Vatican City

Calque of Italian Città del Vaticano, from Latin Cīvitās Vāticāna (“Vatican City”), referring to the Vatican hill, ultimately from vāticinor (“I prophesy”).

Vatican City State
Vatican City State#English

A city-state in Southern Europe, an enclave within the city of Rome, Italy. Official name: Vatican City State.


Frosinone

A city, the provincial capital of Frosinone, Lazio, Italy.


Latina

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A town, the provincial capital of Latina, Lazio, Italy.


Viterbo

A town, the provincial capital of Viterbo, Lazio, Italy.


Rieti

The capital city of the province of Rieti, Lazio, Italy.


Ostia

* (Roman Empire): Latin Ostia
* (Italy): Italian Ostia, from Latin Ostia

A modern refounding of the ancient town at the mouth of the Tiber, now a neighbourhood of Rome, Italy


Rome

→ Hindi: रोम (rom)

→ Thai: โรม (room)

From Middle English Rome, from Old English Rōm, Rūm, from Proto-West Germanic *Rūmu, from Proto-Germanic *Rūmō and influenced by Late Latin Rōma (“Rome, Constantinople”), from Classical Latin Rōma (“Rome”). In Roman mythology, the name was said to derive from Romulus, one of the founders of the city and its first king.
The name appears in a wide range of forms in Middle English, including Rom, Room, Roome, and Rombe as well as Rome; by early modern English, it appeared as Rome, Room, and Roome, with the spelling Rome occurring in Shakespeare and common from the early 18th century on. The final spelling was influenced by Norman, Middle French, Anglo-Norman, and Old French Rome. Doublet of Roma and Rum.

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do not sit in Rome and strive with the Pope

When could they say (till now) that talk'd of Rome,
That her wide Walles incompast but one man?
Now is it Rome indeed, and Roome enough
When there is in it but one onely man.

1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], line 157:

Within the last thirty weeks I have heard the word Rome pronounced Room by several old-fashioned people in the north of Ireland, some of my own relations among the number. On remonstrating with one of these, she said, "It was always Room when I was at school (say about 1830), and I am too old to change it now."

1866 December 8, 'Filius Ecclesiæ', Notes & Queries, "Rome:Room", 456 1

A city on the Tiber River on the Italian peninsula; ancient capital of the Roman Empire; capital city of Italy; capital city of the region of Lazio.


Vatican

→ Japanese: バチカン (Bachikan)

Learned borrowing from Latin Vātī̆cānus (“Vatican Hill”), further etymology unknown. The connection to vāticinārī (“to prophesy, oracle”) is folk-etymological.


Fleming

From Middle English flameng, from late Old English Flæmingi, from Old Norse Flǽmingr, Middle Dutch Vlaminc, Vleminc, from Old Frisian (unattested) (compare West Frisian Flaming), from Proto-Germanic *flaumaz (“flowing, current (water)”) and the patronymic suffix *-ingaz (“belonging to, descended from”). More at Flanders.


Tiber

They traversed the Tiber without remarking it; they arrived at Rome by the gate of the people, which conducts immediately to the Corso, to the largest street of the modern city; […]

1807, [Germaine] de Staël Holstein, translated by D[ennis] Lawler, “[Book I. Oswald.] Chap[ter] V.”, in Corinna; or, Italy. […], volume I, London: […] Corri, […]; and sold by Colburn, […], and Mackenzie, […], →OCLC, page 51:

The river that flows through Rome in Italy.


Trastevere

A district of Rome, Italy, on the west bank of the Tiber.


Tivoli

An ancient city in the province of Rome, Lazio, Italy.


Cave

A place name:
A town and comune in Lazio, Italy.


Gaeta

A coastal town in the province of Latina, Lazio, Italy


Anzio

A coastal town and comune in Lazio region, Italy.


Fiumicino

An airport in Lazio, Italy, and the main airport of Rome.


Marino

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Marino (countable and uncountable, plural Marinos)

A place name:
A city and comune in Lazio, Italy.


Formia

A town and comune in Latina province, Lazio, Italy.


Janiculum

Derived from the name of the Roman deity Iānus (“Janus”), from iānus (“arcade, covered passageway”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey- (“to go”).


Civitavecchia

A comune and port in the Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio region, Italy.


Ponza

An island off the coast of Lazio, Italy, in the Pontine Islands, Tyrrhenian Sea, Mediterranean


Viminal

Rome Termini is the only long-distance passenger station serving the city. Situated on the Viminal, one of the Seven Hills, near the Baths of Diocletian, it was opened in 1871 during the expansion of Rome after it had become the capital of the Kingdom of Italy.

1950 February, “The "Rome Express"”, in Railway Magazine, page 78:

The smallest of the seven hills of Rome, Italy.


Castel Gandolfo

A town in Lazio region, Italy, south-east of Rome.