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Byzas

Byzas proper noun: the legendary founder of Byzantium.

Proper noun

Byzas

  1. (Ancient Greece) The legendary founder of Byzantium.
    • Romulus and Byzas are obviously parallel figures not only in their capacity as founders, but also in their genealogies.2019, Marion Kruse, The Politics of Roman Memory: From the Fall of the Western Empire to the Age of Justinian, University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 49

Origin of Byzas

Learned borrowing from Latin Bȳzās, from Ancient Greek Βύζας (Búzas).

Questions about Byzas

What does Byzas mean?
Byzas means the legendary founder of Byzantium.
What part of speech is Byzas?
Byzas is a proper noun.

Words near Byzas in the dictionary

  1. Byzantinology
  2. Byzantism
  3. Byzantisms
  4. Byzantium
  5. byzants
  6. Byzas
  7. byzen
  8. byzens
  9. byōyomi
  10. BZ
  11. BZ black hole

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