Moesia
See also: Moésia and Mœsia
English
Alternative forms
- Mœsia (archaic)
Etymology
From Latin Moesia, from Ancient Greek Μοισία (Moisía).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmiːsi.ə/
- (US) IPA(key): /miːʃi.ə/, /ˈmiːʒə/
Proper noun
Moesia
- (geography, historical) An ancient region and later Roman province situated in the Balkans, along the south bank of the Danube River, mainly in what is now Bulgaria and Serbia.
Derived terms
- Moesogoth, Moesogothic
Translations
an ancient region and later Roman province situated in the Balkans
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Anagrams
- Maoise
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Μοισῐ́ᾱ (Moisíā, “land of the Moesi”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmoe̯.si.a/, [ˈmoe̯s̠iä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈme.si.a/, [ˈmɛːs̬iä]
Proper noun
Moesia f sg (genitive Moesiae); first declension
- Moesia
Declension
First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
Case | Singular |
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Nominative | Moesia |
Genitive | Moesiae |
Dative | Moesiae |
Accusative | Moesiam |
Ablative | Moesiā |
Vocative | Moesia |
Locative | Moesiae |
Related terms
- Moesī
- Moesiacus
- Moesicus
Descendants
- English: Moesia
- Italian: Mesia
- Portuguese: Moésia, Mésia
- Spanish: Mesia
- → German: Mösia, Mösien
- ⇒ German: Mösogothen; mösogothisch
Further reading
- “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