Terra Australis

la-proper noun

Terra Austrālis f sg (genitive Terrae Austrālis); first declension

Terra Austrālis (canonical feminine singular)
Terrae Austrālis (genitive)
Terra Austrālis (nominative singular)
Terrae Austrālis (genitive singular)
Terrae Austrālī (dative singular)
Terram Austrālem (accusative singular)
Terrā Austrālī (ablative singular)
Terra Austrālis (singular vocative)

[ˈt̪ɛrːä äu̯s̠ˈt̪räːlʲɪs̠]

[ˈt̪ɛrːä äu̯sˈt̪räːlis]

(geography) A hypothetical continent proposed, prior to the discovery of Australia, to exist in the Southern Hemisphere.


geometria

la-noun

geōmetria f (genitive geōmetriae); first declension

geōmetria (canonical feminine)
geōmetriae (genitive)
geōmetria (nominative singular)
geōmetriae (nominative plural)
geōmetriae (genitive singular)
geōmetriārum (genitive plural)
geōmetriae (dative singular)
geōmetriīs (dative plural)
geōmetriam (accusative singular)
geōmetriās (accusative plural)
geōmetriā (ablative singular)
geōmetriīs (ablative plural)
geōmetria (singular vocative)
geōmetriae (plural vocative)

Asturian: xeometría

Catalan: geometria

English: geometry

Esperanto: geometrio

Galician: xeometría

Hungarian: geometria

Italian: geometria

Sicilian: giumitrìa

Spanish: geometría

Polish: geometria

Portuguese: geometria

Slovak: geometria

From Ancient Greek γεωμετρία (geōmetría, “geometry, land-survey”), from γεωμετρέω (geōmetréō, “to practice geometry, to measure or survey”), back-formation from γεωμέτρης (geōmétrēs, “land measurer”), from γῆ (gê, “earth, land, country”) + μετρέω (metréō, “to measure, to count”) or -μετρία (-metría, “measurement”), from μέτρον (métron, “a measure”).


pes

la-noun

pēs m (genitive pedis); third declension

pēs (canonical masculine)
pedis (genitive)
pēs (nominative singular)
pedēs (nominative plural)
pedis (genitive singular)
pedum (genitive plural)
pedī (dative singular)
pedibus (dative plural)
pedem (accusative singular)
pedēs (accusative plural)
pede (ablative singular)
pedibus (ablative plural)
pēs (singular vocative)
pedēs (plural vocative)

Balkan Romance:

⇒ Aromanian: pezã

Romanian: piez ⇒ piază

Dalmatian:

pi

Italo-Romance

Corsican: pede

Gallurese: pedi

Italian: piede

→ Esperanto: piedo

→ Ladino: piede (regional)

Neapolitan: pede

Sassarese: pedi

Sicilian: pedi, peri

Rhaeto-Romance:

Friulian: pît

Romansch: pe

Padanian:

Istriot: peîe, pèie

Gallo-Italic:

Ligurian: pê

Piedmontese: pe

Romagnol: pè, pid (Rimini, San Marino)

Venetan: piè

Northern Gallo-Romance:

Franco-Provençal: pièd

Norman: pid, pyid

desctree

Old French: pié, pé (Anglo-Norman), *pied, *piet
Middle French: pied
French: pied
Walloon: pî

Southern Gallo-Romance:

Catalan: peu

Old Occitan: pe
Occitan: pè

Ibero-Romance:

Asturian: pie

Extremaduran: pie

Leonese: pía

Mirandese: pie

Navarro-Aragonese: pie, pied

Aragonese: piet

Old Galician-Portuguese: pee
Galician: pé
Portuguese: pé

Old Spanish: pie
Ladino: pye
Spanish: pie

Sardinian:

Campidanese: pei

Logudorese: pe

Nuorese: pede

Derived forms:

⇒ Vulgar Latin: *pedicāre

Catalan: petjar

Borrowings:

→ English: pes

→ Ido: pedo

→ Interlingua: pede

→⇒ German: stante pede

From Proto-Italic *pets, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds (compare Sanskrit पद् (pád), Ancient Greek πούς (poús) and Old English fōt, whence English foot).

a foot, in its senses as
(geography) the base of a mountain

a foot, in its senses as
the base of a mountain


mappa

la-noun

mappa f (genitive mappae); first declension

mappae (genitive)
mappa (nominative singular)
mappae (nominative plural)
mappae (genitive singular)
mappārum (genitive plural)
mappae (dative singular)
mappīs (dative plural)
mappam (accusative singular)
mappās (accusative plural)
mappā (ablative singular)
mappīs (ablative plural)
mappa (singular vocative)
mappae (plural vocative)

→ Catalan: mapa m

→ Danish: mappe

→ English: map
→ Swedish: mappa

→ Esperanto: mapo

Galician: mapa m

desctree

→ German: Mappe
→ Czech: mapa
→ Dutch: map
→ Romanian: mapă

Italian: mappa

Mirandese: mapa

→ Old French: mapamonde

desc

> French: mappemonde, mapper (inherited)

Middle English: mapemounde

English: map

> Old French: nappe (inherited)

→ English: nape, napkin

⇒ Portuguese: guardanapo

desctree

→ Polish: mapa
→ Belarusian: ма́па (mápa)
→ Ukrainian: ма́па (mápa)
→ Yiddish: מאַפּע (mape)

Portuguese: mapa m

Sicilian: mappa, mappina

Spanish: mapa m

Venetan: mapa

Said by the Roman author Quintilian to be of Punic origin, perhaps from Phoenician 𐤌𐤀𐤐 (mʾp /mappē/), from Proto-Semitic *manpay, *manpiy- (“fine cloth, sieve”). Compare Israeli Hebrew מַפָּה (mappā́, “a map; a cloth”).


striga

la-noun

striga f (genitive strigae); first declension

strigae (genitive)
striga (nominative singular)
strigae (nominative plural)
strigae (genitive singular)
strigārum (genitive plural)
strigae (dative singular)
strigīs (dative plural)
strigam (accusative singular)
strigās (accusative plural)
strigā (ablative singular)
strigīs (ablative plural)
striga (singular vocative)
strigae (plural vocative)

From Proto-Italic *strigā, from what looks like a cross of Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (“to brush, strip, shear”) and Proto-Indo-European *strengʰ- (“to draw, tie”).

der

(surveying) A strip of ground longer than broad.

A strip of ground longer than broad.
A side-avenue in camp.


frons

la-noun

frōns f (genitive frontis); third declension

frōns (canonical feminine)
frontis (genitive)
frōns (nominative singular)
frontēs (nominative plural)
frontis (genitive singular)
frontium (genitive plural)
frontī (dative singular)
frontibus (dative plural)
frontem (accusative singular)
frontēs (accusative plural)
frontīs (accusative plural)
fronte (ablative singular)
frontibus (ablative plural)
frōns (singular vocative)
frontēs (plural vocative)

Dalmatian: fruant

Eastern Romance:

desc

Aromanian: frãmti f, frãmte, frumti, frumte, frunti, frunte

Romanian: frunte f

Italian: fronte f

desctree

Old French: front m
French: front m (see there for further descendants)
Norman: front m
→ Dutch: front
→ Middle English: frount, ffront, ffrount, front, fronte, frounte, frountte, frownt, frownte, frunt, frunte
English: front (see there for further descendants)
Scots: front

Old Leonese:

Asturian: frente f

Old Occitan: front

Catalan: front m

Occitan: frònt m

Old Galician-Portuguese: fronte

Galician: fronte f

Portuguese: fronte f

Old Spanish: fruente f

Ladino:

Hebrew script: פ׳רינטי

Latin script: frente

Spanish: frente f (see there for further descendants)

Romagnol: frònta

Sicilian: frunti f

→ English: frons

→ Friulian: front

→ Romansch: frunt, frùnt, front

→ Sardinian: fronte, fronti, frunte

→ Spanish: frontis

→ Venetan: front

From Proto-Italic *fronts, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrónts (compare Irish braine (“prow, edge”), Old Norse brandr (“sword blade”)), from *bʰren- (“to project; edge”).

(surveying, geography) frontage (the part facing the road, river, coastline), usually in ref. to its length

the coastline; a projecting piece of coast


supernus

la-adj

supernus (feminine superna, neuter supernum, adverb superne); first/second-declension adjective

superna (feminine)
supernum (neuter)
superne (adverb)
supernus (masculine nominative singular)
superna (feminine nominative singular)
supernum (neuter nominative singular)
supernī (masculine nominative plural)
supernae (feminine nominative plural)
superna (neuter nominative plural)
supernī (genitive masculine singular)
supernae (feminine genitive singular)
supernī (genitive neuter singular)
supernōrum (genitive masculine plural)
supernārum (feminine genitive plural)
supernōrum (genitive neuter plural)
supernō (dative masculine singular)
supernae (dative feminine singular)
supernō (dative neuter singular)
supernīs (dative feminine masculine neuter plural)
supernum (accusative masculine singular)
supernam (accusative feminine singular)
supernum (accusative neuter singular)
supernōs (accusative masculine plural)
supernās (accusative feminine plural)
superna (accusative neuter plural)
supernō (ablative masculine singular)
supernā (ablative feminine singular)
supernō (ablative neuter singular)
supernīs (ablative feminine masculine neuter plural)
superne (masculine singular vocative)
superna (feminine singular vocative)
supernum (neuter singular vocative)
supernī (masculine plural vocative)
supernae (feminine plural vocative)
superna (neuter plural vocative)

English: supernal

French: supernel

Italian: superno

Most likely a back-formation from supernē.

Fīnibus est Asiae latus artum lingua supernīs,
Caspia quam mediam faciunt atque aequora pontī
Euxīnī: locus hic discrīmen dīcitur esse

5th C. CE, Priscian (translator), Periegesis 29–33, original author: Dionysius Periegetes, in Poetae Latini Minores (volume V), Emil Baehrens (editor), Bibliotheca Teubneriana, Leipzig 1879, page 276

The northern limits of Asia Minor have a narrow flank, a tongue,
which the Caspian Sea and the waters of the Black Sea create
in the middle: this place is said to be the separation
of Europe and Asia, distinguising the country from the fields.

Eurōpae atque Asiae disiungēns rūribus arva.

(geography, figuratively, rare) northern


typus

la-noun

typus m (genitive typī); second declension

typī (genitive)
typus (nominative singular)
typī (nominative plural)
typī (genitive singular)
typōrum (genitive plural)
typō (dative singular)
typīs (dative plural)
typum (accusative singular)
typōs (accusative plural)
typō (ablative singular)
typīs (ablative plural)
type (singular vocative)
typī (plural vocative)

→ Catalan: tipus

desctree

→ English: type
→ Japanese: タイプ
→ Korean: 타입 (taip)

→ French: type
→ Polish: typ
→ Romanian: tip
→ Persian: تیپ (tip)
→ Turkish: tip

→ German: Typ

→ Hungarian: típus

Italian: tipo

→ Portuguese: tipo

Spanish: tipo

From Ancient Greek τῠ́πος (túpos, “mark”, “impression”, “type”), from τῠ́πτω (túptō, “I strike, beat”).


groma

la-noun

grōma f (genitive grōmae); first declension

grōma (canonical feminine)
grōmae (genitive)
grōma (nominative singular)
grōmae (nominative plural)
grōmae (genitive singular)
grōmārum (genitive plural)
grōmae (dative singular)
grōmīs (dative plural)
grōmam (accusative singular)
grōmās (accusative plural)
grōmā (ablative singular)
grōmīs (ablative plural)
grōma (singular vocative)
grōmae (plural vocative)

→ English: groma

→ Italian: groma

→ Portuguese: groma

→ Spanish: groma

the centre of a military camp (marked by such an instrument)


plinthus

plinthus m or f (genitive plinthī); second declension

plinthī (genitive)
plinthus (nominative singular)
plinthī (nominative plural)
plinthī (genitive singular)
plinthōrum (genitive plural)
plinthō (dative singular)
plinthīs (dative plural)
plinthum (accusative singular)
plinthōs (accusative plural)
plinthō (ablative singular)
plinthīs (ablative plural)
plinthe (singular vocative)
plinthī (plural vocative)

Italian: plinto

Middle French: plinte

French: plinthe

→ Dutch: plint

→ English: plinth

Portuguese: plinto

→ Russian: пли́нтус (plíntus)

→ Ukrainian: плі́нтус (plíntus)

Spanish: plinto

[ˈplʲɪn̪t̪ʰʊs̠]

From Ancient Greek πλίνθος (plínthos, “brick”); possibly from earlier Pre-Greek.


ultima Thule

la-noun

ultima Thūlē f (genitive ultimae Thūlēs); first declension

ultima Thūlē (canonical feminine)
ultimae Thūlēs (genitive)
ultima Thūlē (nominative singular)
ultimae Thūlae (nominative plural)
ultimae Thūlēs (genitive singular)
ultimārum Thūlārum (genitive plural)
ultimae Thūlae (dative singular)
ultimīs Thūlīs (dative plural)
ultimam Thūlēn (accusative singular)
ultimās Thūlās (accusative plural)
ultimā Thūlē (ablative singular)
ultimīs Thūlīs (ablative plural)
ultima Thūlē (singular vocative)
ultimae Thūlae (plural vocative)


Ampelusia

la-proper noun

Ampelūsia f sg (genitive Ampelūsiae); first declension

Ampelūsia (canonical feminine singular)
Ampelūsiae (genitive)
Ampelūsia (nominative singular)
Ampelūsiae (genitive singular)
Ampelūsiae (dative singular)
Ampelūsiam (accusative singular)
Ampelūsiā (ablative singular)
Ampelūsia (singular vocative)

[ämpɛˈɫ̪uːs̠iä]

(geography) A promontory in ancient Mauretania, situated near Tingis in modern Morocco


Ultima Thule

la-noun

Ultima Thūlē f (genitive Ultimae Thūlēs); first declension

Ultima Thūlē (canonical feminine)
Ultimae Thūlēs (genitive)
Ultima Thūlē (nominative singular)
Ultimae Thūlae (nominative plural)
Ultimae Thūlēs (genitive singular)
Ultimārum Thūlārum (genitive plural)
Ultimae Thūlae (dative singular)
Ultimīs Thūlīs (dative plural)
Ultimam Thūlēn (accusative singular)
Ultimās Thūlās (accusative plural)
Ultimā Thūlē (ablative singular)
Ultimīs Thūlīs (ablative plural)
Ultima Thūlē (singular vocative)
Ultimae Thūlae (plural vocative)

(cartography) Alternative letter-case form of ultima Thule


-tes

-tēs (canonical masculine)
-tae (genitive)
-tēs (nominative singular)
-tae (nominative plural)
-tae (genitive singular)
-tārum (genitive plural)
-tae (dative singular)
-tīs (dative plural)
-tēn (accusative singular)
-tās (accusative plural)
-tē (ablative singular)
-tīs (ablative plural)
-tē (singular vocative)
-tae (plural vocative)

From Ancient Greek -της (-tēs) (sense 1.1) and Illyrian (sense 1.2), for which compare also -tae, -stae, -stinī. Compare Latin poeta from Ancient Greek ποιητής (poiētḗs), and Latin agricola from Latin -a.

Attalīa + -tes → Attalīatēs

Ēpīros + -tes → Ēpīrōtēs

Tegea + -tes → Tegeātēs

Found in demonyms formed on toponyms. -iot, -ian

Apsoros + -tes → Apsortes

Flanona + -tes → Flanates


Apenninus

la-proper noun

Ā̆pennīnus m (genitive Ā̆pennīnī); second declension

Ā̆pennīnus (canonical masculine)
Ā̆pennīnī (genitive)
Ā̆pennīnus (nominative singular)
Ā̆pennīnī (nominative plural)
Ā̆pennīnī (genitive singular)
Ā̆pennīnōrum (genitive plural)
Ā̆pennīnō (dative singular)
Ā̆pennīnīs (dative plural)
Ā̆pennīnum (accusative singular)
Ā̆pennīnōs (accusative plural)
Ā̆pennīnō (ablative singular)
Ā̆pennīnīs (ablative plural)
Ā̆pennīne (singular vocative)
Ā̆pennīnī (plural vocative)
Ā̆pennīnī (locative singular)
Ā̆pennīnīs (locative plural)

English: Apennines

Italian: Appennini


Basclonia

Giraldus Cambrensis (c. 1170–1220) James F. Dimock, editor, Expugnatio Hibernica (Giraldi Cambrensis opera), volume 5, published 1867, Book II, chapter [VI], pages 319–320.
Quippe Gurguncium, Belini filium et Britanniae regem, a Dacia cum triumpho redeuntem, Basclensium classem, apud Orcades inventam, vise ducibus eis adhibitis, primo in Hiberniam transmisisse Britannica testatur historia.
Testatur quoque, famosum illum Britannise regem Arturum Hibernise reges tributarios habuisse ; et magnae Urbis Legionum curise Gillomarum Hibernine regem, cum aliis regibus insulanis interfuisse.
Prseterea urbs Baonensis, quam hodie nostra continet Gasconia, Blasconise caput est, unde Hibernenses provenerant. ...
First, we have the testimony of the British History, that Gurguntius, the son of Belinus, and king of Britain, on his return in triumph from Denmark, met the fleet of the Basclenses at the Orkney islands, and set them forward to Ireland, giving them pilots to direct their course thither.
The same history informs us also that Arthur, the renowned king of Britain, had kings of Ireland tributary to him, and that Gillomarus, king of Ireland, with other kings of the isles, came to his court at Caerleon.
Moreover, the city of Bayonne, which belongs at present to our Gascony, is the capital of Basclonia, from whence the Irish migrated. ...

(Medieval Latin, geography) Alternative form of Vasconia (“Basque Country”)


Laletania

The latinized forms Laeetani, Iacetani, Lacetani and Laletani are known, borrowed from local demonyms, possibly via Ancient Greek. Of the four, the former two have some epigraphic finds matching them, so modern translators and lexicographers tend to prefer them over Laletania and Laletani.

(Ancient Rome, geography) A historical region in modern Catalonia, northeastern Spain, named by the Romans after its local peoples