Moesia

• Mœsia (archaic)

From Latin Moesia, from Ancient Greek Μοισία (Moisía).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmiːsi.ə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /miːʃi.ə/, /ˈmiːʒə/

Moesia

2. (historical) An ancient region and later former Roman province situated in the Balkans, along the south bank of the Danube river, mainly in what is now Bulgaria and Serbia.

• Moesian
• Moesogoth, Moesogothic

• Maoise

From Ancient Greek Μοισῐ́ᾱ (Moisĭ́ā, “land of the Moesi”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmoe̯.si.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛː.s̬i.a]

Moesia f sg (genitive Moesiae); first declension

1. (historical) Moesia (an ancient region and later former Roman province situated in the Balkans, along the south bank of the Danube river, mainly in what is now Bulgaria and Serbia)

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• Moesī
• Moesiacus
• Moesicus

• English: Moesia
• Italian: Mesia
• Portuguese: Moésia, Mésia
• Spanish: Mesia
• → German: Mösia, Mösien
  • ⇒ German: Mösogothen; mösogothisch

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