Bosphorus

English
The Bosphorus from space.
The Turkish Straits.

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Etymology

From medieval Latin Bosphorus, from Ancient Greek Βόσπορος (Bósporos).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

the Bosphorus

  1. The narrow strait beside Istanbul, Turkey connecting the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara, the northern end of the Turkish Straits connecting the Black Sea with the Aegean and Mediterranean.
    • 1950 July, J. C. Mertens, “By the "Taurus Express" to Baghdad”, in Railway Magazine, page 435:
      The 20-min. crossing of the Bosphorus by ferry steamer from the Golden Horn, the busy river-fed harbour that divides old and new Istanbul on the European side of the Bosphorus, was a pleasure in itself.

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Latin

Proper noun

Bosphorus m sg (genitive Bosphorī); second declension

  1. Alternative form of Bosporus

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Bosphorus
Genitive Bosphorī
Dative Bosphorō
Accusative Bosphorum
Ablative Bosphorō
Vocative Bosphore

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