Taivania
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Ultimately from the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 臺灣／台湾 (Táiwān) + -ia (“forming place names”), a transcription of a local tribe's endonym around the area of Anping, possibly Siraya taywan (“place of the people”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ta.iˈu̯a.ni.a/, [t̪äiˈu̯äniä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ta.iˈva.ni.a/, [t̪äiˈväːniä]
Proper noun[edit]
Taivania f sg (genitive Taivaniae); first declension
- (New Latin) Synonym of Formosa, Taiwan (an island in East Asia)
- (New Latin) Taiwan (a country in East Asia)
Declension[edit]
First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
| Case | Singular |
|---|---|
| Nominative | Taivania |
| Genitive | Taivaniae |
| Dative | Taivaniae |
| Accusative | Taivaniam |
| Ablative | Taivaniā |
| Vocative | Taivania |
| Locative | Taivaniae |
Synonyms[edit]
- (country in East Asia): Res Publica Sinarum, Formosa; Serica (disputed)
Categories:
- Latin terms derived from Mandarin
- Latin terms derived from Chinese
- Latin terms derived from Siraya
- Latin 5-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin proper nouns
- Latin first declension nouns
- Latin feminine nouns in the first declension
- Latin feminine nouns
- New Latin
- la:Islands
- la:Taiwan
- la:Countries in Asia
- la:Countries
- Latin terms suffixed with -ia