Moesia

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See also: Moésia and Mœsia

English

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Moesia as a Roman province

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Etymology

From Latin Moesia, from Ancient Greek Μοισία (Moisía).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Moesia

  2. (historical) An ancient region and later former Roman province situated in the Balkans, along the south bank of the Danube River, mainly in what is now Bulgaria and Serbia.

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Latin

Moesia (in red) on a map of the provinces of the Roman Empire circa AD 120.

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Μοισῐ́ᾱ (Moisĭ́ā, “land of the Moesi”).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Moesia f sg (genitive Moesiae); first declension

  1. (historical) Moesia (An ancient region and later former Roman province situated in the Balkans, along the south bank of the Danube River, mainly in what is now Bulgaria and Serbia)

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

singular
nominative Moesia
genitive Moesiae
dative Moesiae
accusative Moesiam
ablative Moesiā
vocative Moesia
locative Moesiae

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Further reading

  • “Moesi”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Moesia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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