Leptis Magna

Leptis Magna f sg (genitive Leptis Magnae); third declension

Leptis Magnae (genitive)
Leptis Magna (nominative singular)
Leptis Magnae (genitive singular)
Leptī Magnae (dative singular)
Leptem Magnam (accusative singular)
Lepte Magnā (ablative singular)
Leptis Magna (singular vocative)
Leptī Magnae (locative singular)
Lepte Magnae (locative singular)

Calque of Ancient Greek Λέπτις μεγάλη (Léptis megálē), from either Punic 𐤋𐤐𐤒 (lpq) or Punic 𐤋𐤐𐤒𐤉 (lpqy), hypothesized to derive from Proto-Semitic [Term?] (“construction”); compare Arabic لفقة (“to invent, fabricate, or assemble”).

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Λέπτις μεγάλη

A former city in Libya, one of the cities of Tripoli that did not survive to modern times.


Zidacow

Zidacow in Pokutia, ciuitas lignea, in planicie ad Striy fluuium ſita

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:

Zhydachiv in Pokuttia, a wooden city located on the river Stryi on a plain

Zhydachiv (a city in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine)


Grodek

Grodek ciuitas circumſepta, vna cum arce in planicie ſtagnis circumuallata, à Leopoli 4. miliar.

Horodok, a walled city, one with a citadel on a plain surrounded by lakes, 4 miles from Lviv.

Horodok (a city in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine)


Czernigow

Czernigow, arx & oppidum 30. miliaribus à Kiouia diſtat.

1578, Alexander Guagnini, Sarmatiae Europeae descriptio, quae Regnum Poloniae, Lituaniam, Samogitiam, Russiam, Masouiam, Prussiam, Pomeraniam, Liuoniam, et Moschouiae, 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], Omnium regionum, Moschouiae Monarchae subiectarum, Tartarorumque Campestrium, Arcium, Ciuitatum praecipuarum, Morum denique gentis, Religionis, et consuetudinis vitae sufficiens, et vera descriptio [A sufficient and true description of all the regions subject to the monarch of Muscovy, the fields of the Tartars, the fortresses, particular cities, and then the customs of the people, the religion, and customs of life], folio 6v:

Chernihiv, fortress and town, stands 30 miles from Kyiv.

Chernihiv (a city in Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine)


Halicia

la-proper noun

Halicia f sg (genitive Haliciae); first declension

Haliciae (genitive)
Halicia (nominative singular)
Haliciae (genitive singular)
Haliciae (dative singular)
Haliciam (accusative singular)
Haliciā (ablative singular)
Halicia (singular vocative)

Borrowed from Ukrainian Га́лич (Hályč), from Old East Slavic Галичь (Galičĭ). Doublet of Galicia.

Halicia ciuitas lignea ampliſsima antiquitus condita

Halych, a most esteemed wooden city founded in antiquity

(New Latin) Halych (a city in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine)


Novogrodia Magna

Novogrodia Magna f sg (genitive Novogrodiae Magnae); first declension

Novogrodiae Magnae (genitive)
Novogrodia Magna (nominative singular)
Novogrodiae Magnae (genitive singular)
Novogrodiae Magnae (dative singular)
Novogrodiam Magnam (accusative singular)
Novogrodiā Magnā (ablative singular)
Novogrodia Magna (singular vocative)

Calque of Polish Nowogród Wielki (“Great Novgorod”).

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NOuogrodiæ magnæ Principatus amplißimus olim, ex totius Rußiæ Ducatibus erat.

1578, Alexander Guagnini, Sarmatiae Europeae descriptio, quae Regnum Poloniae, Lituaniam, Samogitiam, Russiam, Masouiam, Prussiam, Pomeraniam, Liuoniam, et Moschouiae, 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], Omnium regionum, Moschouiae Monarchae subiectarum, Tartarorumque Campestrium, Arcium, Ciuitatum praecipuarum, Morum denique gentis, Religionis, et consuetudinis vitae sufficiens, et vera descriptio [A sufficient and true description of all the regions subject to the monarch of Muscovy, the fields of the Tartars, the fortresses, particular cities, and then the customs of the people, the religion, and habits of life], folio 8v:

The Principality of Veliky Novgorod was once the most esteemed of the duchies of the whole of Rus'.

Veliky Novgorod (a city in Novgorod Oblast, Russia)


Iendum

la-proper noun

Iendum n sg (genitive Iendī); second declension

Iendī (genitive)
Iendum (nominative singular)
Iendī (genitive singular)
Iendō (dative singular)
Iendum (accusative singular)
Iendō (ablative singular)
Iendum (singular vocative)

[ˈi̯ɛn̪d̪ʊ̃ˑ]

(New Latin, historical) Edo (former name of Tokyo)