California

Probably Spanish after California, a Utopian island of the Amazons described in Las sergas de Esplandián, a 16th-century Spanish novel. The name comes from the fictional island's Muslim-allied queen, Calafia, whose name may be a play on Arabic خَلِيفَة (ḵalīfa, “caliph”). For more information see: Etymology of California.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌkæ.lɪˈfɔː.ni.ə/, /-njə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌkæ.lɪˈfoɹ.njə/, /ˌkæ.lɪˈfoɹ.ni.ə/
• (without the horse–hoarse merger)
  • (rhotic) IPA^(key): /ˌkæl.ɪˈfɔɹ.njə/
  • (non-rhotic) IPA^(key): /ˌkæl.ɪˈfɔː.njə/

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• (Indic) IPA^(key): /ˈkalɪfo(r)n(ɪ)jɑ/, /kəlɪˈfo(r)n(ɪ)jɑ/, /-ˈfɔ(r)-/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)niə
• Hyphenation: Cal‧i‧for‧nia

California (countable and uncountable, plural Californias)

2. The most populous state of the United States. Capital: Sacramento. Largest city: Los Angeles.

   Synonyms: (abbreviation) CA, (slang) Cali, (derogatory) Commiefornia

   • 1971, Joni Mitchell, “California”, in Blue:

     But my heart cried out for you, California / Oh, California, I'm coming home

   • 2007 May 13, “Natalie Lui, Stephen Duncan”, in The New York Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 26 November 2022:

     The men I met in California who were in their 30s and superambitious never really valued women, but Stephen valued me as a person.”

   • 2018 May, June Lin, “California Usury Laws”, in Niesar & Vestal LLP‎^[2], page 1:

     The originator of a usurious loan in California is subject to severe civil penalties.

3. (chiefly historical) A region on the west coast of North America comprising the US state of California and the Baja California peninsula in Mexico; historically also including other areas in Alta California and Baja California.
4. Several places in the United States:
   1. A city in Campbell County, Kentucky.
   2. A neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky.
   3. An unincorporated community in the town of Stockholm, Aroostook County, Maine.
   4. A census-designated place in St. Mary's County, Maryland.
   5. A township in Branch County, Michigan.
   6. A city, the county seat of Moniteau County, Missouri.
   7. A neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio.
   8. A borough in Washington County, Pennsylvania.
   9. A ghost town in Wirt County, West Virginia.
5. Several places in England:
   1. A suburban village and park in Finchampstead parish, Wokingham borough, Berkshire (OS grid ref SU7964).
   2. A neighbourhood of Birmingham, West Midlands (OS grid ref SP0182).
   3. An area of Derby, Derbyshire.
   4. A district of Ipswich, Suffolk.
   5. A southern suburb of Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire (OS grid ref SP8113).
   6. An outer suburb of Dunstable, Bedfordshire (OS grid ref TL0120).
   7. A seaside resort in Ormesby St Margaret with Scratby civil parish, Great Yarmouth borough, Norfolk (OS grid ref TG5115).
6. A village in Falkirk council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS9076).
7. A community in Ontario, Canada.
8. A town in Santander department, Colombia.
9. A town in Usulután department, El Salvador.
10. A neighborhood of Casablanca, Morocco.
11. A barangay of Barotac Viejo, Iloilo, Philippines.
12. A barangay of Ubay, Bohol, Philippines.
13. A town in Trinidad and Tobago.
14. University of California, Berkeley.

• Dalifornia

• California on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Etymology of California
• California on Wikiquote.Wikiquote
• California on Wikivoyage.Wikivoyage
• Category:California on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

• Fornicalia

California

1. California (the most populous state of the United States)

California (genitive Californias)

1. alternative form of Californien

California ?

1. California (the most populous state of the United States)

• californiano

Borrowed from English California.

• IPA^(key): /ka.liˈfɔr.nja/
• Rhymes: -ɔrnja
• Hyphenation: Ca‧li‧fòr‧nia

California f

1. California (the most populous state of the United States)

New Latin, borrowed from Spanish California, ultimately related to Arabic خَلِيفَة (ḵalīfa, “caliph”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ka.liːˈfɔr.ni.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ka.liˈfɔr.ni.a]

Calīfornia f sg (genitive Calīforniae); first declension

1. (New Latin) California (the most populous state of the United States)

   Calīfornia regiō magna est. ― California is a big region.

First-declension noun, singular only.

• calīforniānus
• calīfornicus

California f

1. California (the most populous state of the United States)

• californian

First attested in Montalvo's Las sergas de Esplandián as the name of Calafia's monarchy. A name invented by the author to remind Spanish readers of the recent Reconquista, probably based on califa (“caliph”). By surface analysis, califa +‎ -or +‎ -n- +‎ -ia.

• IPA^(key): /kaliˈfoɾnja/ [ka.liˈfoɾ.nja]
• Rhymes: -oɾnja
• Syllabification: Ca‧li‧for‧nia

California f

1. California (the most populous state of the United States)
   • 2023 September 29, “Los latinos de Estados Unidos serían la quinta economía más grande del mundo si fueran un país, afirma un estudio”, in CNN en Español‎^[3], archived from the original on 15 April 2024:

     El PIB de la comunidad latina estadounidense estimado por LDC supera el de países como Francia, Reino Unido y la India; tan solo en un estado, California, la economía latina ocuparía el lugar 21 entre las más grandes del mundo, superando la de Suiza.

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2. a town in Usulután department, El Salvador

California on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

• Putnam, Ruth (1917). Herbert Ingram Priestley (ed.). California: the name. Berkeley: University of California.