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Romania¹

  • /ɹəʊˈmeɪ.ni.ə/ UK
  • /ɹəˈmeɪ.ni.ə/ UK
  • /ɹoʊˈmeɪ.ni.ə/ US
  • /ɹʊˈmeɪ.ni.ə/ UK, US
  • /ɹuːˈmeɪ.ni.ə/ UK, US
  • /ɾoˈme.ne.ə/ Scotland
  • /-nɪ.ə/ Scotland
  • /-ni.ə/ Scotland
  • /ɾoːˈmeː.ni.ə/ Wales
  • /ɹoˈmaː.nja/ Philippines

Rhymes with -eɪniə

Where it comes from

From Romanian România, from român (“Romanian”) (in turn from Latin Rōmānus (“Roman”)) + -ia.

proper noun România · Rumania · Roumania

  1. A country in Southeastern Europe. Capital and largest city: Bucharest. 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 count

Romania²

  • /ɹəʊˈmeɪ.ni.ə/ UK
  • /ɹəˈmeɪ.ni.ə/ UK
  • /ɹoʊˈmeɪ.ni.ə/ US
  • /ɹʊˈmeɪ.ni.ə/ UK, US
  • /ɹuːˈmeɪ.ni.ə/ UK, US
  • /ɾoˈme.ne.ə/ Scotland
  • /-nɪ.ə/ Scotland
  • /-ni.ə/ Scotland
  • /ɾoːˈmeː.ni.ə/ Wales
  • /ɹoˈmaː.nja/ Philippines

Rhymes with -eɪniə

Where it comes from

From Latin Rōmānia, from Medieval Greek Ῥωμανία (Rhōmanía), itself from Latin Rōmānus. By surface analysis, Roman + -ia. Doublet of Romagna.

proper noun Rhomania

  1. historical, literary The Latin- or Romance-speaking areas of Europe, collectively.
  2. historical Synonym of Byzantine Empire, also used for its former territories. 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, […]

    Similar: Byzantine Empire, also used for its former territories

Romania³

  • /ɹəʊˈmeɪ.ni.ə/ UK
  • /ɹəˈmeɪ.ni.ə/ UK
  • /ɹoʊˈmeɪ.ni.ə/ US
  • /ɹʊˈmeɪ.ni.ə/ UK, US
  • /ɹuːˈmeɪ.ni.ə/ UK, US
  • /ɾoˈme.ne.ə/ Scotland
  • /-nɪ.ə/ Scotland
  • /-ni.ə/ Scotland
  • /ɾoːˈmeː.ni.ə/ Wales
  • /ɹoˈmaː.nja/ Philippines

Rhymes with -eɪniə

proper noun

  1. obsolete Obsolete form of Romagna In the end of Ianuarie, Borbon passed the Po with all his troupes, and directed his iourney towards Romania: […]

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: roumania, rumania, lithuania, slovakia, poland, slovenia, hungary, spain, romanian, lesotho, românia, luo, rumanian, bucharest, roma, senegal

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name South-Eastern European country

EspañolRumania, Rumanía
한국어루마니아
日本語ルーマニア Rūmania
中文羅馬尼亞 /罗马尼亚 Luómǎníyà
हिन्दीरोमानिया romāniyā
KiswahiliRomania
FrançaisRoumanie
DeutschRumänien
ItalianoRomania
ΕλληνικάΡουμανία Roumanía
RomânăRomânia
РусскийРумы́ния Rumýnija
Tiếng ViệtRu-ma-ni, Lỗ Má Ni, România
العربيةرُومَانِيَا rūmāniyā
עבריתרוֹמַנְיָה románya

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@misc{romania_2026,
  title = {Romania},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/romania},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}