Βενέτζια
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Variant of Ἐνετία (Enetía) under influence from Latin Venetia (“land of the Veneti; Venice”), from Venetī + -ia, of uncertain but presumably Venetic origin.
Pronunciation
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /veˈned.zi.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /veˈned.zi.a/
Proper noun
Βενέτζιᾰ • (Benétziă) f (genitive Βενετζίᾱς); first declension
- (Byzantine) synonym of Ἐνετία (Enetía), Venice (a port city in northeastern Italy; former capital of an independent republic)
- Chron. 209.
- Mal. 176.
Inflection
Related terms
- Βενετικός (Benetikós)
References
- Sophocles, Evangelinos Apostolides (1900) “Βενέτζια”, in Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods (from B. C. 146 to A. D. 1100), New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 305