English → Latin
“province” in Latin
rēgiuskingly, regal, royal (of or pertaining to a king); magnificent, splendid, distinguished (worthy of a king)prōvinciaoffice, official duty, command, formal responsibility given to a magistrate; a task, responsibility, burden; the office parsa part, portion, piece, share; pars ... pars ..., some ... others ...; a party, fraction, sidedīvidōto divide, separate; to distribute, apportion; to distinguish as separate
The English word province itself goes back to Latin vinciō, through prōvincia.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
province
Region, tract, regio (general term, a tract of country): provincia (a tract of country subdued, and annexed to, or incorporated with the conquering state; ☞ never to be used in any other sense): to divide a country into four providences, terram in quatuor regiones describere or dividere: to reduce a country to the form of a providence, terram in provinciae formam reducere; terram provinciam conficere (Liv., 27, 5).
Office, munus omcium; partes; also by the pronoun meus, etc.; e.g., non est meum, it is not my providence.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for province?
- The usual Latin words for “province” are rēgius, prōvincia, pars; also dīvidō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.