sivas

The story

1. Latin · derived fromAugustus
2. Ancient Greek · derived fromΣεβαστός
3. Medieval Greek · derived fromΣεβάστεια
4. Ottoman Turkish · borrowed fromسیواس
5. Turkish · borrowed fromSivas
6. English todaySivas

From Turkish Sivas and Ottoman Turkish سیواس (Sivas), from Medieval Greek Σεβάστεια (Sebásteia), from Ancient Greek Σεβαστός (Sebastós) + -εια (-eia, “-ia: forming place names”), from σεβαστός (sebastós, “venerable, august”) used as a calque of Latin Augustus. Doublet of Sebastia.

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