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pannonia

/pəˈnoʊ̯.ni.ə/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.91 in modern English

Syllables
Pan-no-ni-a
IPA
/pəˈnoʊ̯.ni.ə/
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
4
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A geographic region and former province of the Roman Empire in central-eastern Europe, existing as a single province from c. 9 AD to 107 AD and as multiple related provinces until 433 AD; located in modern western Hungary, western Slovakia, eastern Austria, northern Croatia, northwestern Serbia, northern Slovenia and northern Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pen-der. Illyriander. Latin Pannonialbor. English Pannonia Learned borrowing from Latin Pannonia, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pen- (“moist; wet; mud; swamp; water”), thus meaning (and ultimately related to) fen /fenland.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Regional Pronunciation

  • American English: /pəˈnoʊ̯.ni.ə/
  • British English: /pəˈnəʊ̯.niː.ə/

Derived Forms

Pannonian Pannonianism pannoniasaur Pannonic

Rhymes With

estonia macedonia ammonia catalonia patagonia babylonia snowdonia livonia franconia laconia sinfonia begonia

Questions

How do you pronounce pannonia?
The recorded pronunciation is /pəˈnoʊ̯.ni.ə/.
What does pannonia mean?
A geographic region and former province of the Roman Empire in central-eastern Europe, existing as a single province from c. 9 AD to 107 AD and as multiple related provinces until 433 AD; located in modern western Hungary, western Slovakia, eastern Austria, northern Croatia, northwestern Serbia, northern Slovenia and northern Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Where does pannonia come from?
It is traced to Proto-Indo-European.

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