Palaestina

See also: Palästina and Palæstina

Latin

Palaestīna:
- (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pa.ɫae̯sˈtiː.na]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [pa.lesˈtiː.na]
Palaestīnā:
- (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pa.ɫae̯sˈtiː.naː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [pa.lesˈtiː.na]

From Ancient Greek Παλαιστίνη (Palaistínē), from Hebrew פְּלֶשֶׁת (p'léshet, “Philistia, land of the Philistines”).

Palaestīna f sg (genitive Palaestīnae); first declension

Palestine (a province of the Roman Empire in Levant, Asia)
- Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
  Aegyptus inferior ab oriente habet Palaestīnam, ab occasū Libyam, ab septentriōne mare Nōstrum...
  Lower Egypt has Palestine to its east, Libya to its west, the Mediterranean to its north...
(New Latin) Palestine (a country in Western Asia)

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

→ Translingual: Palaestina
Asturian: Palestina
Catalan: Palestina
→ Dutch: Palestina
- → Indonesian: Palestina
→ Finnish: Palestiina
French: Palestine
→ Hebrew: פלשתינה (Palestina)
→ Irish: Palaistín
→ Icelandic: Palestína
Italian: Palestina
→ Japanese: パレスチナ (Paresuchina)
→ Old English: Palestina
- Middle English: Palestyne
  - English: Palestine (see there for further descendants)
→ Old Galician-Portuguese: Palestina
- Fala: Palestina
- Galician: Palestina
- Portuguese: Palestina
  - → Hunsrik: Palëstina
→ Old Spanish: Palestina
- Spanish: Palestina
  - → Tagalog: Palestina
Romanian: Palestina
Sicilian: Palistina
→ Ukrainian: Палестина (Palestyna)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Palaestīna

Palaestīnā

“Palaestina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“Palaestina”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.