Gallia

Gallia f

1. France (a country in Western Europe)

From Latin Gallia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑlːiɑ/, [ˈɡɑ̝lːiɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑlːiɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Gal‧li‧a

Gallia

1. Gaul (ancient Roman region)

• gallialainen

Borrowed from Latin Gallia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡal.lja/
• Rhymes: -allja
• Hyphenation: Gàl‧lia

Gallia f

1. Gaul (a Roman-era region roughly corresponding to modern France and Belgium)

• gallico
• gallo

• algali, gallai, gialla

From gallus (“a Gaul”) +‎ -ia. The medieval application to Wales is by conflation.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡal.li.a/, [ˈɡälːʲiä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡal.li.a/, [ˈɡälːiä]

Gallia f (genitive Galliae); first declension

1. (Classical Latin) the lands of the Gauls; various tribes primarily inhabiting what is now modern-day France and Belgium
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.1:

     Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres.

     Gaul is a whole divided into three parts.

2. (Medieval Latin) Alternative spelling of Wallia (“Wales”)
3. (New Latin) France (a country in Western Europe)

First-declension noun, with locative.

• “Gallia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Gallia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “Gallia”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC