Media Magna

Borrowed from Latin Mēdia Magna (literally “Great Media”), itself a calque of Ancient Greek Μεγάλη Μηδία (Megálē Mēdía).

Media Magna

1. (historical) Synonym of Great Media

Calque of Ancient Greek Μεγάλη Μηδία (Megálē Mēdía).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmeː.di.a ˈmaŋ.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛː.di.a ˈmaɲ.ɲa]

Mēdia Magna f sg (genitive Mēdiae Magnae); first declension

1. (historical) Great Media (the larger, southern portion of ancient Media following the latter’s partition by the Macedonians, the smaller northern portion being Atropatian Media, also known as Atropatia or Atropatene)
   • 1818, Frans Antoni Bosse, Geographiae antiquae compendium, page 80:

     [...] eratque divisa in Mediam Atropatenen, et Mediam Magnam.

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First-declension noun with a first-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• → English: Media Magna