Byzas

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English

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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Bȳzās, from Ancient Greek Βύζας (Búzas).

Proper noun

Byzas

  1. (Ancient Greece) The legendary founder of Byzantium.
    • 2019, Marion Kruse, The Politics of Roman Memory: From the Fall of the Western Empire to the Age of Justinian, University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 49:
      Romulus and Byzas are obviously parallel figures not only in their capacity as founders, but also in their genealogies.

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Βύζας (Búzas); from a Thracian *būzas, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuǵ-.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Bȳzās m sg (genitive Bȳzae); first declension

  1. Byzas (legendary founder of Byzantium)

Declension

First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ās), singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Bȳzās
Genitive Bȳzae
Dative Bȳzae
Accusative Bȳzān
Bȳzam
Ablative Bȳzā
Vocative Bȳzā

Descendants

  • → English: Byzas (learned)

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