Mauritia
Translingual
Etymology
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Proper noun
Mauritia f
References
- Mauritia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Mauritia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Category:Mauritia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
English
Etymology
From Mauritius + -ia, from lying underneath Mauritius.
Proper noun
Mauritia
- A former microcontinent that once formed the landbridge between the subcontinents of Madagascar and India, which was subducted under the African plate, and now partly lie under the region of Mauritius.
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [mau̯ˈriː.ti.a]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [mau̯ˈrit.t͡si.a]
Proper noun
Maurītia f sg (genitive Maurītiae); first declension
- (New Latin) Mauritius (an island and country in East Africa in the Indian Ocean)
Declension
First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.