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Webster 1913 Edition

Bosporus

Bos′po-rus

(bŏs′pō̍-rŭs)
,
Noun.
[L.]
A strait or narrow sea between two seas, or a lake and a seas;
as, the
Bosporus
(formerly the Thracian Bosporus) or Strait of Constantinople, between the Black Sea and Sea of Marmora; the Cimmerian
Bosporus
, between the Black Sea and Sea of Azof
.
[Written also
Bosphorus
.]

Webster 1828 Edition

Bosporus

BOS'PORUS

,
Noun.
[Gr. an ox, and a passage.]
A narrow sea or a strait, between two seas or between a sea and a lake, so called, it is supposed, as being an ox-passage, a strait over which an ox may swim. So our northern ancestors called a strait, a sound, that is, a swim. The term Bosporus has been particularly applied to the strait between the Propontis and the Euxine, called the Thracian Bosporus; and to the strait of Caffa, called the Cimmerian Bosporus, which connects the Palus Maeotis or sea of Azof, with the Euxine.

Definition 2024

Bosporus

Bosporus

See also: bosporus

English

Proper noun

the Bosporus

  1. Alternative spelling of Bosphorus

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Βόσπορος ‎(Bósporos).

Proper noun

Bosporus m ‎(genitive Bosporī); second declension

  1. Any of multiple straits, chiefly the one known as the Bosphorus in English.

Derived terms

Declension

Second declension.

Case Singular
nominative Bosporus
genitive Bosporī
dative Bosporō
accusative Bosporum
ablative Bosporō
vocative Bospore

References

bosporus

bosporus

See also: Bosporus

English

Noun

bosporus

  1. A strait or narrow sea between two seas, or a lake and a sea.
    • 1867, The new American cyclopaedia (volume 5, page 53)
      It has, however, a narrow channel, the straits of Yenikale, which is also a bosporus, called the Cimmerian for distinction, across which, before the earliest historic ages, the Cimmerii, or Cimbri, are said to have been conducted by a heifer […]

Etymology

Latin

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