Nova Scotia

English

Etymology

From Latin, literally “New Scotland”, from nova, feminine of novus (“new”) + Scōtia (“Scotland”).

Pronunciation

• (Canada, General American) IPA^(key): /ˌnoʊ.və ˈskoʊ.ʃə/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌnəʊ.və ˈskəʊ.ʃə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

Nova Scotia

2. A province in eastern Canada. Capital: Halifax.

   Holonyms: Maritimes, Maritime provinces

   Meronyms: Nova Scotia peninsula, Cape Breton Island

4. A peninsula on the coast of the Atlantic, comprising most of the province of Nova Scotia; Nova Scotia peninsula.

Derived terms

• Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever
• Nova Scotia peninsula
• Nova Scotia salmon
• Nova Scotian
• NS, N.S., N. S. (abbreviation)

Translations

province in eastern Canada

• Afrikaans: Nova Scotia, Nieu-Skotland
• Arabic: نُوفَا سْكُوتْيَا f (nūfā skūtyā), نُوفَا سْكُوشَا f (nūfā skūšā), إسكتلندا الجديدة f
• Armenian: Նոր Շոտլանդիա (Nor Šotlandia)
• Basque: Eskozia Berria
• Bulgarian: Но́ва Ско́тия f (Nóva Skótija)
• Catalan: Nova Escòcia f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 諾華斯高沙 / 诺华斯高沙 (nok⁶ waa⁴ si¹ gou¹ saa¹), 諾華斯高沙省 / 诺华斯高沙省 (nok⁶ waa⁴ si¹ gou¹ saa¹ saang²), 斯高沙 (si¹ gou¹ saa¹), 斯高沙省 (si¹ gou¹ saa¹ saang²), 新斯高沙 (san¹ si¹ gou¹ saa¹), 新斯高沙省 (san¹ si¹ gou¹ saa¹ saang²)

  Mandarin: 新斯科舍 (zh) (Xīn Sīkēshě), 新斯科舍省 (Xīn Sīkēshě Shěng), 新斯科細亞 / 新斯科细亚 (zh) (Xīn Sīkēxìyà), 新斯科細亞省 / 新斯科细亚省 (Xīn Sīkēxìyà Shěng), 諾華斯高沙 / 诺华斯高沙 (Nuòhuá Sīgāoshā), 諾華斯高沙省 / 诺华斯高沙省 (Nuòhuá Sīgāoshā Shěng), 斯高沙 (Sīgāoshā), 斯高沙省 (Sīgāoshā Shěng), 新斯高沙 (Xīn Sīgāoshā), 新斯高沙省 (Xīn Sīgāoshā Shěng)

• Corsican: Nova Scozia f
• Czech: Nové Skotsko (cs) n
• Danish: Nova Scotia
• Dutch: Nova Scotia, Nieuw-Schotland n
• Esperanto: Nov-Skotio
• Estonian: Nova Scotia
• Finnish: Nova Scotia (fi)
• French: Nouvelle-Écosse (fr) f
• Galician: Nova Escocia (gl) f
• Georgian: ახალი შოტლანდია (axali šoṭlandia)
• German: Neuschottland (de) n, Nova Scotia (de) n
• Greek: Νέα Σκωτία f (Néa Skotía)
• Hindi: नोवा स्कॉटिया (novā skŏṭiyā)
• Hungarian: Új-Skócia (hu)
• Icelandic: Nýja-Skotland n
• Inuktitut: ᓅᕙᓯᑰᓴ (noofasikoosa)
• Irish: Albain Nua f
• Italian: Nuova Scozia (it) f
• Japanese: ノバスコシア (ja) (Nobasukoshia), ノバスコシア州 (Nobasukoshia-shū)
• Khmer: ណូវ៉ាស្កូស៊ី (nouvaa skousii)
• Korean: 노바스코샤 (Nobaseukosya)
• Latin: Nova Scōtia f
• Latvian: Jaunskotija f
• Lithuanian: Naujoji Škotija f
• Macedonian: Нова Шкотска f (Nova Škotska)
• Manx: Nalbin Noa f, Yn Albin Noa f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Nova Scotia

• Occitan: Nòva Escòcia f
• Ottawa: Miijmaawki
• Polish: Nowa Szkocja (pl) f
• Portuguese: Nova Escócia (pt) f
• Romanian: Noua Scoție f
• Russian: Но́вая Шотла́ндия (ru) f (Nóvaja Šotlándija)
• Scots: Nova Scotia
• Scottish Gaelic: Alba Nuadh f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Нова Шкотска f

  Latin: Nova Škotska f

• Slovak: Nové Škótsko n
• Slovene: Nova Škotska (sl) f
• Spanish: Nueva Escocia f
• Swedish: Nova Scotia (sv)
• Ukrainian: Нова Шотландія f (Nova Šotlandija)
• Vietnamese: Nô-va Xcô-ti-a
• Volapük: Nula-Skotän (vo)
• Welsh: Nova Scotia m or f, yr Alban Newydd f

Anagrams

• avocations

Finnish

Nova Scotia

Etymology

< English Nova Scotia

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnoʋɑ ˈskou̯ʃɑ/, [ˈno̞ʋɑ̝ ˈs̠ko̞u̯ʃɑ̝]

Proper noun

Nova Scotia

1. Nova Scotia (a province in eastern Canada)

Declension

Inflection of Nova Scotia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative		Nova Scotia	—
genitive		Nova Scotian	—
partitive		Nova Scotiaa	—
illative		Nova Scotiaan	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Nova Scotia	—
accusative	nom.	Nova Scotia	—
	gen.	Nova Scotian
genitive		Nova Scotian	—
partitive		Nova Scotiaa	—
inessive		Nova Scotiassa	—
elative		Nova Scotiasta	—
illative		Nova Scotiaan	—
adessive		Nova Scotialla	—
ablative		Nova Scotialta	—
allative		Nova Scotialle	—
essive		Nova Scotiana	—
translative		Nova Scotiaksi	—
abessive		Nova Scotiatta	—
instructive		—	—
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of Nova Scotia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Nova Scotiani — accusative nom. Nova Scotiani — gen. Nova Scotiani genitive Nova Scotiani — partitive Nova Scotiaani — inessive Nova Scotiassani — elative Nova Scotiastani — illative Nova Scotiaani — adessive Nova Scotiallani — ablative Nova Scotialtani — allative Nova Scotialleni — essive Nova Scotianani — translative Nova Scotiakseni — abessive Nova Scotiattani — instructive — — comitative — — second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Nova Scotiasi — accusative nom. Nova Scotiasi — gen. Nova Scotiasi genitive Nova Scotiasi — partitive Nova Scotiaasi — inessive Nova Scotiassasi — elative Nova Scotiastasi — illative Nova Scotiaasi — adessive Nova Scotiallasi — ablative Nova Scotialtasi — allative Nova Scotiallesi — essive Nova Scotianasi — translative Nova Scotiaksesi — abessive Nova Scotiattasi — instructive — — comitative — — first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Nova Scotiamme — accusative nom. Nova Scotiamme — gen. Nova Scotiamme genitive Nova Scotiamme — partitive Nova Scotiaamme — inessive Nova Scotiassamme — elative Nova Scotiastamme — illative Nova Scotiaamme — adessive Nova Scotiallamme — ablative Nova Scotialtamme — allative Nova Scotiallemme — essive Nova Scotianamme — translative Nova Scotiaksemme — abessive Nova Scotiattamme — instructive — — comitative — — second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Nova Scotianne — accusative nom. Nova Scotianne — gen. Nova Scotianne genitive Nova Scotianne — partitive Nova Scotiaanne — inessive Nova Scotiassanne — elative Nova Scotiastanne — illative Nova Scotiaanne — adessive Nova Scotiallanne — ablative Nova Scotialtanne — allative Nova Scotiallenne — essive Nova Scotiananne — translative Nova Scotiaksenne — abessive Nova Scotiattanne — instructive — — comitative — — third-person possessor singular plural nominative Nova Scotiansa — accusative nom. Nova Scotiansa — gen. Nova Scotiansa genitive Nova Scotiansa — partitive Nova Scotiaansa — inessive Nova Scotiassaan Nova Scotiassansa — elative Nova Scotiastaan Nova Scotiastansa — illative Nova Scotiaansa — adessive Nova Scotiallaan Nova Scotiallansa — ablative Nova Scotialtaan Nova Scotialtansa — allative Nova Scotialleen Nova Scotiallensa — essive Nova Scotianaan Nova Scotianansa — translative Nova Scotiakseen Nova Scotiaksensa — abessive Nova Scotiattaan Nova Scotiattansa — instructive — — comitative — —

Derived terms

compounds

• novascotiannoutaja

Latin

Nova Scōtia inter prōvinciās Canadae aliās sita

Etymology

Calqued from an English or Scots New Scotland (being the languages which the poet and colonist William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling, to whom the royal charter for the colonisation of Nova Scotia was appointed) in 1621 for the charter formalising the area's colonisation. Analysable as nova +‎ Scōtia; note the English influence in adjective placement in comparison to antiquarian Roman provinces, which universally used the more common placement of the adjective after the noun (cf. the similarly named Africa Nova).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈnɔ.wa ˈskoː.ti.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈnɔː.va ˈskɔt.t͡si.a]

Proper noun

Nova Scōtia f sg (genitive Novae Scōtiae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Nova Scotia (a province in eastern Canada)
   • 1676, Anthony Bruodin, “De Scotorum & Anglorum vanis prætenſionibus, in Scotum [On the vain pretensions of the Scots and English, in a Scotsman]” (chapter 8), in Armamentarium Theologicum ad Mentem Doctoris Sibtilis [Theological Arsenal for the Mind of a Subtle Teacher]‎^[3], Prague, De Scoti Vita [On the Life of the Scot]:

     Non valet mi Dempſtere hæc conſequentia, Beda Anglus erat: ergo fuit natus in nova Anglia; nec valebit pariter hæc altera tua, & tuorum, Joannes Duns, Scotus erat: ergo fuit natus in Albionenſi, ſeu nova Scotia?

     [nōn valet mī Dempstere haec cōnsequentia: “Beda Anglus erat, ergō fuit nātus in Novā Angliā” — nec valēbit pariter haec altera tua et tuōrum: “Jōhannēs Duns Scōtus erat, ergō fuit nātus in Albiōnensī seu Novā Scōtiā?”]

     This consequence, my dear Dempster, does not hold: “Bede was Enlgish, thus he was born in New England” — nor likewise will this other one of yours and your followers hold: “Johannes Duns was a Scotsman, thus was he born in Albion or New Scotland?”

Declension

First-declension adjective with a first-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Nova Scōtia
genitive	Novae Scōtiae
dative	Novae Scōtiae
accusative	Novam Scōtiam
ablative	Novā Scōtiā
vocative	Nova Scōtia
locative	Novae Scōtiae

Descendants

All calques are based on the English; i.e., taken from the English and calqued from the Latin.

• → English: Nova Scotia
  • → German: Nova Scotia
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: Nova Scotia
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: Nova Scotia
  • → Welsh: Nova Scotia
  • → Yiddish: נאָווע סקאָשע (nóve skóshe)
• → Icelandic: Nýja-Skotland (calque)
• → Pennsylvania German: Nei-Schottland (calque)
• → Scots: Nova Scotia
• → Welsh: Alban Newydd (calque)