Byzantium

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bɪˈzænti.əm/

Noun

Byzantium (uncountable)

(color) A dark shade of purple, close to Tyrian purple and palatinate purple
byzantium:

Proper noun

Byzantium

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

Related terms

bezant
Bezant
Byzant
Byzantine

Translations

ancient Greek city

Albanian: Bizant m (indefinite), Bizanti m (definite)
Arabic: بِيزَنْطَة‎ f (bīzanṭa)
Armenian: Բյուզանդիոն (Byuzandion)
Azerbaijani: Bizantion
Basque: Bizantzio
Belarusian: Віза́нтый m (Vizántyj)
Bengali: বাইজান্টিয়াম (baijanṭiẏam)
Bulgarian: Византион m (Vizantion)
Catalan: Bizanci
Chinese:
Cantonese: 拜占庭 (baai³ zim¹ ting⁴)
Mandarin: 拜占庭 (zh) (Bàizhàntíng)
Coptic: ⲃⲩⲍⲁⲛⲧⲓⲟⲛ (buzantion)
Czech: Byzantion m
Danish: Byzans n
Dutch: Byzantion n
Esperanto: Bizanco
Estonian: Bütsants
Finnish: Byzantion (fi)
French: Byzance (fr) f
Galician: Bizancio (gl)
Georgian: ბიზანტია (bizanṭia)
German: Byzantion n
Greek: Βυζάντιο (el) n (Vyzántio)
Ancient: Βυζάντιον n (Buzántion)
Hebrew: בִּיזַנְטְיוֹן‎ f (bizantyón)
Hindi: बाईज़ान्टियाम m (bāīzānṭiyām)
Hungarian: Bizánc (hu)
Indonesian: Byzantium
Irish: Biosáintiam m
Italian: Bisanzio (it) m
Japanese: ビュザンティオン (Byuzantion)
Korean: 비잔티온 (Bijantion), 비잔티움 (Bijantium)
Latin: Bȳzantium (la) n
Latvian: Bizantija f
Lithuanian: Bizantija f
Low German: Byzanz
Macedonian: Византија f (Vizantija), Византион m (Vizantion)
Malay: Byzantium
Middle English: please add this translation if you can
Middle Persian: 𐭧𐭫𐭥𐭬‎ (ḥlʿm /hrōm/)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: Визант (Vizant)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Bysants (no) n
Old Norse: Miklagarðr m
Old Portuguese: Besanço
Persian: بیزانس‎ (fa) (bizâns), روم‎ (fa) (rum), بوزنطین‎ (buzantin), بوزنطه‎ (buzante)
Polish: Bizancjum (pl) n
Portuguese: Bizâncio (pt)
Romanian: Bizanț n
Russian: Виза́нтий (ru) m (Vizántij)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Бѝзант m, Вѝзант m
Roman: Bìzant (sh) m, Vìzant m
Slovak: Byzantion m
Slovene: Bizanc (sl) m
Spanish: Bizancio (es) m
Swedish: Byzantion n
Thai: บิแซนเทียม
Turkish: Bizantion
Ukrainian: Віза́нтій m (Vizántij)
Uzbek: Vizantiy
Welsh: Bysantiwm m

Byzantine Empire — see Byzantine Empire

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˌbiˈzɑn.ti.ʏm/ IPA^(key): /ˌbiˈzɑn.tsi.ʏm/
Audio (file)
Hyphenation: By‧zan‧ti‧um

Proper noun

Byzantium n

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

Derived terms

Byzantijn

Latin

Alternative forms

Bȳzantion
Bīzantium (medieval)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Βυζάντιον (Buzántion).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /byːzˈzan.ti.um/, [byːz̪ˈd̪͡z̪än̪t̪iʊ̃ˑ]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /bidˈd͡zan.t͡si.um/, [bid̪ˈd̪͡z̪änt̪͡s̪ium]

Proper noun

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

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

Declension

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

Case	Singular
Nominative	Bȳzantium
Genitive	Bȳzantiī Bȳzantī¹
Dative	Bȳzantiō
Accusative	Bȳzantium
Ablative	Bȳzantiō
Vocative	Bȳzantium
Locative	Bȳzantiī

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

Synonyms

Cōnstantīnopolis

References

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