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Frisia

See also: Frísia and frisia

English

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Etymology

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From Latin Frisia, from Frisii (“Frisians”).

Proper noun

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Frisia

  2. (historical) A coastal region along the southeastern corner of the North Sea in what today is mostly a large part of the Netherlands (including present-day Frisia (see below)) and smaller parts of northern Germany (including present-day East Frisia). It is the traditional homeland of the Frisians.
    • 1878, Philip Smith, The History of the Christian Church During the First Ten Centuries, page 519:
      Devoting himself to labour among the heathen, [Winfrid] crossed to Frisia, in 716; […]
  3. (exonym) Fryslân, a province of the Netherlands. Also referred to as Friesland (using the Dutch vernacular endonym) and West Frisia.
    • 1913, Municipal Journal, Public Works Engineer and Contractors' Guide, Volume 22, page 1166:
      The population of the Province of Frisia, which is divided into eleven urban and thirty rural communes, is of a people of a distinct national character, who have never known feudalism and who attach a high importance to their independence and personal value, hard-working, and of a serious and grave character, with little sentiment for the past.
    • 2005, Carl Skutsch, Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities, Routledge, →ISBN, page 470:
      The three areas populated by Frisians today are the Dutch province of Frisia (West-Frisia), the German landscape East-Frisia […] , and the German district North-Frisia […] .
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Translations

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Italian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin Frisia.

Proper noun

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Frisia f

  1. Friesland (a province of the Netherlands)

Latin

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Etymology

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From Frīsiī (“the Frisians”).

Proper noun

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Frīsia f sg (genitive Frīsiae); first declension

  1. Friesland (a region of Western Europe, straddling the Netherlands and Germany)

Declension

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First-declension noun, singular only.

singular
nominative Frīsia
genitive Frīsiae
dative Frīsiae
accusative Frīsiam
ablative Frīsiā
vocative Frīsia

Descendants

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  • Catalan: Frísia
  • French: Frise
  • Italian: Frisia
  • Portuguese: Frísia
  • Spanish: Frisia

Spanish

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Etymology

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From Latin Frīsia.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfɾisja/ [ˈfɾi.sja]
  • Rhymes: -isja
  • Syllabification: Fri‧sia

Proper noun

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Frisia f

  1. Friesland (a province of the Netherlands)
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Further reading

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