Mopsuestia

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. an ancient city in Cilicia on the Pyramus River (now Ceyhan River) located east of ancient Antiochia in Cilicia (present-day Adana, southern Turkey)

Word forms

Mopsuestia

Etymology

From Latin Mopsuestia, from Ancient Greek Μοψουεστία (Mopsouestía), from Μόψου ἑστία (Mópsou hestía, “the house of Mopsus”).

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