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The extinct language of an ancient Semitic people who dominated trade in the ancient world
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phoenician
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Middle French phenicien , from Latin Phoenice , from Greek Phoinike "Phoenicia" (including Carthage), perhaps literally "land of the purple" (i.e., source of purple dye, the earliest use of which was ascribed to the Phoenicians by the Greeks). ...
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Phoenician may refer to: pertaining to Phoenicia , the ancient civilization pertaninig to "Phoenicia", see Phoenicia (disambiguation) The adjectival form for any of the possible meanings of Phoenix A native or resident of Phoenix, Arizona other meanings ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Phoenician \Ph[oe]*ni"cian\, a. Of or pertaining to Ph[oe]nica. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Ph[oe]nica.
Usage examples of phoenician.
The Canaanites, along with the Phoenicians, the Assyrians, the Moabites, the Aramaeans and others recalled the debts to their gods and offered their children as burnt offerings.
One of the Semitic languages, it is related to Aramaic, Phoenician, Syriac, Hebrew, various Ethiopic languages, and the Akkadian of ancient Babylonia and Assyria.
If the towers of Carthage and the sight of the Libyan city charm thee, a Phoenician, why, pray, grudge the Trojans their settling on Ausonian land?
So Perseus sailed away with his Phoenicians, round Hydrea and Sunium, past Marathon and the Attic shore, and through Euripus, and up the long Euboean sea, till he came to the town of Larissa, where the wild Pelasgi dwelt.
The Zu-Vendi alphabet seems, Sir henry says, to be derived, like every other known system of letters, from a Phoenician source, and therefore more remotely still from the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing.
The Massiliotes guarded their independence fiercely, despite the fact that they could not afford to offend Rome, that upstart interloper in the previously Greek and Phoenician world.
Around the altar, a chorus of Syrian damsels performed their lascivious dances to the sound of barbarian music, whilst the gravest personages of the state and army, clothed in long Phoenician tunics, officiated in the meanest functions, with affected zeal and secret indignation.
However, the Greek thought that the atom was the smallest unit of matter and could not be divided, whereas Moschus, the Phoenician, who had acquainted the Greek with this information, asserted that the atom could be divided.
According to Rayer, some writers insist that the affection then existed under the name of the Phoenician disease.
At this point the legend of the Saite and Greek period interpolates a whole chapter, telling how the chest was carried out to sea and cast upon the Phoenician coast near to Byblos.
Beans had advised her that one could learn from foreigners, but when it came to Phoenician sticks and Japanese dildos, one hardly could make a drop of sense of anything they said.
Phoenicians passed through the area which is now Melsetter, to Bechuanaland now known as Boswana, after settling at Zimbabwe and Khami.
The Phoenicians and the Greeks, with unremembered drifts behind them, colonised the Mediterranean.
By blood they were Phoenician and by nationality citizens of the great city port of Gades, which had been founded as a Phoenician colony nearly a thousand years before and still kept its Punic roots and customs very much in the foreground of Gadetanian life.
Roman men and the men of Phoenician Gades who feared the Spanish barbarians far more than they did the Romans.