne (elative singular)
Romaniaanne (illative singular)
Romaniallanne (adessive singular)
Romanialtanne (ablative singular)
Romaniallenne (allative singular)
Romaniananne (essive singular)
Romaniaksenne (singular translative)
Romaniattanne (abessive singular)
Romaniansa (nominative singular)
Romaniansa (accusative nominative singular)
Romaniansa (accusative genitive singular)
Romaniansa (genitive singular)
Romaniaansa (partitive singular)
Romaniassaan (inessive singular)
Romaniassansa (inessive singular)
Romaniastaan (elative singular)
Romaniastansa (elative singular)
Romaniaansa (illative singular)
Romaniallaan (adessive singular)
Romaniallansa (adessive singular)
Romanialtaan (ablative singular)
Romanialtansa (ablative singular)
Romanialleen (allative singular)
Romaniallensa (allative singular)
Romanianaan (essive singular)
Romanianansa (essive singular)
Romaniakseen (singular translative)
Romaniaksensa (singular translative)
Romaniattaan (abessive singular)
Romaniattansa (abessive singular)

[ˈro̞mɑ̝ˌniɑ̝]


Romania

(academic, historical, linguistics) the Romance speaking areas of Europe

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ῥωμανία (Rhōmanía).


Romania

(historical or linguistics) Romania (Latin or Romance-speaking of Europe)


Romania

(New Latin) Romania (a country in Southeast Europe)

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.

lived ca. 385 CE - ca. 420 CE, Orosius, Historiae adversum paganos 7.43.5

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 [i.e. the first emperor of a new empire].

(historical, Medieval Latin) Byzantine Empire

la-proper noun

Rōmānia f sg (genitive Rōmāniae); first declension

Rōmānia (canonical feminine singular)
Rōmāniae (genitive)
Rōmānia (nominative singular)
Rōmāniae (genitive singular)
Rōmāniae (dative singular)
Rōmāniam (accusative singular)
Rōmāniā (ablative singular)
Rōmānia (singular vocative)

q

from a Vulgar Latin variant <i class="Latn mention" lang="la">Rōmănia</i> with a short a in the second syllable

Proto-Brythonic: *rrʉβ̃ėn (from a Vulgar Latin variant Rōmănia with a short a in the second syllable)

Middle Welsh: Ruuein

Welsh: Rhufain