Interlingua

Noun

provincia ‎(plural provincias)

1. province

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pro.ˈvin.t͡ʃa/

Etymology

From Latin prōvincia.

Noun

provincia f ‎(plural province or provincie)

1. province

Latin

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- ‎(“to go over”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *frawjô.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /proːˈwin.ki.a/

Noun

prōvincia f ‎(genitive prōvinciae); first declension

1. province, office, duty, command

   Provinciam remitto.

   I abandon my province.

Inflection

First declension.

Derived terms

• prōvinciālis
• prōvinciātim

Descendants

• English: province, Provence
• Dutch: provincie
• French: Provence
• German: Provinz
• Old Portuguese: Proença
• Portuguese: Provença, província (borrowing)
• Russian: провинция ‎(provincija)

References

• provincia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• provincia in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• PROVINCIA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “provincia”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to entrust some one with an official duty, a province: provinciam alicui decernere, mandare
    
  • to draw lots for the provinces: provincias sortiri (Liv. 38. 35)
    
  • (the magistrates) arrange among themselves the administration of the provinces, the offical spheres of duty: provincias inter se comparant
    
  • to set out for one's province: in provinciam proficisci (Liv. 38. 35)
    
  • to exchange provinces: provincias permutare
    
  • to manage, govern a province: provinciam administrare, obtinere
    
  • to visit, traverse a province: provinciam obire
    
  • to make Asia into a Roman province: Asiam in provinciae formam (in provinciam) redigere (B. G. 1. 45)
    
• provincia in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• provincia in William Smith., editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• provincia in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume III, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 810

Portuguese

Noun

provincia f (plural provincias)

1. Obsolete spelling of província

Spanish

Noun

provincia f ‎(plural provincias)

1. province

Descendants

• Tagalog: probinsiya