Gallia Belgica

English

Etymology

From Latin Gallia Belgica.

Proper noun

Gallica Belgica (uncountable)

1. a province of the Roman Empire located in what is now southern France.

Latin

The region within the Roman Empire

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈɡal.li.a ˈbel.ɡi.ka/, [ˈɡälːʲiä ˈbɛɫ̪ɡɪkä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡal.li.a ˈbel.d͡ʒi.ka/, [ˈɡälːiä ˈbɛl̠ʲd͡ʒikä]

Proper noun

Gallia Belgica f sg (genitive Galliae Belgicae); first declension

1. Roman province in northern Gaul, in modern-day northern France, Belgium and Luxembourg

Declension

First-declension noun with a first-declension adjective, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Gallia Belgica
genitive	Galliae Belgicae
dative	Galliae Belgicae
accusative	Galliam Belgicam
ablative	Galliā Belgicā
vocative	Gallia Belgica

Descendants

• → Spanish: Galia Bélgica

References

• “Belgica Belgae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Belgica”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Gallia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.