Boliana

Latin

Etymology

Compare Serbo-Croatian Bojana / Бојана, Albanian Bunë.

Proper noun

Boliana f sg (genitive Bolianae); first declension (New Latin)

  1. Buna (river in modern Albania and Montenegro)
    • 1556, Coriolano Cippico, “De rebus Venetis”, in De origine et rebus gestis turcorum, Basel: J. Oporinus, page 363:
      Ex parte occidentis oppidi est lacus, octuaginta milia passum in circuito patens, nomen ab oppido sumit, et lacus Scodrae appellatur, ex quo fluvius exit, qui praeterfluens radices montis in quo oppidum situm est, alluit. Hunc fluvium incolae Boliana vocant.
      On the western part of the city is a lake, extending eighty miles in circumference, [which] takes the name from the city, and is called lake of Scodra, from which flows a river, which flowing past the feet of the mountain on which the city is situated, bathes it. The inhabitants call this river Boliana.

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

singular
nominative Boliana
genitive Bolianae
dative Bolianae
accusative Bolianam
ablative Bolianā
vocative Boliana
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