Hispania

== English == === Alternative forms === Hispany (obsolete, rare) === Etymology === From Latin Hispānia. Doublet of Spain. === Proper noun === Hispania (historical) The Iberian Peninsula, a peninsula and historical region of Southern Europe covering modern-day Spain, Portugal and Andorra, when under the control of Ancient Rome; split into between two and five Roman provinces, depending on the time period. ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== == Finnish == === Etymology === From Latin Hispānia. Doublet of Espanja. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈhispɑniɑ/, [ˈhis̠pɑ̝ˌniɑ̝] Rhymes: -iɑ Syllabification(key): His‧pa‧ni‧a Hyphenation(key): His‧pa‧nia === Proper noun === Hispania (historical) Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula, a peninsula and historical region of Southern Europe covering modern-day Spain, Portugal and Andorra, when under the control of Ancient Rome; split into between two and five Roman provinces, depending on the time period) (obsolete) synonym of Espanja (“Spain”) [late 18th–19th c.] ==== Declension ==== == Ido == === Etymology === Borrowed from English Hispania, Hispanian, Hispanic, French Hispanie, hispanique, Spanish hispano, hispánico, ultimately from Latin Hispānia. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /hi.spa.ˈni.a/ === Proper noun === Hispania Spain (a country in Southern Europe, including most of the Iberian peninsula) ==== Derived terms ==== Hispaniala (“Spanish”) Hispaniana (“Spanish”) Hispaniano (“Spaniard”) === See also === == Latin == === Alternative forms === Spania, Ispania, Yspania, Hyspania (Medieval Latin) === Etymology === Traditionally thought to derive from a Phoenician/Punic name *𐤀𐤉𐤔𐤐𐤍 (*ʾyšpn /⁠*ʔī šap̄ān⁠/, literally “island of the hyrax”), with elements equivalent to Hebrew אִי (ʔī, “island”) and שָׁפָן (šap̄ā́n, “hyrax”), where the Phoenicians would have thought the land's many rabbits to resemble hyraxes. This theory had some currency among Roman authors, and may explain why Hispania is depicted with rabbits on some Roman coins. But later scholars have sometimes doubted this interpretation and proposed other possible Phoenician etyma, like *𐤀𐤉 𐤑𐤐𐤍 (*ʾy ṣpn /⁠*ʔī ṣappūn⁠/, literally “island of the north”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [hɪsˈpaː.ni.a] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [isˈpaː.ni.a] === Proper noun === Hispānia f sg (genitive Hispāniae); first declension Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula, a peninsula and historical region of Southern Europe covering modern-day Spain, Portugal and Andorra, when under the control of Ancient Rome; split into between two and five Roman provinces, depending on the time period) (New Latin) Spain (a country in Southern Europe, including most of the Iberian peninsula) ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun, singular only. ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === == Swahili == === Alternative forms === Uhispania === Etymology === Borrowed from Portuguese Hespanha or Latin Hispania. === Pronunciation === === Proper noun === Hispania Spain (a country in Southern Europe, including most of the Iberian peninsula) ==== Related terms ==== Mhispania