Elymian
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English
Etymology
Noun
Elymian (plural Elymians)
- (historical) Any member of a people who inhabited western Sicily during the Bronze Age and Classical antiquity.
- 2009, Jeff Champion, Pyrrhus of Epirus, Pen and Sword Books, unnumbered page:
- In 580 the Greeks attacked the Carthaginians and Elymians.
- 2011, Irad Malkin, A Small Greek World: Networks in the Ancient Mediterranean, Oxford University Press, page 140:
- To the Elymians and the Phoenicians the change of names could have signified a welcome return to the older name of the colony (Makara = "Herakleia") before the Selinuntines seized it and named it "Minoa".
Adjective
Elymian (comparative more Elymian, superlative most Elymian)
- Of or pertaining to the Elymian people or their society, language, etc.
- 1892, E. A. Freeman, The History of Sicily from the Earliest Times, Volume III: The Athenian and Carthaginian Invasions, Clarendon Press, page 83:
- The exact relations which existed between Carthage and the Elymian towns, those again which existed between the two Elymian towns themselves, are nowhere clearly described.
Proper noun
Elymian
- (linguistics) An extinct, undeciphered and unclassified language spoken by the Elymians.
