Belgica

Belgica

1. Belgium (a country in Western Europe that has borders with the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg and France)

From Latin Belgica. Cognates include French Belgique and Spanish Bélgica.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeld͡ʒika/

Belgica f

1. Belgium (a country in Western Europe that has borders with the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg and France)

• Belgiu, Belghju

From Belgicus/belgicus, short for Gallia Belgica (“Belgic Gaul”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbel.ɡi.ka/, [ˈbɛɫ̪ɡɪkä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbel.d͡ʒi.ka/, [ˈbɛl̠ʲd͡ʒikä]

Belgica f sg (genitive Belgicae); first declension

1. Belgium (a country in Western Europe that has borders with the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg and France)

First-declension noun, singular only.

• Gallia Belgica

• Belgium

• Gallia

• Gallia Lugdunensis

• Albanian: Belgjikë
• Arabic: بِلْجِيكَا (biljīkā)
• Aragonese: Belchica
• Asturian: Bélxica
• Azerbaijani: Belçika
• Basque: Belgika
• Catalan: Bèlgica
• Corsican: Belgica
• Crimean Tatar: Belçika
• Franco-Provençal: Bèlg·ique
• French: Belgique
  • → Haitian Creole: Bèljik
  • → Kabyle: Biljik
  • → Khmer: បែលហ្ស៊ិក (baelzɨk)
  • → Lao: ແບນຊິກ (bǣn sik)
  • → Lojban: Belgique
  • → Norman: Belgique
  • → Persian: بلژیک (belžik)
  • → Wolof: Beljik
• Galician: Bélxica
• Interlingua: Belgica
• Ladino: Beljika
• Lingala: Bɛ́ljika
• Malagasy: Belzika
• Portuguese:
  • → Papiamentu: Bélgika
  • → Tetum: Béljika
• Spanish: Bélgica
  • → Cebuano: Belhika
  • → Quechua: Bilhika
  • → Tagalog: Belhika
  • → Waray-Waray: Belhika
• Turkish: Belçika
• Walloon: Beldjike
• Zazaki: Belçıka

• (countries of Europe) nātiō Eurōpae; Albānia, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaigiania, Belgica, Belorussia, Bosnia et Herzegovīna, Britannia, Bulgaria, Croātia, Cyprus, Czechia, Dānia, Estonia, Finnia, Francia, Geōrgia, Germānia, Graecia, Helvētia, Hī̆bernia, Hispānia, Hungaria, Īslandia, Ī̆talia, Kazachstania, Lettonia, Lichtenstēnum, Lītuānia, Lūsītānia, Luxemburgum, Macedonia Septentriōnālis, Melita, Moldavia, Monoecus, Mōns Niger, Nederlandia, Norvegia, Polonia, Rōmānia, Russia, Sānctus Marīnus, Serbia, Slovācia, Slovēnia, Suecia, Turcia, Ū̆crāīna, Vātī̆cānus ^{(Category: la:Countries in Europe)}

Belgica f

1. Belgium (a country in Western Europe that has borders with the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg and France)

Belgica f

1. Obsolete spelling of Bélgica
   • 1914, David Lloyd George, A Guerra Europea, Harrison and Sons, page 2:

     É preciso ter presente que nessa occasião o maior perigo para a Belgica provinha da França e não da Allemanha.

     At that time, bear in mind, the greatest danger to Belgium came from France and not from Germany.