Guinea
See also: guinea
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese Guiné, which is of uncertain origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡɪniː/
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Proper noun
Guinea
- Country in Western Africa. Official name: Republic of Guinea.
- (US, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) Someone of Italian descent in the United States.
Derived terms
terms derived from Guinea (proper noun)
Translations
Republic of Guinea
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See also
- Countries of the world
Catalan
Proper noun
Guinea f
Czech
Pronunciation
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Proper noun
Guinea f
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Further reading
- Guinea in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- Guinea in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
Danish
Proper noun
Guinea
- Guinea (country in West Africa)
Derived terms
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡineɑ/
- Hyphenation: Gui‧ne‧a
Proper noun
Guinea
Declension
| Inflection of Guinea (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | Guinea | — | |
| genitive | Guinean | — | |
| partitive | Guineaa | — | |
| illative | Guineaan | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Guinea | — | |
| accusative | nom. | Guinea | — |
| gen. | Guinean | ||
| genitive | Guinean | — | |
| partitive | Guineaa | — | |
| inessive | Guineassa | — | |
| elative | Guineasta | — | |
| illative | Guineaan | — | |
| adessive | Guinealla | — | |
| ablative | Guinealta | — | |
| allative | Guinealle | — | |
| essive | Guineana | — | |
| translative | Guineaksi | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| abessive | Guineatta | — | |
| comitative | — | — | |
German
Pronunciation
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Proper noun
Guinea n (plural Guinea or Guinea's)
- Guinea
- 1835, Joh. Georg August Galletti's allgemeine Weltkunde oder geographisch-statistisch-historische Uebersicht aller Länder [...] Achte Auflage, verbessert und vermehrt von J. G. F. Cannabich, column 442:
- Balbi klassifizirt die sämtlichen afrikanischen Zungen auf nachstehende Art: [...] 3) Sprachen von Nigritien oder dem Negerlande, wohin er auch Senegambien und beide Guinea rechnet, [...].
- 1831, Wörterbuch der Naturgeschichte, dem gegenwärtigen Stande der Botanik, Mineralogie und Zoologie angemessen. Siebenter Band, page 137:
- Am besten kennt man in den beiden Guinea's die Fulah's, die Jolof's, die Sousou's, die Mandingo's, die Aschantie's, die Neger von der Küste von Ardra und Benin, die Bewohner der Küste Gabon [...]
- 1843, Joseph Russegger, Reisen in Europa, Asien und Afrika [...]. Zweiter Band. Reisen in Egypten, Nubien und Ost-Sudan. Erster Theil. Erste Reise durch Egypten und Nubien, page 8:
- [...] das Vorschreiten der Kolonien in Senegambien, in beiden Guinea's, am Vorgebirge der guten Hoffnung u. s. w.
- 1835, Joh. Georg August Galletti's allgemeine Weltkunde oder geographisch-statistisch-historische Uebersicht aller Länder [...] Achte Auflage, verbessert und vermehrt von J. G. F. Cannabich, column 442:
Derived terms
- Äquatorialguinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Guineer
- guineisch
- Oberguinea, Ober-Guinea
- Portugiesisch-Guinea
- Spanisch-Guinea
Italian
Proper noun
Guinea f
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Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈɡʷi.ne.a/, [ˈɡᶣɪ.ne.a]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈɡwi.ne.a/, [ˈɡwiː.ne.a]
Proper noun
Guinea f (genitive Guineae); first declension
Inflection
First declension.
| Case | Singular |
|---|---|
| nominative | Guinea |
| genitive | Guineae |
| dative | Guineae |
| accusative | Guineam |
| ablative | Guineā |
| vocative | Guinea |
Norwegian Bokmål
Proper noun
Guinea
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Norwegian Nynorsk
Proper noun
Guinea
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See also
Spanish
Proper noun
Guinea f
Synonyms
- República de Guinea
Swedish
Proper noun
Guinea n (genitive Guineas)
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