Bithynia
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Bithynia is coloured red in this map of the provinces of the Roman Empire in AD 120.
Bithynia (in red) on a map of the provinces of the Roman Empire circa AD 120.
Translingual
Etymology
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Proper noun
Bithynia f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Bithyniidae – certain freshwater snails.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Spiralia – superphylum; Mollusca – phylum; Gastropoda - class; Caenogastropoda - subclass; Littorinimorpha - order; Truncatelloidea - superfamily; Bithyniidae - family
Hyponyms
- (genus): Bithynia tentaculata - type species
References
Bithynia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Bithynia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Bithynia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
English
Etymology
From the Latin Bīthȳnia, from the Ancient Greek Βῑθῡνῐ́ᾱ (Bīthūníā).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Bithynia
- (historical) A region, ancient kingdom, and historical province of the Roman Empire, in the northwest of Asia Minor in modern Turkey.
Translations
ancient region
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Further reading
Latin
Etymology
From the Ancient Greek Βῑθῡνῐ́ᾱ (Bīthūníā).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /biːˈtʰyː.ni.a/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /biˈti.ni.a/,
Proper noun
Bīthȳnia f sg (genitive Bīthȳniae); first declension
- (historical) Bithynia (a region, ancient kingdom, and historical province of the Roman Empire, in the northwest of Asia Minor in modern Turkey)
Declension
First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
| Case | Singular |
|---|---|
| Nominative | Bīthȳnia |
| Genitive | Bīthȳniae |
| Dative | Bīthȳniae |
| Accusative | Bīthȳniam |
| Ablative | Bīthȳniā |
| Vocative | Bīthȳnia |
| Locative | Bīthȳniae |
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “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.
Further reading
- Bithynia on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia la