bosporus

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 2.09 in modern English

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A strait or narrow sea between two seas, or a lake and a sea.

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"It has, however, a narrow channel, the straits of Yenikale, which is also a bosporus, called the Cimmerian for distinction, across which, before the earliest historic ages, the Cimmerii, or Cimbri, are said to have been conducted by a heifer[…]"

Latin

the Bosporus (canonical)

Bosporian

Cimerrian Bosporus

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