Bithynia

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Bithynia f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Bithyniidae – certain freshwater snails.

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Spiralia – superphylum; Mollusca – phylum; Gastropoda – class; Caenogastropoda - subclass; Littorinimorpha - order; Truncatelloidea - superfamily; Bithyniidae - family

• (genus): Bithynia tentaculata - type species

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From the Latin Bīthȳnia, from the Ancient Greek Βῑθῡνῐ́ᾱ (Bīthūnĭ́ā).

• IPA^(key): /bɪˈθɪni.ə/

Bithynia

2. (historical) A geographic region, ancient kingdom, and historical province of the Roman Empire in the northwest of Asia Minor in modern Turkey.

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From the Ancient Greek Βῑθῡνῐ́ᾱ (Bīthūnĭ́ā).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [biːˈtʰyː.ni.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [biˈt̪iː.ni.a]

Bīthȳnia f sg (genitive Bīthȳniae); first declension

1. (historical) Bithynia (a geographic region, ancient kingdom, and historical province of the Roman Empire in the northwest of Asia Minor in modern Turkey)

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• English: Bithynia
• Polish: Bitynia

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

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