Palaestina

• 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”).

• Palaestīnē, Palēstīna

Palaestīna f sg (genitive Palaestīnae); first declension

1. 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...

2. (New Latin) Palestine (a country in Western Asia)

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Palaestīna

1. inflection of Palaestīnus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Palaestīnā

1. ablative feminine singular of Palaestīnus

• “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.