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English
Etymology
Lacedaemonia + -an
Adjective
Lacedaemonian (comparative more Lacedaemonian, superlative most Lacedaemonian)
- Of or pertaining to Lacedaemonia (Laconia) in Greece.
- spartan (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Translations
of, from or pertaining to Lacedaemonia
Noun
Lacedaemonian (plural Lacedaemonians)
- An inhabitant of Lacedaemonia (Laconia) in Greece.
1579, Plutarke of Chæronea [i.e., Plutarch], “Agis and Cleomenes”, in Thomas North, transl., The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, , London: Richard Field, →OCLC, page 851:[…] yet if in temperance, thriftines, & noble mind (exceeding all their vanities) he could come to reſtore the Lacedæmonians againe vnto equalitie: that then in deede he ſhould be counted a noble king.
Translations
inhabitant of Lacedaemonia