Phoenicia

See also: phoenicia and Phœnicia

English

Phoenicia

Alternative forms

• Phenicia (nonstandard)
• Phœnicia (archaic)

Etymology

Latin, from Phœnice (“Phoenicia”), learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Φοινίκη (Phoiníkē), from φοίνικι (phoíniki, “Phoenicians”), from Mycenaean Greek [script needed] (po-ni-ki-jo), from Egyptian fnḫw (fenhku) [Egyptian hieroglyphic needed] ‘Canaanites, Syrians’.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fəˈnɪʃɪə/, /fəˈniːʃɪə/, /fəˈnɪʃə/

Proper noun

Phoenicia

1. the land of city states of the Phoenicians which around 1000 BC was situated on the coast of present day Syria and Lebanon, and included the cities of Tyre and Sidon.
2. the trading empire of the Phoenicians which spread across most of the eastern Mediterranean Sea as far west as Sicily.

Derived terms

• Phoenician

Translations

land of the Phoenicians

• Arabic: فِينِيقِيَا f (fīnīqiyā)
• Armenian: Փյունիկիա (Pʿyunikia)
• Bengali: ফিনিশিয়া (phiniśiya), ফোনিশিয়া (phoniśiya)
• Czech: Fénicie f
• Danish: Fønikien
• Dutch: Fenicië (nl)
• Esperanto: Fenicio
• Faroese: Fønikia
• Finnish: Foinikia
• German: Phönizien (de)
• Hawaiian: Poinikia
• Hungarian: Fönícia (hu)
• Irish: an Fhéiníc f

• Italian: Fenicia (it) f
• Japanese: フェニキア (Fenikia)
• Latin: Phoenīcia (la) f
• Mandarin: 腓尼基 (zh) (féiníjī)
• Polish: Fenicja (pl) f
• Portuguese: Fenícia f
• Romanian: Fenicia f
• Russian: Финики́я (ru) f (Finikíja)
• Slovak: Fenícia f
• Spanish: Fenicia (es)
• Swedish: Fenicien n
• Turkish: Fenike (tr)
• Volapük: Fönikiyän (vo)

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Latin

Alternative forms

• Phoenīcē

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Φοινίκη (Phoiníkē), from Φοῖνιξ (Phoînix, “Phoenician”), from Egyptian [Egyptian hieroglyphic needed] (Fenkhw, “Syrians”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pʰoe̯ˈniː.ki.a/
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fɛˈni.t͡ʃi.a/, [fɛˈniː.t͡ʃi̯a], [fɛˈniː.t͡ʃa]

Proper noun

Phoenīcia f (genitive Phoenīciae); first declension

1. Phoenicia

Inflection

First declension, with locative.

Case	Singular
nominative	Phoenīcia
genitive	Phoenīciae
dative	Phoenīciae
accusative	Phoenīciam
ablative	Phoenīciā
vocative	Phoenīcia
locative	Phoenīciae

Related terms

• Phoenīces
• phoenīcius
• Phoenissus
• Phoenix

Descendants

• English: Phoenicia

References

• Phoenicia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Phoenicia” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)