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Novogrodia Magna

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Latin

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Etymology

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Calque of Polish Nowogród Wielki (Great Novgorod).

Proper noun

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Novogrodia Magna f sg (genitive Novogrodiae Magnae); first declension

  1. Veliky Novgorod (a city in Novgorod Oblast, Russia)
    • 1578, Alexander Guagnini, Sarmatiae Europeae descriptio, quae Regnum Poloniae, Lituaniam, Samogitiam, Russiam, Masouiam, Prussiam, Pomeraniam, Liuoniam, et Moschouiae, Tartariaeque partem complectitur [Description of European Sarmatia, Which Encompasses the Kingdom of Poland, Lithuania, Samogitia, Russia, Mazovia, Prussia, Pomerania, Livonia, Muscovy, and Part of Tartary], Omnium regionum, Moschouiae Monarchae subiectarum, Tartarorumque Campestrium, Arcium, Ciuitatum praecipuarum, Morum denique gentis, Religionis, et consuetudinis vitae sufficiens, et vera descriptio [A sufficient and true description of all the regions subject to the monarch of Muscovy, the fields of the Tartars, the fortresses, particular cities, and then the customs of the people, the religion, and habits of life], folio 8v:
      NOuogrodiæ magnæ Principatus amplißimus olim, ex totius Rußiæ Ducatibus erat.
      The Principality of Veliky Novgorod was once the most esteemed of the duchies of the whole of Rus'.

Declension

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

singular
nominative Novogrodia Magna
genitive Novogrodiae Magnae
dative Novogrodiae Magnae
accusative Novogrodiam Magnam
ablative Novogrodiā Magnā
vocative Novogrodia Magna