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Bithynia

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Bithynia f

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Bithyniidae – certain freshwater snails.

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Bithynia is coloured red in this map of the provinces of the Roman Empire in AD 120.

Etymology edit

From the Latin Bīthȳnia, from the Ancient Greek Βῑθῡνῐ́ᾱ (Bīthūníā).

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Bithynia

  2. (historical) A region, ancient kingdom, and historical province of the Roman Empire, in the northwest of Asia Minor in modern Turkey.

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Bithynia (in red) on a map of the provinces of the Roman Empire circa AD 120.

Etymology edit

From the Ancient Greek Βῑθῡνῐ́ᾱ (Bīthūníā).

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Bīthȳnia f sg (genitive Bīthȳniae); first declension

  1. (historical) Bithynia (a region, ancient kingdom, and historical province of the Roman Empire, in the northwest of Asia Minor in modern Turkey)

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First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Bīthȳnia
Genitive Bīthȳniae
Dative Bīthȳniae
Accusative Bīthȳniam
Ablative Bīthȳniā
Vocative Bīthȳnia
Locative Bīthȳniae

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  • English: Bithynia
  • Polish: Bitynia

References edit

  • “Bīthȳnĭa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Bithynia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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