Ravenna

Borrowed from Italian Ravenna, from Latin Ravenna.

Ravenna

1. A province in the region of Emilia-Romagna, in northern Italy.
2. A coastal city, the present-day capital of the province of Ravenna.

   Ravenna served as the capital city of the Western Roman Empire from 402 until the latter's collapse in 476; thereafter it was the capital of the Ostrogothic Kingdom and then of the Byzantine Exarchate of Ravenna until the last exarch was executed by the Lombards in 751.

3. A city, the county seat of Portage County, Ohio, United States, named after the Italian city.

• Ravenna grass

• (adj.): Ravennate, Ravennese, Ravennan
• (demonym): Ravennese, Ravennan, Ravennate

Ravenna f

1. Ravenna (a province of Italy)
2. Ravenna (a city in Italy)

• ravennès

From Latin Ravenna, possibly of Etruscan origin.

• IPA^(key): /raˈven.na/

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• Rhymes: -enna
• Hyphenation: Ra‧vén‧na

Ravenna f

1. Ravenna (a province of Italy)
2. Ravenna (a city in Italy)

• ravennate

Possibly of Etruscan origin.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /raˈu̯en.na/, [räˈu̯ɛnːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /raˈven.na/, [räˈvɛnːä]

Ravenna f sg (genitive Ravennae); first declension

1. Ravenna (a city in Italy)

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• Ravennās
• Ravennātēs
• Ravennātēnsis

• → Ancient Greek: Ῥᾰ́βεννᾰ (Rhábenna)
• Italian: Ravenna
  • → English: Ravenna
  • → French: Ravenne

• “Ravenna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Ravenna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.