Byzas

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Βύζας (Búzas)

Proper noun

Byzas

1. (Ancient Greece) The legendary founder of Byzantium.
   • 2019, Marion Kruse, The Politics of Roman Memory: From the Fall of the Western Empire to the Age of Justinian, University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 49:

     Romulus and Byzas are obviously parallel figures not only in their capacity as founders, but also in their genealogies.

Further reading

• Byzas on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Βύζας (Búzas); of Thracian origin.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbyːz.zaːs/, [ˈbyːz̪d̪͡z̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbid.d͡zas/, [ˈbid̪ː͡z̪äs]

Proper noun

Bȳzās m sg (genitive Bȳzae); first declension

1. Byzas (legendary founder of Byzantium).

Declension

First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ās), singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Bȳzās
Genitive	Bȳzae
Dative	Bȳzae
Accusative	Bȳzān Bȳzam
Ablative	Bȳzā
Vocative	Bȳzā

Related terms

• Bȳzantium
• bȳzantīnus

References

• Byzās in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Bȳzās” in volume 2, column 2270, line 14 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present