Bithynia

English
Bithynia is coloured red in this map of the provinces of the Roman Empire in AD 120.

Etymology

From the Latin Bīthȳnia, from the Ancient Greek Βῑθῡνῐ́ᾱ (Bīthūníā).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /bɪˈθɪni.ə/

Proper noun

Bithynia

  1. An ancient region, kingdom and Roman province in the northwest of Asia Minor.

Translations

Further reading

Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek Βῑθῡνῐ́ᾱ (Bīthūníā).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Bīthȳnia f (genitive Bīthȳniae); first declension

  1. Bithynia (a very fruitful province in Asia Minor, between the Propontis and the Black Sea, where the Romans carried on a considerable trade)

Declension

First declension, with locative.

Case Singular
Nominative Bīthȳnia
Genitive Bīthȳniae
Dative Bīthȳniae
Accusative Bīthȳniam
Ablative Bīthȳniā
Vocative Bīthȳnia
Locative Bīthȳniae

Derived terms
  • Bīthȳnī
  • Bīthȳnicus
  • Bīthȳniī
  • Bīthȳnion
  • Bīthȳnis
  • Bīthȳnius
  • Bīthȳnus

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
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