Byzas

Learned borrowing from Latin Bȳzās, from Ancient Greek Βύζας (Búzas).

Byzas

1. (Ancient Greece) The legendary founder of Byzantium.
   • 2019, Marion Kruse, The Politics of Roman Memory: From the Fall of the Western Empire to the Age of Justinian, University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 49:

     Romulus and Byzas are obviously parallel figures not only in their capacity as founders, but also in their genealogies.

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Βύζας (Búzas); from a Thracian *būzas, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuǵ-.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbyːz.zaːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbid̪.d̪͡z̪as]

Bȳzās m sg (genitive Bȳzae); first declension

1. Byzas (legendary founder of Byzantium)

First-declension noun (masculine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ās), singular only.

• Bȳzantium
• bȳzantīnus

• → English: Byzas (learned)

• Byzās in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Bȳzās” in volume 2, column 2270, line 14 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present