Bolbitine

Bolbitine (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to a certain one of the seven ancient distributaries of the river Nile.

From Ancient Greek Βολβιτίνη (Bolbitínē).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /bol.biˈtiː.neː/, [bɔɫ̪bɪˈt̪iːneː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /bol.biˈti.ne/, [bolbiˈt̪iːne]

Bolbitīnē f sg (genitive Bolbitīnēs); first declension

1. A town of Lower Egypt situated at one of the mouths of the Nile, now Rosetta

First-declension noun (Greek-type), with locative, singular only.

• “Bolbitine”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly