Dacia

See also: dacia, dácia, Dácia, and Dàcia

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Dacia, from Ancient Greek Δάοι (Dáoi), Δάκοι (Dákoi).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdeɪsɪə/, /ˈdeɪʃə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdeɪʃə/

Proper noun

Dacia

2. An ancient region and former kingdom located in the area now known as Romania. The Dacian kingdom was conquered by the Romans and later named Romania after them.
3. An automobile company based in Romania, Dacia.

Derived terms

• Dacian

Translations

ancient kingdom and Roman province

• Arabic: دَاقِيَة f (dāqiya)
• Armenian: Դակիա (Dakia)
• Belarusian: Да́кія f (Dákija)
• Breton: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: Да́кия f (Dákija)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: Dàcia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 達基亞／达基亚 (Dájīyà)

• Czech: Dácie
• Danish: Dakien
• Dutch: Dacië
• Esperanto: Dakio
• Estonian: Daakia (et)
• Finnish: Daakia
• French: Dacie (fr) f
• Galician: Dacia f
• Georgian: დაკია (daḳia)
• German: Dacien n
• Greek: Δακία (el) (Dakía)

  Ancient: Δακία (Dakía)

• Hawaiian: Dakia
• Hebrew: דאקיה
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: Dacia (hu)
• Irish: an Dáicia f
• Italian: Dacia f
• Japanese: ダキア (Dakia)
• Korean: 다키아 (Dakia)
• Ladin: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: Dāķija, Dākija f
• Lithuanian: Dakija f
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Dakia

• Occitan: please add this translation if you can
• Parthian: 𐭃𐭀𐭊𐭉𐭀 𐭇𐭔𐭕𐭓 (dʾkyʾ ḥštr /⁠Dākyā xšahr⁠/)
• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Piedmontese: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: Dacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: Dácia
• Romanian: Dacia (ro) f
• Russian: Да́кия f (Dákija)
• Scottish Gaelic: please add this translation if you can
• Slovak: Dácia f
• Spanish: Dacia (es) f
• Swedish: Dakien
• Telugu: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: Daçya
• Ukrainian: Да́кія f (Dákija)
• Venetan: please add this translation if you can
• Volapük: Dazän (vo)
• West Frisian: Daasje

automobile

• Bulgarian: Да́чия f (Dáčija)

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈdaː.ki.a/, [ˈd̪äːkiä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈda.t͡ʃi.a/, [ˈd̪äːt͡ʃiä]

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek Δάοι (Dáoi), Δάκοι (Dákoi), of long disputed origin and meaning; see Dacians. Some writers used the tribe name Getae to describe them.

Proper noun

Dācia f sg (genitive Dāciae); first declension

1. Dacia (an ancient region and former kingdom located in the area now known as Romania)
2. (obsolete) the region formerly held by Dacia: Wallachia or Romania
   • 1511, Bernardus Sylvanus ed., Jacobus Angelus's translation of Ptolemy as Liber Geographica, Bk VIII:

     In nona Tabula[:] Iaziges metanastae[,] Dacia Vulachia[,] Mysia superior: Seruia[,] Mysia inferior Bosna[,] Tratia[,] Chersonesus.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Dācia
genitive	Dāciae
dative	Dāciae
accusative	Dāciam
ablative	Dāciā
vocative	Dācia

Derived terms

• dācicus
• Dācus

Etymology 2

Same as 1, used instead of Dania because of the similar sound.

Proper noun

Dācia f sg (genitive Dāciae); first declension

1. Denmark (a country in Northern Europe)
2. a former ecclesiastical province covering the Nordic region

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Dācia
genitive	Dāciae
dative	Dāciae
accusative	Dāciam
ablative	Dāciā
vocative	Dācia

Further reading

• Strabo & 20 AD, VII 3,12

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Dacia, from Ancient Greek Δάοι (Dáoi), Δάκοι (Dákoi).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdat͡ʃi.a/

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Dacia f

1. (historical) Dacia (an ancient region and former kingdom located in the area now known as Romania)

Declension

gender f	uncountable
Nom/Acc	Dacia
Gen/Dat	Daciei

Related terms

• dac

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈdaθja/ [ˈd̪a.θja]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈdasja/ [ˈd̪a.sja]
• Rhymes: -aθja
• Rhymes: -asja
• Syllabification: Da‧cia

Proper noun

Dacia f

1. (historical) Dacia (an ancient region and former kingdom located in the area now known as Romania)

Related terms

• dacio