English Explanatory Dictionary

Styria

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A southeastern state of Austria, with its capital in Graz.
  2. The Duchy of Styria, a duchy within the Holy Roman Empire, located in modern-day southern Austria and northern Slovenia.
  3. A former Austrian marchland.

Pronunciation

/ˈstɪɹiə/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Styria.wav

Word forms

Styria Stiria

Etymology

From Medieval Latin Styria, variant of Stiria, from Stira (“the Austrian city of Steyr”) + -ia (forming place names). Although no longer part of Styria, Steyr was the site of the court of the margraves of the March of Styria. It was itself named for its position at the confluence of the rivers Enns and Steyr.

Derived words

Styrian

Translations

Albanian: Stiria Armenian: Շտիրիա Basque: Estiria Bulgarian: Щирия Catalan: Estíria Czech: Štýrsko Danish: Steiermark Dutch: Stiermarken Estonian: Steiermark Finnish: Steiermark French: Styrie Galician: Estiria Georgian: შტირია German: Steiermark Bavarian German: Steiamoak Greek: Στυρία Hungarian: Stájerország Italian: Stiria Latin: Styria Latvian: Štirija Lithuanian: Štirija Macedonian: Штаерска Norwegian Bokmål: Steiermark Norwegian Nynorsk: Steiermark Polish: Styria Portuguese: Estíria Romanian: Stiria Russian: Шти́рия Serbo-Croatian: Штајерска Serbo-Croatian: Štajerska Slovak: Štajersko Slovene: Štajerska Spanish: Estiria Swedish: Steiermark Turkish: Steiermark Ukrainian: Шти́рія
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