Carinthia

Ultimately from Latin Carantania. Possibly of Celtic origin, compare Proto-Celtic *karants (“friend”). The Latin toponym was also borrowed into Slavic as Proto-Slavic *korǫtanъ (with an adjective Proto-Slavic *korǫtьskъ), compare Czech Korutany and Slovene Koroška (“Carinthia”).

• IPA^(key): /kəˈɹɪnθiə/[1]
• Hyphenation: Ca‧rin‧thia
• Rhymes: -ɪnθiə

Carinthia

1. A federal state of modern Austria, with its capital in Klagenfurt.
2. A region in modern Slovenia.
3. (historical) A region of the Holy Roman and Austrian empires.
   • 1759, George Sale et al., “The Modern Part of an Universal History”, in History of the German Empire, volume XXIX, page 2:

     Since the reign of Charlemagne, this country is divided into High and Low Germany: the firſt, towards the ſouth, comprehending the Palatinate of the Rhine, Franconia, Suabia, Bavaria, Bohemia, Moravia, Auſtria, Carinthia, Carniola, Stiria, Tyrol, the Swiſs, and the Griſons...

• (region in Slovenia): Slovenian Carinthia

• (states of Austria) state of Austria; Burgenland, Carinthia, Lower Austria, Upper Austria, Salzburg, Styria, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Vienna ^{(Category: en:States of Austria)}

• Carinthian

• Carinthia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Carinthia f

1. Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) of Caríntia.