Sniatin
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Polish Śniatyn, from Old East Slavic Снѧтинъ (Snętinŭ), from Къснѧтинъ (Kŭsnętinŭ), from Byzantine Greek Κωνσταντῖνος (Kōnstantînos), from Latin Constantinus.
Proper noun
[edit]Sniatin ? sg (indeclinable)
- Sniatyn (a town in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine)
- 1581, Alexander Guagnini, Sarmatiae Europeae descriptio, quae regnum Poloniae, Lituaniam, Samogitiam, Russiam, Massoviam, Prussiam, Pomeraniam, Livoniam, et Moschoviae, Tartariaeque partem complectitur [Description of European Sarmatia, Which Encompasses the Kingdom of Poland, Lithuania, Samogitia, Russia, Mazovia, Prussia, Pomerania, Livonia, Muscovy, and Part of Tartary], folio 39v:
- Sniatin ciuitas lignea ſeptis circumdata, confinis Moldauiæ, cum Prud fluuius præterlabitur, à Leopoli 12. mil. diſtat.
- Sniatyn, a wooden city surrounded by fences, on the border of Moldavia, while the river Prut slides past; it stands 12 miles from Lviv.
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