Mesembria

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Μεσημβρία (Mesēmbría).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /meˈseːm.bri.a/, [mɛˈs̠eːmbriä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /meˈsem.bri.a/, [meˈs̬ɛmbriä]

Proper noun

Mesēmbria f sg (genitive Mesēmbriae); first declension

1. a city of Thrace situated on the Black Sea, now Nesebar in Bulgaria

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Mesēmbria
genitive	Mesēmbriae
dative	Mesēmbriae
accusative	Mesēmbriam
ablative	Mesēmbriā
vocative	Mesēmbria
locative	Mesēmbriae

Related terms

• Mesēmbriacus

References

• “Mesembria”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Mesembria in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Mesembria”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly