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

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

Translations

ancient region

• Armenian: Բութանիա (Butʻania)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 比提尼亞／比提尼亚 (Bǐtíníyà)

• Danish: Bithynien
• French: Bithynie (fr) f
• German: Bithynien (de) n
• Greek:

  Ancient: Βῑθῡνῐ́ᾱ f (Bīthūníā)

• Irish: an Bhitín f
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• Japanese: ビテュニア (Bityunia)
• Korean: 비티니아 (Bitinia)
• Latin: Bīthȳnia (la) f
• Polish: Bitynia (pl) f
• Portuguese: Bitínia f
• Romanian: Bitinia f
• Russian: Вифи́ния (ru) f (Vifínija)
• Spanish: Bitinia f
• Swedish: Bithynien (sv)

Further reading

• Bithynia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek Βῑθῡνῐ́ᾱ (Bīthūníā).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /biːˈtʰyː.ni.a/, [biːˈt̪ʰyːniä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /biˈti.ni.a/, [biˈt̪iːniä]

Proper noun

Bīthȳnia f sg (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 noun, with locative, singular only.

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

• English: Bithynia

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

• Bithynia on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la