Biosáintiam

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Bȳzantium, from Ancient Greek Βυζάντιον (Buzántion), from Βύζας (Búzas), the city's legendary founder.

Proper noun

Biosáintiam m (genitive Biosáintiam, nominative plural -)

  1. (historical) Byzantium (an ancient Greek city situated on the Bosporus in modern Turkey, renamed Constantinople in 330 C.E.; modern Istanbul)

Declension

Declension of Biosáintiam (fourth declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative Biosáintiam
vocative a Bhiosáintiam
genitive Biosáintiam
dative Biosáintiam
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an Biosáintiam
genitive an Bhiosáintiam
dative leis an mBiosáintiam
don Bhiosáintiam

Mutation

Mutated forms of Biosáintiam
radical lenition eclipsis
Biosáintiam Bhiosáintiam mBiosáintiam

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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