Iemena

Latin

Alternative forms

• Jemena, Iemana, Jemana, Iamana, Jamana, Iemenia, Jemenia

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈi̯e.me.na/, [ˈi̯ɛmɛnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈje.me.na/, [ˈjɛːmenä]

Proper noun

Iemena f sg (genitive Iemenae); first declension

1. Yemen (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East)
   • 1728, Giuseppe Simone Assemani, Bibliotheca orientalis Clementino-Vaticana. […] Tomi Tertii Pars Secunda. De Syris Nestorianis, Rome, page DLXXVI:

     Hic relictis sedibus, in Jamanam seù Arabiam felicem secessit, ubi ejus posteri inter Jamanitas adscripti sunt.

     Having left these steads, we went back to Happy Arabia, where his children were counted Yemenites.

   • 1832, Antun Rožić, Compendium totius orbis geographicum secundum novissimam provinciarum divisionem, volume 2, Varaždin, page 32:

     Potentissimus Princeps Arabiae est Imam Iemeniae cum titulo Califi; hunc sequitur Magnus Emirus.

     The mightiest chieftain of Arabia is the Imam of Yemen with the title of a Khalif; he is followed by the Great Emir.

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Iemena
genitive	Iemenae
dative	Iemenae
accusative	Iemenam
ablative	Iemenā
vocative	Iemena