Bithynia

Translingual

Etymology

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Proper noun

Bithynia f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Bithyniidae – certain freshwater snails.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Spiralia – superphylum; Mollusca – phylum; Gastropoda - class; Caenogastropoda - subclass; Littorinimorpha - order; Truncatelloidea - superfamily; Bithyniidae - family

Hyponyms

• (genus): Bithynia tentaculata - type species

References

• Bithynia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Bithynia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Bithynia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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. (historical) A region, ancient kingdom, and historical province of the Roman Empire, in the northwest of Asia Minor in modern Turkey.

Translations

ancient region

• Arabic: بِيثِينِيَا f (bīṯīniyā)
• Armenian: Բութանիա (Butʻania)
• Azerbaijani: Vifiniya
• Basque: Bitinia
• Bulgarian: Вити́ния f (Vitínija)
• Catalan: Bitínia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 比提尼亞／比提尼亚 (Bǐtíníyà)

• Czech: Bithýnie f
• Danish: Bithynien
• Dutch: Bithynië
• Estonian: Bitüünia
• Finnish: Bithynia
• French: Bithynie (fr) f
• Galician: Bitinia f
• Georgian: ბითინია (bitinia)
• German: Bithynien (de) n
• Greek: Βιθυνία (el) f (Vithynía)

  Ancient: Βῑθῡνῐ́ᾱ f (Bīthūníā)

• Hebrew: ביתיניה f (Bitiniya)
• Hungarian: Bithünia (hu)
• Irish: an Bhitín f
• Italian: Bitinia (it) f
• Japanese: ビテュニア (Bityunia)
• Korean: 비티니아 (Bitinia)
• Latin: Bīthȳnia (la) f
• Latvian: Bitīnija f
• Lithuanian: Bitinija f
• Macedonian: Витинија f (Vitinija)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Bitynia

  Nynorsk: Bithynia

• Persian: بیتینی (bîtîney)
• Polish: Bitynia (pl) f
• Portuguese: Bitínia f
• Romanian: Bitinia f
• Russian: Вифи́ния (ru) f (Vifínija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Битинија f

  Roman: Bitinija f

• Sicilian: Bitìnia f
• Slovak: Bitýnia f
• Slovene: Bitinija f
• Spanish: Bitinia f
• Swedish: Bithynien (sv)
• Turkish: Bitinya (tr)
• Ukrainian: Віфі́нія f (Vifínija), Віті́нія f (Vitínija)

Further reading

• Bithynia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

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

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. (historical) Bithynia (a region, ancient kingdom, and historical province of the Roman Empire, in the northwest of Asia Minor in modern Turkey)

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
• Polish: Bitynia

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