Hebdomum
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἕβδομον (Hébdomon).
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: hĕbʹdŏməm, IPA(key): /ˈhɛbdɒməm/
Proper noun edit
Hebdomum
- (historical) A suburb of Constantinople.
- 1720, Josiah Burchett, A Complete History of the Most Remarkable Transactions at Sea, page 189:
- Muhavias by the Death of Oſman, and his Succeſſor Aly, becoming Caliph, ſo conſiderably encreaſed his Power that he rendered the Emperor Conſtantine Pogonatus his Tributary; in the fifth Year of which Prince’s Reign, the Saracens coming up with a great Fleet and Army to Conſtantinople, they ſeized on all that lay between the Hebdomum and Cyclobium, two Suburbs of that City; whereupon Conſtantine brought out his Fleet, and they fought every Day from Morning till Night in the Port there.
- 1846, Sir William Smith, “Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology”, in Earinus-Nyx, volume 2, page 513:
- The inauguration took place at the palace or justice court, Hebdomum (Ἕβδομον), near Constantinople.