Apulia

See also: Apúlia

English

Etymology

From Latin Āpūlia.

Proper noun

Apulia

  1. A peninsula and administrative region in southern Italy.

Synonyms

Meronyms

Derived terms

Translations

See also

Latin

Alternative forms

  • Appūlia

Etymology

Unknown. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep- (water).[1]

Pronunciation

Note: although the more modern dictionaries mark the /u/ as short, it's in fact only attested as long; on the other hand, it's always short in the endonym Āpulus.

Proper noun

Āpūlia f sg (genitive Āpūliae); first declension

  1. A former province in lower Italy, to the north of Calabria and east of Samnium, now Italian Puglia
  2. (New Latin) Apulia (a peninsula and administrative region in southern Italy)

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Āpūlia
Genitive Āpūliae
Dative Āpūliae
Accusative Āpūliam
Ablative Āpūliā
Vocative Āpūlia

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Italian: Puglia

References

Further reading

  • Apulia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Apulia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
  • Apulia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  1. Pokorny, Julius (1959) “ap-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 50-51

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Āpūlia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aˈpu.lja/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ulja
  • Syllabification: A‧pu‧lia

Proper noun

Apulia f

  1. Apulia (a peninsula and administrative region in southern Italy)

Declension

Further reading

  • Apulia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Proper noun

Apulia f

  1. Apulia (a peninsula and administrative region in southern Italy)
    Synonym: Pulla
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