Britannia

Etymology
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Proper noun

 * 1) A female personification of Britain or the United Kingdom.
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 * Rule, Britannia! Britannia rule the waves / Britons never, never shall be slaves
 * 1)  A province of the Roman Empire covering most of the island of Britain.
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Proper noun

 * 1)  United Kingdom, Great Britain, Britain used to refer to the state of United Kingdom or its largest island consisting of England, Scotland and Wales
 * 2) Britain Roman province
 * 3) Britannia female personification of Britain

Etymology
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Proper noun

 * 1)  Great Britain, Britain
 * 2) Britain Roman province
 * 3)  female personification of Britain
 * 1)  female personification of Britain

Etymology
Attested from the 1st century, directly or from , (in ), earlier  or , used by  (4th century ) of the entire archipelago now known as the British Isles.

The Ancient Greek name is ultimately from a ethnonym, reconstructed as early , perhaps from a , , whence 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, , from.

Pronunciation

 * Note: only found in hexameters with a short first syllable, except for a single instance of /britt-/ in Lucretius. Sergius on Donatus testifies to /a:n/ rather than /ann/. Romance descendants seem to consistently point to /tt/.
 * Note: only found in hexameters with a short first syllable, except for a single instance of /britt-/ in Lucretius. Sergius on Donatus testifies to /a:n/ rather than /ann/. Romance descendants seem to consistently point to /tt/.

Usage notes

 * In medieval Welsh sources before the 13th century, Britannia was used both in an expansive sense to refer to the island of Britain and in a restricted sense to refer to Wales, i.e. the remaining land of the Britons. From the 12th century the restricted sense of the term was increasingly displaced by, a name derived from Old English, and later by.