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Alwernia

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See also: Alwernią

Polish

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kościół w Alwerni

Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin Alverna (whence Italian La Verna); the town grew around a monastery founded in the early 17th century, which was named after the mountain in Tuscany associated with Saint Francis of Assisi.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /alˈvɛr.ɲja/
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  • Rhymes: -ɛrɲja
  • Syllabification: Al‧wern‧ia

Proper noun

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Alwernia f

  1. Alwernia (a town in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland)

Declension

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less common:

Derived terms

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adjective
nouns

References

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  1. ^ Kazimierz Rymut, Urszula Bijak, Barbara Czopek-Kopciuch, editors (1996), “Alwernia”, in Nazwy miejscowe Polski: historia, pochodzenie, zmiany (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków: Wydawnictwo Instytutu Języka Polskiego PAN, →ISBN, page 18

Further reading

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