Byzas

== English == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin Bȳzās, from Ancient Greek Βύζας (Búzas). === Proper noun === Byzas (Ancient Greece) The legendary founder of Byzantium. == Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek Βύζας (Búzas); from a Thracian *būzas, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuǵ-. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈbyːz.zaːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈbid.d͡zas] === Proper noun === Bȳzās m sg (genitive Bȳzae); first declension Byzas (legendary founder of Byzantium) ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun (masculine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ās), singular only. ==== Related terms ==== Bȳzantium bȳzantīnus ==== Descendants ==== → English: Byzas (learned) === Further reading === “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