Moesia

See also: Moésia and Mœsia

English

Moesia as a Roman province

Alternative forms

• Mœsia (archaic)

Etymology

From Latin Moesia, from Ancient Greek Μοισία (Moisía).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmiːsi.ə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /miːʃi.ə/, /ˈmiːʒə/

Proper noun

Moesia

2. (historical) An ancient region and later former Roman province situated in the Balkans, along the south bank of the Danube River, mainly in what is now Bulgaria and Serbia.

Derived terms

• Moesogoth, Moesogothic

Translations

an ancient region and later Roman province situated in the Balkans

• Albanian: Mëzi f (indefinite), Mëzia f (definite), Moezi f (indefinite), Moezia f (definite)
• Bulgarian: Мизия (Mizija)
• Catalan: Mèsia
• French: Mésie (fr) f
• German: Mösien n, Moesia
• Greek: Μοισία f (Moisía)

  Ancient: Μοισία f (Moisía)

• Hungarian: Moesia
• Italian: Mesia f
• Latin: Moesia f
• Macedonian: Мезија (Mezija)
• Marathi: मीसिया (mīsiyā)
• Middle Persian: 𐭬𐭥𐭮𐭩𐭠𐭩 𐭱𐭲𐭥𐭩 (Mūsyā-šahr), [script needed] (mysyʾ)
• Parthian: 𐭌𐭅𐭎𐭉𐭀 𐭇𐭔𐭕𐭓 (Mūsyā xšahr)
• Portuguese: Mésia f, Moésia f
• Romanian: Moesia f
• Russian: Мёзия (Mjózija)
• Serbo-Croatian: Мезија, Mezija
• Spanish: Mesia f
• Turkish: Moesia

Anagrams

• Maoise

Latin

Moesia (in red) on a map of the provinces of the Roman Empire circa AD 120.

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Μοισῐ́ᾱ (Moisíā, “land of the Moesi”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmoe̯.si.a/, [ˈmoe̯s̠iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈme.si.a/, [ˈmɛːs̬iä]

Proper noun

Moesia f sg (genitive Moesiae); first declension

1. (historical) Moesia (An ancient region and later former Roman province situated in the Balkans, along the south bank of the Danube River, mainly in what is now Bulgaria and Serbia)

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Moesia
Genitive	Moesiae
Dative	Moesiae
Accusative	Moesiam
Ablative	Moesiā
Vocative	Moesia
Locative	Moesiae

Related terms

• Moesī
• Moesiacus
• Moesicus

Descendants

• English: Moesia
• Italian: Mesia
• Portuguese: Moésia, Mésia
• Spanish: Mesia
• → German: Mösia, Mösien
  • ⇒ German: Mösogothen; mösogothisch

Further reading

• “Moesi”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Moesia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.