Pennsylvania
See also: Pennsylvânia
English
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Penn (“William Penn”) + sylvan (“woods”) + -ia (“land”). On March 4, 1681, Charles II of England granted a land tract to William Penn for the area that now includes Pennsylvania. Penn then founded a colony there as a place of religious freedom for Quakers, and named it for the Latin sylva, silva (“meaning "wood"”), thus "Pennsylvania" (Penn's woods). Some propose that the "Penn" is derived from William's more respected father, also named William Penn.[en 1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Pennsylvania
- A state of the United States. Capital: Harrisburg; largest city: Philadelphia.
- (historical) A former colony of England, from 1681 to 1707, and of Great Britain, from 1707 to 1776, which grew progressively larger before becoming the present state.
- The first, and historically largest, now defunct US railroad, a hallmark of the industrial age.
- An unincorporated community in Mobile County, Alabama, United States.
- A suburb of Exeter, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX9294).
- A hamlet in Cold Ashton parish, South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST7473).
Synonyms
[edit]- (US state): PA
- The Keystone State
Derived terms
[edit]Derived terms
Related terms
[edit]Related terms
- Pittsylvania
- Spotsylvania
- Transylvania
- Sylvania
- sylvan (see for more terms)
Translations
[edit]US state
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railroad
See also
[edit]| States: Alabama · Alaska · Arizona · Arkansas · California · Colorado · Connecticut · Delaware · Florida · Georgia · Hawaii · Idaho · Illinois · Indiana · Iowa · Kansas · Kentucky · Louisiana · Maine · Maryland · Massachusetts · Michigan · Minnesota · Mississippi · Missouri · Montana · Nebraska · Nevada · New Hampshire · New Jersey · New Mexico · New York · North Carolina · North Dakota · Ohio · Oklahoma · Oregon · Pennsylvania · Rhode Island · South Carolina · South Dakota · Tennessee · Texas · Utah · Vermont · Virginia · Washington · West Virginia · Wisconsin · Wyoming |
| Federal district: Washington, D.C. |
| Territories: American Samoa · Guam · Northern Mariana Islands · Puerto Rico · United States minor outlying islands · United States Virgin Islands |
References
[edit]- ^ “10 U.S. State Name Spellings and Origins”, in Wordplay[1], Merriam-Webster, retrieved 2024-08-31
Danish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English Pennsylvania.
Proper noun
[edit]Pennsylvania (genitive Pennsylvanias)
- Pennsylvania (a state of the United States)
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English Pennsylvania.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈpensilʋei̯niɑ/, [ˈpe̞ns̠ilˌʋe̞i̯niɑ̝]
- IPA(key): /ˈpensylʋei̯niɑ/, [ˈpe̞ns̠ylˌʋe̞i̯niɑ̝]
- Rhymes: -einiɑ
Proper noun
[edit]Pennsylvania
- Pennsylvania (a state of the United States)
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of Pennsylvania (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | Pennsylvania | — | |
| genitive | Pennsylvanian | — | |
| partitive | Pennsylvaniaa | — | |
| illative | Pennsylvaniaan | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Pennsylvania | — | |
| accusative | nom. | Pennsylvania | — |
| gen. | Pennsylvanian | ||
| genitive | Pennsylvanian | — | |
| partitive | Pennsylvaniaa | — | |
| inessive | Pennsylvaniassa | — | |
| elative | Pennsylvaniasta | — | |
| illative | Pennsylvaniaan | — | |
| adessive | Pennsylvanialla | — | |
| ablative | Pennsylvanialta | — | |
| allative | Pennsylvanialle | — | |
| essive | Pennsylvaniana | — | |
| translative | Pennsylvaniaksi | — | |
| abessive | Pennsylvaniatta | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
German
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- Pennsylvanien (dated to archaic)
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Pennsylvania n (proper noun, genitive Pennsylvanias or (optionally with an article) Pennsylvania)
- Pennsylvania (a state of the United States)
Related terms
[edit]Italian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English Pennsylvania.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Pennsylvania f
- Pennsylvania (a state of the United States)
References
[edit]- ^ Pennsylvania in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Portuguese
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Pennsylvania f
- Alternative spelling of Pensilvânia
Categories:
- English compound terms
- English terms suffixed with -ia
- English terms derived from Latin
- English 5-syllable words
- English 4-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/eɪniə
- Rhymes:English/eɪniə/5 syllables
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Pennsylvania, USA
- en:States of the United States
- en:Places in the United States
- English terms with historical senses
- en:Historical dependent territories
- en:Places in England
- en:Unincorporated communities in Alabama, USA
- en:Unincorporated communities in the United States
- en:Places in Alabama, USA
- en:Suburbs in Devon, England
- en:Places in Devon, England
- en:Villages in Gloucestershire, England
- en:Villages in England
- en:Places in Gloucestershire, England
- English eponyms
- Danish terms borrowed from English
- Danish terms derived from English
- Danish lemmas
- Danish proper nouns
- da:Pennsylvania, USA
- da:States of the United States
- da:Places in the United States
- Finnish terms borrowed from English
- Finnish terms derived from English
- Finnish 5-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/einiɑ
- Rhymes:Finnish/einiɑ/5 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- fi:Pennsylvania, USA
- fi:States of the United States
- fi:Places in the United States
- Finnish kala-type nominals
- Finnish uncountable nouns
- German 4-syllable words
- German terms with IPA pronunciation
- German terms with audio pronunciation
- German lemmas
- German proper nouns
- German neuter nouns
- de:Pennsylvania, USA
- de:States of the United States
- de:Places in the United States
- Italian terms borrowed from English
- Italian terms derived from English
- Italian 4-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/anja
- Rhymes:Italian/anja/4 syllables
- Rhymes:Italian/ɛnja
- Rhymes:Italian/ɛnja/4 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian proper nouns
- Italian terms spelled with Y
- Italian feminine nouns
- it:Pennsylvania, USA
- it:States of the United States
- it:Places in the United States
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese proper nouns
- Portuguese terms spelled with Y
- Portuguese feminine nouns