Messenia

• Messinia

Messenia

1. A regional unit in the south-western Peloponnese, Greece, which has its modern capital at Kalamata. The original capital was at Messene.

• Eisemans, Misesean, nemesias, seminase

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Μεσσηνία (Messēnía).

Messēnia f sg (genitive Messēniae); first declension

1. Messenia

First-declension noun, singular only.

• “Messene”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Messenia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Messenia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly