Estonia

专有名词
中文释义
英 /ɛˈstəʊni.ə/    美 /ɛˈstoʊni.ə/|/ɛˈstoʊn.jə/

英文释义

专有名词
  1. A country in northeastern Europe, on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea. Official name: Republic of Estonia.
    — “In the late 1930s, the Western democracies hesitated in the face of danger,” Prime Minister Siim Kallas of Estonia, a former Soviet republic, told me. “As a consequence, we fell under dictatorships and many people lost their lives. Action is sometimes necessary.”

词形变化

Estonias plural Esthonia alternative,dated

词源

Borrowed from Medieval Latin Estonia. Other early Latin forms were Estia and Hestia, possibly derived from the tribal name Aestiī described by the Roman historian Tacitus in his Germania (ca. 98 AD). Displaced Middle English Ēstland, from Old English Ēstland. Compare also Old Norse Æistland, Icelandic Eistland, German Estland (“Estonia”).
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