Phoenicia
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin Phoenicia, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek Φοινίκη (Phoiníkē).
The word is already found in the Mycenaean Greek ethnonym 𐀡𐀛𐀑𐀍 (po-ni-ki-jo). Ultimately from Egyptian fnḫw,
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‘Canaanites, Syrians’.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Phoenicia
- 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.
- The trading empire of the Phoenicians which spread across most of the eastern Mediterranean Sea as far west as Sicily.
Derived terms
Translations
land of the Phoenicians
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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Φοινίκη (Phoiníkē), from Φοῖνιξ (Phoînix, “Phoenician”), from Egyptian fnḫw (“Syrians”),
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Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /pʰoe̯ˈniː.ki.a/, [pʰoe̯ˈniːkiä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /feˈni.t͡ʃi.a/, [feˈniːt͡ʃiä]
Proper noun
Phoenīcia f sg (genitive Phoenīciae); first declension
Declension
First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
Case | Singular |
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Nominative | Phoenīcia |
Genitive | Phoenīciae |
Dative | Phoenīciae |
Accusative | Phoenīciam |
Ablative | Phoenīciā |
Vocative | Phoenīcia |
Locative | Phoenīciae |
Related terms
Descendants
- English: Phoenicia
References
- “Phoenicia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Phoenicia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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