# provincia
## Aragonese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin prōvincia.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɾoˈbinθja/
* Rhymes: -inθja
* Syllabification: pro‧vin‧cia

### Noun

provincia f
* province

### Further reading

* Diccionario ortografico de l'aragonés (Seguntes la PO de l'EFA)

## Asturian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin prōvincia.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɾoˈbinθja/ [pɾoˈβ̞ĩn̟.θja]
* Rhymes: -inθja
* Syllabification: pro‧vin‧cia

### Noun

provincia f (plural provincies)
* province

### Further reading

* Academia de la Llingua Asturiana (2000). Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana (1ª edición). →ISBN. on-line version.

## Chavacano
### Etymology

Inherited from Spanish provincia, from Latin prōvincia.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɾoˈbinsja/, [pɾoˈbĩn.ʃa]
* Rhymes: -insja
* Hyphenation: pro‧vin‧cia

### Noun

provincia (plural provincias)
* province

## Galician
### Alternative forms

* província (reintegrationist)

### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin prōvincia.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɾoˈbinθja/ [pɾoˈβ̞in̪.θjɐ]
* IPA: (standard) /pɾoˈbinθja/ [pɾoˈβ̞in̪.θjɐ]
* IPA: (seseo) /pɾoˈbinsja/ [pɾoˈβ̞in.sjɐ]
* Rhymes: -inθja
* Rhymes: -inθja
* Rhymes: -insja
* Hyphenation: pro‧vin‧cia

### Noun

provincia f (plural provincias)
* province

#### Related terms

* provincial

### Further reading

* “provincia”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

## Interlingua
### Noun

provincia (plural provincias)
* province

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin prōvincia.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /proˈvin.t͡ʃa/
* Audio (male voice):(file)
* Rhymes: -intʃa
* Hyphenation: pro‧vìn‧cia

### Noun

provincia f (plural province or provincie)
* province
* district
* country

### Further reading

* provincia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* prōvintia (Early Medieval, hypercorrection)

### Etymology

Seemingly from a Proto-Italic *prōwinkjō (“load, burden, charge”) corresponding to prō- and vinciō.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /proːˈu̯in.ki.a/, [proːˈu̯ɪŋkiä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /proˈvin.t͡ʃi.a/, [proˈvin̠ʲt͡ʃiä]

### Noun

prōvincia f (genitive prōvinciae); first declension
* province
    utramque provinciam remittoI return both provinces
* office, duty, command

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* prōvinciālis
* prōvinciātim

#### Descendants

* Lombard: proìnsa
* → Asturian: provincia
* → Catalan: província
* → Italian: provincia
* → Sicilian: pruvincia
* → Middle Dutch: provincie
** Dutch: provincie
*** Afrikaans: provinsie
*** → Malay: provinsi
**** Indonesian: provinsi, propinsi (nonstandard)
**** → Acehnese: propinsi
** Limburgish: provinsje
* → Middle High German: provincie
** German: Provinz
*** → Danish: provins
*** → Norwegian: provins
*** → Swedish: provins
** Yiddish: פּראָווינץ (provints)
* → Old French: province, provinz, pruvince
** Middle French: province
*** French: province
*** → Middle English: provynce, provynse, province, provyns
**** English: province
***** Tok Pisin: provins
**** Scots: province
** Norman: provînche, provinche (continental Norman)
* → Polish: prowincja
** → Russian: провинция (provincija)
* Old Galician-Portuguese: provincia
** Galician: provincia
* → Portuguese: província
* → Romanian: provincie
* → Spanish: provincia
** > Chavacano: provincia (inherited)
** → Basque: probintzia
** → Bikol Central: probinsya
** → Cebuano: probinsiya
** → Hiligaynon: probinsya
** → Ilocano: probinsia
** → Kapampangan: probinsia
** → Tagalog: probinsiya
* → Sardinian: provìntzia
region in southern France:
* Old Occitan: Proensa
** Catalan: Provença
** Occitan: Provença, Prouvènço (Mistralian)
*** → French: Provence
**** → English: Provence
**** → German: Provence
**** → Russian: Прованс (Provans)
*** → Italian: Provenza
* Old Galician-Portuguese: Proença
** Galician: Provenza
** Portuguese: Provença

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “vinciō, -īre (> Derivatives > prōvincia)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 679

### Further reading

* “provincia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “provincia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* "provincia", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* provincia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to entrust some one with an official duty, a province: provinciam alicui decernere, mandare to draw lots for the provinces: provincias sortiri (Liv. 38. 35) (the magistrates) arrange among themselves the administration of the provinces, the official spheres of duty: provincias inter se comparant to set out for one's province: in provinciam proficisci (Liv. 38. 35) to exchange provinces: provincias permutare to manage, govern a province: provinciam administrare, obtinere to visit, traverse a province: provinciam obire to make Asia into a Roman province: Asiam in provinciae formam (in provinciam) redigere (B. G. 1. 45)
* “provincia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “provincia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
* “provincia”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
* Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 810

## Piedmontese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pruˈviŋt͡ʃa/

### Noun

provincia f (plural provincie)
* province
    Synonym: provinsa

#### Related terms

* provincial

## Portuguese
### Noun

provincia f (plural provincias)
* Obsolete spelling of província.

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin prōvincia.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Spain) /pɾoˈbinθja/ [pɾoˈβ̞ĩn̟.θja]
* IPA: (Latin America, Philippines) /pɾoˈbinsja/ [pɾoˈβ̞ĩn.sja]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -inθja
* Rhymes: -insja
* Syllabification: pro‧vin‧cia

### Noun

provincia f (plural provincias)
* province

#### Related terms

* provincial
* provinciano

#### Descendants

* > Chavacano: provincia (inherited)
* → Basque: probintzia
* → Bikol Central: probinsya
* → Cebuano: probinsiya
* → Hiligaynon: probinsya
* → Ilocano: probinsia
* → Kapampangan: probinsia
* → Tagalog: probinsiya

### Further reading

* “provincia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10