Carinthia

Meaning

Proper Noun

• A federal state of modern Austria, with its capital in Klagenfurt.
• region in modern Slovenia (country).
• A region of the Holy Roman and Austrian empires.

Related

Similar words

• Slovenian Carinthia

Origin

• Ultimately from Latin Carantania. Possibly of Celtic origin, compare Proto-Celtic *karants ("friend"). The Latin toponym was also borrowed into Slavic as Proto-Slavic *korǫtanъ (with an adjective Proto-Slavic *korǫtьskъ), compare Czech Korutany and Slovene Koroška ("Carinthia").