Moesia
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- Mœsia (archaic)
Etymology edit
From Latin Moesia, from Ancient Greek Μοισία (Moisía).
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Moesia
- (historical) An ancient region and later former Roman province situated in the Balkans, along the south bank of the Danube River, mainly in what is now Bulgaria and Serbia.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
an ancient region and later Roman province situated in the Balkans
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Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek Μοισῐ́ᾱ (Moisíā, “land of the Moesi”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmoe̯.si.a/, [ˈmoe̯s̠iä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈme.si.a/, [ˈmɛːs̬iä]
Proper noun edit
Moesia f sg (genitive Moesiae); first declension
- (historical) Moesia (An ancient region and later former Roman province situated in the Balkans, along the south bank of the Danube River, mainly in what is now Bulgaria and Serbia)
Declension edit
First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
Case | Singular |
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Nominative | Moesia |
Genitive | Moesiae |
Dative | Moesiae |
Accusative | Moesiam |
Ablative | Moesiā |
Vocative | Moesia |
Locative | Moesiae |
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- English: Moesia
- Italian: Mesia
- Portuguese: Moésia, Mésia
- Spanish: Mesia
- → German: Mösia, Mösien
- ⇒ German: Mösogothen; mösogothisch
Further reading edit
- “Moesi”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Moesia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.