English Explanatory Dictionary

Pannonia

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. 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.

Pronunciation

/pəˈnəʊ.ni.ə/ /pəˈnoʊ.ni.ə/

Word forms

Pannonia

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Pannonia, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pen- (“moist; wet; mud; swamp; water”), thus meaning (and ultimately related to) fen, fenland.

Derived words

Pannonian Pannonianism pannoniasaur Pannonic
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