Bryazon

Latin

Etymology

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Lewis & Short gives *Bryazontis as the genitive, which suggests that this name derives from an Ancient Greek present active participle (compare amethystizōn, horizōn, poppyzōn, etc.). *Βρυάζων (Bruázōn) would be a plausible candidate, being a substantivisation of βρῠάζων (bruázōn, “swelling”, “teeming”), the present active participle of βρῠάζω (bruázō, “I swell”, “I teem”), since many rivers swell and teem; however, is the substantivisation attested?”

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /bryˈaz.zoːn/, [bryˈäz̪d̪͡z̪oːn]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /briˈad.d͡zon/, [briˈäd̪ː͡z̪on]

Proper noun

Bryazōn m sg (genitive Bryazontis); third declension

a river in Bithynia
- AD 77–79, Gaius Plinius Secundus, Naturalis Historia, book V, chapter xliii, § 148:
  sunt in ora amnes Aesius, Bryazon, Plataneus, Areus, Aesyros, Geudos, qui et Chrysorroas, promunturium in quo Megarice oppidum fuit.

Declension

Third-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Bryazōn
genitive	Bryazontis
dative	Bryazontī
accusative	Bryazontem
ablative	Bryazonte
vocative	Bryazōn

References

“Bryazon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Bryazon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 229/3.