Μεσοποταμίαν (Mesopotamian)

Μεσοποταμίαν is an Ancient Greek form of Μεσοποταμία, meaning “Mesopotamia — Mesopotamia”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun or adjective.

It can also be a form of μεσοποτάμιος, “between rivers; in the middle of the river”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun or adjective.

Found 48 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Lucullus 21.4: … ουμένης ἐλπίδος ἔθνη πολλὰ κατεστρέψατο, καὶ τὴν Πάρθων, ὡς ἄλλος οὐδεὶς, δύναμιν ἐταπείνωσεν, Ἑλλήνων δὲ τὴν Μεσοποταμίαν ἐνέπλησε, πολλοὺς μὲν ἐκ Κιλικίας, πολλοὺς δʼ ἐκ Καππαδοκίας ἀνασπάστους κατοικίζων. ἐκίνησε δʼ ἐξ ἠθῶν καὶ Ἄ …

Strabo, Geography 3.1.6: … , ἀλλʼ ὁ μὲν ἐπʼ εὐθείας εἰς τὴν ἑσπέραν ἐκδίδωσι πολὺ μείζων ὢν θατέρου, ὁ δʼ Ἄνας πρὸς νότον ἐπιστρέφει τὴν μεσοποταμίαν ἀφορίζων, ἣν Κελτικοὶ νέμονται τὸ πλέον καὶ τῶν Λυσιτανῶν τινὲς ἐκ τῆς περαίας τοῦ Τάγου μετοικισθέντες ὑπὸ Ῥ …

All forms of Μεσοποταμία (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.