Moesia
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- Mœsia (archaic)
Etymology[edit]
From Latin Moesia, from Ancient Greek Μοισία (Moisía).
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Moesia
- (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.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
an ancient region and later Roman province situated in the Balkans
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Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek Μοισῐ́ᾱ (Moisíā, “land of the Moesi”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmoe̯.si.a/, [ˈmoe̯s̠iä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈme.si.a/, [ˈmɛːs̬iä]
Proper noun[edit]
Moesia f sg (genitive Moesiae); first declension
- (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[edit]
First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
Case | Singular |
---|---|
Nominative | Moesia |
Genitive | Moesiae |
Dative | Moesiae |
Accusative | Moesiam |
Ablative | Moesiā |
Vocative | Moesia |
Locative | Moesiae |
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- English: Moesia
- Italian: Mesia
- Portuguese: Moésia, Mésia
- Spanish: Mesia
- → German: Mösia, Mösien
- ⇒ German: Mösogothen; mösogothisch
Further reading[edit]
- “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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