Kiovia

English

Kiovia

Obsolete form of Kyiv.
- 1697, Samuel Puffendorf, translated by [Jodocus Crull], An Introduction to the History of the Principal Kingdoms and States of Europe, 2nd edition, London: M. Gilliflower and T. Newborough, page 334:
  Before this time the Coſacks were only a wild and barbarous ſort of Rabble, who were gathered out of the Poliſh Ruſſia, and having ſettled themſelves in the Iſland of the River Boryſthenes beneath Kiovia, lived upon Robbing and Plunder.

Likely from Kiōv- (from Polish Kijów) +‎ -ia

Kiōvia: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kiˈoː.u̯i.a/, [kiˈoːu̯iä]
Kiōvia: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kiˈo.vi.a/, [kiˈɔːviä]
Kiōviā: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kiˈoː.u̯i.aː/, [kiˈoːu̯iäː]
Kiōviā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kiˈo.vi.a/, [kiˈɔːviä]

Kiōvia f sg (genitive Kiōviae); first declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Kiōviā f