Romania

//ɹoʊˈmeɪ.ni.ə// name

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A country in Southeast Europe. Capital and largest city: Bucharest.

    "There is strong resistance in much of Europe to fracking, the practice of forcing liquid and sand into wells to release trapped oil and gas. France has a ban on fracking, Germany has imposed a moratorium, and opposition has cropped up and sometimes delayed shale exploration in Eastern European countries like Romania and Poland."

  2. 2
    The Latin or Romance-speaking areas of Europe, collectively. historical, literary
  3. 3
    Obsolete form of Romagna. alt-of, obsolete

    "In the end of Ianuarie, Borbon passed the Po with all his troupes, and directed his iourney towards Romania: […]"

  4. 4
    Synonym of Byzantine Empire, also used for its former territories. historical

    "There is a significant coincidence of dates between several events: the splitting of the Paulician community in Rhomania in consequence of Séryios’s innovations; the breach between Séryios’s partisans and the East Roman Imperial Government, […]"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Romanian român (“Romanian”) (in turn from Latin romanus (“Roman”)) + -ia. Doublet of Romagna.

Etymology 2

From Latin Rōmānia, from Byzantine Greek Ῥωμανία (Rhōmanía), itself from Latin rōmānus.

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