Frisia
English
Proper noun
Frisia
- (historical) A coastal region along the southeastern corner of the North Sea in what today is mostly a large part of the Netherlands, including present-day Friesland, and smaller parts of northern Germany, including present-day Friesland. It is the traditional homeland of the Frisians.
- (Netherlands, exonym) Friesland, a province of the Netherlands.
- Synonym: West Frisia
- 1913, Municipal Journal, Public Works Engineer and Contractors' Guide, Volume 22, page 1166:
- The population of the Province of Frisia, which is divided into eleven urban and thirty rural communes, is of a people of a distinct national character, who have never known feudalism and who attach a high importance to their independence and personal value, hard-working, and of a serious and grave character, with little sentiment for the past.
Italian
Latin
Etymology
From Frīsiī (“the Frisians”).
Declension
First-declension noun, singular only.
| Case | Singular |
|---|---|
| Nominative | Frīsia |
| Genitive | Frīsiae |
| Dative | Frīsiae |
| Accusative | Frīsiam |
| Ablative | Frīsiā |
| Vocative | Frīsia |
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfɾisja/ [ˈfɾi.sja]
- Rhymes: -isja
- Syllabification: Fri‧sia
Further reading
- “Frisia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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