English

Proper noun

Lusitania

1. ancient Roman province, roughly corresponding to modern Portugal
2. (archaic, poetic) Portugal

Derived terms

• Lusitanian

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From Lusitanus +‎ -ia, named after the Lusitanians, an Indo-European tribe of the Iberian peninsula (from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia). The name's origin is uncertain but it is generally agreed that the tribe converged with a heavy Celtic (possibly Celtiberian) influence.

The province within the Roman Empire

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /luː.siˈtaː.ni.a/

Proper noun

Lūsitānia f ‎(genitive Lūsitāniae); first declension

1. A province of Roman Hispania, covering what is now southern Portugal and parts of western Spain such as Extremadura.

Inflection

Alternatively, the second syllable can be written long as Lūsītānia. First declension, with locative.

Related terms

• Lūsitānī
• Lūsitānus

Descendants

• English: Lusitania

References

• Lusitania in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Lusitania”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Koch, John T (2011). Tartessian 2: The Inscription of Mesas do Castelinho ro and the Verbal Complex. Preliminaries to Historical Phonology. Oxbow Books, Oxford, UK. pp. 33–34. ISBN 978-1-907029-07-3.

Spanish

Proper noun

Lusitania f

1. Lusitania (ancient Roman province)

Spanish

Noun

lusitania f ‎(plural lusitanias, masculine lusitano)

1. feminine of lusitano