Byzance
French
editEtymology
editFrom Middle French Byzance, from Latin Byzantium, borrowed from Ancient Greek Βυζάντιον (Buzántion).
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editByzance f
- (historical) Byzantium (an ancient Greek city situated on the Bosporus in modern Turkey, renamed Constantinople in 330 C.E.; modern Istanbul)
- Synonym: Constantinople
- (figurative) opulence
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editDescendants
edit- → Persian: بیزانس (bizâns)
See also
editMiddle French
editEtymology
editFrom Latin Byzantium, borrowed from Ancient Greek Βυζάντιον (Buzántion).
Proper noun
editByzance f
- (historical) Byzantium (an ancient Greek city situated on the Bosporus in modern Turkey, renamed Constantinople in 330 C.E.; modern Istanbul)
- 1575, Loys Le Roy, De la vicissitude ou variete des choses en l’univers, folio 74r:
- Quand ce Conſtantin fils de Conſtance & ſon ſucceſſeur en l’Empire ſe veit ſeul paiſible monarque, il aduiſa pour perpetuer ſa memoire, & la rendre plus celebre d’edifier ſur le detroict de la mer à l’extremité de l’Europe plus prochaine de l’Aſie, au lieu où eſtoit parauant Byzance vne grande ville pareille en toutes choſes à Rome, qu’il orna de meſmes priuileges, libertez, dignitez, honneurs: afin que par la force d’elle l’Empire vers l’orient fuſt ſouſtenu contre les Perſes, dont la puiſſance eſtoit alors grãde & formidable, comme en l’Occident il eſtoit maintenu contre les Germains par le moyen de l’anciẽne Rome. Il voulut que ces deux villes fuſſent reputees pour vne, et que les citoyens de l’vne comme de l’autre ſeroient pareillemẽt eſleuz conſuls dont l’vn reſideroit icy, l’autre là.
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Descendants
edit- French: Byzance
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