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Dyma
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Latin
Proper noun
Dyma<1>
la Dȳmē
la 1694 Stephanus Byzantinus De urbibus 313 https://books.google.com/books?id=UIZBAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA313 Dyma, urbs Achaïæ, ultima ad occidentem, quare & Callimachus in Epigrammatibus canit: Dymam profectum Achaïcam. Ipsa quoque regio antiquitus Dyma appellabatur, urbs vero Stratus. Postea vero etiam cum urbs, tum regio Dyma vocatæ sunt. Dyma, a city of Achaia, the westernmost one, which is why Callimachus also sings in his Epigrams: having departed for Achaic Dyma. Formerly, the region itself was also called Dyma, while the city was called Stratus. Later, however, both the city and the region were called Dyma.
Declension
Dyma<1.loc>
Descendants
en Dyma 1
fr Dyme