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Date: 1500-1600
Language: Late Latin
Origin: Byzantinus, from Byzantium Turkish city (now Istanbul), from Greek Byzantion

Byzantine

 adjective
     
By‧zan‧tine
1 also byzantine complicated and difficult to understand:
the byzantine complexity of our tax laws
2 relating to the Byzantines or the Byzantine empire:
a 5th century Byzantine church
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