Aromanian

Proper noun

Gallia

1. France

Synonyms

• Frantsia

Latin

Etymology

From Gallus ‎(“a Gaul”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡal.li.a/

Proper noun

Gallia f ‎(genitive Galliae); first declension

1. Gaul (i.e. the country of the Gauls; modern-day France and Belgium)
   • 100 BCE – 44 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.1

     Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres.

     Gaul is a whole divided into three parts.

Declension

First declension, with locative.

Derived terms

• Gallia Belgica
• Gallia Lugdunensis
• Gallia Narbonensis
• Gallia Trānspadāna
• Trēs Galliae

References

• Gallia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Gallia”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

Latin

Noun

gallia

1. nominative plural of gallium
2. accusative plural of gallium
3. vocative plural of gallium

References

• GALLIA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “gallia”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) Gaul is bounded by the Rhone.[TR1: Gallia Rhodano continetur (vid. sect. V. 4., note contineri aliqua re...)
    
• gallia in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers