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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Βύβλος (Búblos), from Phoenician 𐤂𐤁𐤋 (gbl).
Proper noun
Byblus f sg (genitive Byblī); second declension
- Byblos (Phoenician town in modern Lebanon)
Declension
Second-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
References
- “Byblus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Byblus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.