Livonia

See also: livonia, livónia, livônia, Livónia, and Livônia

English

Etymology

From Latin Livonia, from Estonian liiv (“sand”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɪˈvoʊniə/

Proper noun

Livonia

1. (historical) A historical region in the Baltic, south of the Gulf of Finland, now divided and constituting southern Estonia and northern Latvia.
2. Any of various towns that share this name in the USA:
   1. A town in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana.

Derived terms

• Livonian

Translations

historical region

• Afrikaans: Lyfland, Liefland
• Arabic: ليفونيا f (lifunia)
• Armenian: Լիվոնիա (Livonia)
• Basque: Livonia
• Belarusian: Лівонія f (Livónija)
• Bulgarian: Ливония f (Livonija)
• Catalan: Livònia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 立窝尼亚 (zh) (Lìwōníyǎ), 利夫兰 (Lìfūlán)

• Czech: Livonsko (cs) n
• Danish: Livland
• Dutch: Lijfland (nl) n
• Esperanto: Livonio, Livlando
• Estonian: Liivimaa
• Finnish: Liivinmaa (fi)
• French: Livonie (fr) f
• Galician: Livonia f
• Georgian: ლივონია (livonia)
• German: Livland (de) n, Liefland n
• Greek: Λιβονία f (Livonía)

  Ancient Greek: Λιουονίᾱ f (Liouoníā)

• Hungarian: Livónia (hu)
• Icelandic: Lífland
• Italian: Livonia f
• Japanese: リヴォニア (Rivonia)
• Korean: 리보니아 (ribonia)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Lîvonya f

• Kyrgyz: Ливония (Livoniya)
• Latin: Livonia f
• Latvian: Livonija f
• Ligurian: Livonnia f
• Lithuanian: Livonija f
• Livonian: Līvõmō
• Marathi: लिव्होनिया (livhoniyā)
• Northern Sami: Livlánda
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Livland n

  Nynorsk: Livland n

• Polish: Inflanty (pl) nvir
• Portuguese:

  Brazilian: Livônia f

  European: Livónia f

• Romanian: Livonia f
• Russian: Лифля́ндия (ru) f (Lifljándija), Ливо́ния (ru) f (Livónija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Лѝво̄нија f

  Roman: Lìvōnija (sh) f

• Slovak: Livónsko n
• Slovene: Livonija f
• Spanish: Livonia f
• Swedish: Livland
• Turkish: Livonya
• Ukrainian: Ліво́нія f (Livónija)
• Uzbek:

  Cyrillic: Ливония (Livoniya)

  Roman: Livoniya

• West Frisian: Lyflân

Further reading

• Livonia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Proper noun

Livonia f

1. Livonia (historical region)

Anagrams

• involai, olivina, vialoni, violina

Latin

Proper noun

Livonia f sg (genitive Livoniae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Livonia (historical region in the Baltic)

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Livonia
genitive	Livoniae
dative	Livoniae
accusative	Livoniam
ablative	Livoniā
vocative	Livonia

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /liˈbonja/ [liˈβ̞o.nja]
• Rhymes: -onja
• Syllabification: Li‧vo‧nia

Proper noun

Livonia f

1. Livonia (historical region)

Related terms

• livonio