English

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

Proper noun

Bithynia

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

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek Βῑθῡνῐ́ᾱ ‎(Bīthūníā).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /biːˈtʰyː.ni.a/

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.

Derived terms

Descendants

• English: Bithynia

References

• Bīthȳnĭa in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Bithynia”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.