romania
/ɹoʊˈmeɪ.ni.ə/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.78 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
4
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Synonym of Byzantine Empire, also used for its former territories.
Example Sentences
- "There is strong resistance in much of Europe to fracking, the practice of forcing liquid and sand into wells to release trapped oil and gas. France has a ban on fracking, Germany has imposed a moratorium, and opposition has cropped up and sometimes delayed shale exploration in Eastern European countries like Romania and Poland."
- "There is a significant coincidence of dates between several events: the splitting of the Paulician community in Rhomania in consequence of Séryios’s innovations; the breach between Séryios’s partisans and the East Roman Imperial Government, […]"
- "The Doge of Venice was honored with his full title of dominator of one-quarter and one-eighth of the whole Empire of Romania; and he was promised repossession of all the rights and properties that his people had held in Constantinople in the years of the Latin occupation."
- "In this letter the basileus informed the Pope that Béla III had attacked Serbia, since he was not content with his own country, “which he acquired with difficulties and with the help of the armies and the money of Rhomania [i.e. Byzantium]”."
- "The Fourth Crusade ended in 1204 with the Western or Latin conquest of Constantinople and signalled the beginning of a new era in the history of the Byzantine lands or Romania."
- "If the Constantinopolitan Byzantines regarded the Anatolian Turkic territories as lands temporarily lost from their indivisible universal Rhomania, the Turkoman rulers of the twelfth century considered Rhomania as being factually divided between several rulers."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɹoʊˈmeɪ.ni.ə/
- British English: /ɹəʊˈmeɪ.ni.ə/
Usage
Inflected Forms
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Phrases
Synonyms
Byzantine Empire
also used for its former territories