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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Βόστρα (Bóstra).
Proper noun
Bostra f sg (genitive Bostrae); first declension
- Bosra (a Nabataean city, later capital of Arabia province, in modern Syria)
Declension
First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
References
- “Bostra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Bostra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.