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From Latin Frisia, from Frisii (“Frisians”).

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Frisia

1. (historical) A coastal geographical region in Western Europe, along the southeastern corner of the North Sea in what today is mostly a large part of the Netherlands (including the present-day province of Frisia; see below) and smaller parts of northern Germany (including present-day East Frisia). It is the traditional homeland of the Frisians.
   • 1878, Philip Smith, The History of the Christian Church During the First Ten Centuries, page 519:

     Devoting himself to labour among the heathen, [Winfrid] crossed to Frisia, in 716; […]

2. (exonym) Fryslân, a province of the Netherlands. Also referred to as Friesland (using the Dutch vernacular endonym) and West Frisia.
   • 1913, Municipal Journal, Public Works Engineer and Contractors' Guide, Volume 22, page 1166:

     The population of the Province of Frisia, which is divided into eleven urban and thirty rural communes, is of a people of a distinct national character, who have never known feudalism and who attach a high importance to their independence and personal value, hard-working, and of a serious and grave character, with little sentiment for the past.

   • 2005, Carl Skutsch, Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities, Routledge, →ISBN, page 470:

     The three areas populated by Frisians today are the Dutch province of Frisia (West-Frisia), the German landscape East-Frisia […] , and the German district North-Frisia […] .

   • 2025 March 11, Philip Oltermann, “‘If all I cared about was a career, I’d make listenable music’: Joost Klein on Eurovision, scandal and having the last laugh”, in The Guardian:

     Klein is celebrating the release of his new album Unity with an 18-stop, 35,000-ticket tour that doesn’t just loop in Frisia and Wallonia but also includes sold-out shows in London and LA […]

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Frīsia f sg (genitive Frīsiae); first declension

1. (historical) Frisia (a traditionally Frisian-speaking coastal Western Europe, politically split between Netherlands and Germany)

語形変化

First-declension noun, singular only.

派生した語

• Catalan: Frísia
• French: Frise
• Italian: Frisia
• Portuguese: Frísia
• Spanish: Frisia