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Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin Phoenīcia, from Ancient Greek Φοινίκη (Phoiníkē), from φοίνικι (phoíniki, “Phoenicians”), from Mycenaean Greek 𐀡𐀛𐀑𐀍 (po-ni-ki-jo), from Egyptian fnḫw (fenhku, “Canaanites, Syrians”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /feˈni.si.ɐ/ , (faster pronunciation) /feˈni.sjɐ/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /feˈni.si.ɐ/ , (faster pronunciation) /feˈni.sjɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /feˈni.si.a/ , (faster pronunciation) /feˈni.sja/
Proper noun
Fenícia f
- Phoenicia (an ancient civilisation in Levant)
Slovak
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Fenícia f (genitive singular Fenície, declension pattern of ulica)
- Phoenicia (a group of ancient city states situated on the coast of present day Syria and Lebanon)
Declension
Further reading
- “Fenícia”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024