Narnia

English

Etymology

Named by C. S. Lewis after the Latin name of the Italian town of Narni.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈnɑː(ɹ).ni.ə/

Proper noun

Narnia

1. (fantasy) A land in which a series of seven children's books, The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis are set.

Derived terms

• Narnian

Translations

a fictional land

• Afrikaans: Narnia
• Arabic: نارنيا
• Bengali: নার্নিয়া (narniẏa)
• Bulgarian: Нарния (Narnija)
• Catalan: Narnia
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 納尼亞／纳尼亚 (zh) (Nàníyà)

• Czech: Narnie
• Danish: Narnia
• Dutch: Narnia
• Esperanto: Narnio
• Estonian: Narnia
• Faroese: Narnia
• Finnish: Narnia
• French: Narnia (fr)
• German: Narnia
• Hebrew: נרניה
• Hindi: नार्निया (nārniyā)
• Hungarian: Narnia
• Icelandic: Narnía
• Indonesian: Narnia
• Italian: Narnia
• Japanese: ナルニア国 (Narunia-koku)
• Korean: 나니아 (Nania)
• Latvian: Narnija
• Lithuanian: Narnija
• Macedonian: Нарнија (Narnija)
• Malay: Narnia
• Marathi: नार्निया (nārniyā)
• Mongolian: Нарниа (Narnia)
• Norwegian: Narnia
• Polish: Narnia (pl)
• Portuguese: Nárnia f
• Romanian: Narnia
• Russian: На́рния f (Nárnija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Нарнија

  Roman: Narnija

• Slovene: Narnija
• Spanish: Narnia (es)
• Swedish: Narnia
• Thai: นาร์เนีย
• Turkish: Narnia
• Ukrainian: Нарнія (Narnija)
• Uyghur: نارنىيا (narniya)
• Vietnamese: Narnia
• Welsh: Narnia

Anagrams

• Narain

Latin

Pronunciation

•  (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈnaːr.ni.a/, [ˈnäːrniä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈnar.ni.a/, [ˈnärniä]

Proper noun

Nārnia f sg (genitive Nārniae); first declension

1. Narni (a city in Italy)

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Nārnia
genitive	Nārniae
dative	Nārniae
accusative	Nārniam
ablative	Nārniā
vocative	Nārnia
locative	Nārniae

Descendants

• Ancient Greek: Νάρνεια (Nárneia)
• Italian: Narni

References

• “Narnia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Narnia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.