Byzantium

From Latin Bȳzantium, from Ancient Greek Βῡζᾰ́ντῐον (Būzántion), named after its legendary founder, Byzas.

• IPA^(key): /bɪˈzænti.əm/

Byzantium

1. An ancient Greek city situated on the Bosporus in modern Turkey, named Constantinople in 330 C.E.; modern Istanbul.
2. (historical, by extension) The Byzantine Empire.

Byzantium (uncountable)

1. A dark shade of purple, close to Tyrian purple and palatinate purple

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Borrowed from Latin Bȳzantium, from Ancient Greek Βῡζᾰ́ντῐον (Būzántion).

• IPA^(key): /ˌbiˈzɑn.ti.ʏm/ IPA^(key): /ˌbiˈzɑn.tsi.ʏm/

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• Hyphenation: By‧zan‧ti‧um

Byzantium n

1. (historical) Byzantium (ancient Greek city situated on the Bosporus in modern Turkey, later called Constantinople; modern Istanbul)

• Byzantijn

• Bȳzantion
• Bīzantium (Medieval Latin)

From Ancient Greek Βυζάντιον (Buzántion).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /byːzˈzan.ti.um/, [byːz̪ˈd̪͡z̪än̪t̪iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /bidˈd͡zan.t͡si.um/, [bid̪ˈd̪͡z̪änt̪͡s̪ium]

Bȳzantium n sg (genitive Bȳzantiī or Bȳzantī); second declension

1. Byzantium (ancient Greek city situated on the Bosporus in modern Turkey, later called Constantinople; modern Istanbul)

   Synonyms: Cōnstantīnopolis, Nova Rōma

Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• Asturian: Bizanciu
• Catalan: Bizanci
• French: Byzance
• Galician: Bizancio
• Italian: Bisanzio
• Portuguese: Bizâncio
• Romanian: Bizanț, Bizanțiu
• Spanish: Bizancio

• “Bȳzantĭum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Byzantium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.