Phoenicia

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See also: phoenicia and Phœnicia

English

Phoenicia

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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

  • 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.

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Latin

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek Φοινίκη (Phoiníkē), from Φοῖνιξ (Phoînix, “Phoenician”), from Egyptian fnḫw (“Phoenicians”),

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Pronunciation

Proper noun

Phoenīcia f sg (genitive Phoenīciae); first declension

  1. Phoenicia (an ancient region in coastal Western Asia, in modern Syria and Lebanon)

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

singular
nominative Phoenīcia
genitive Phoenīciae
dative Phoenīciae
accusative Phoenīciam
ablative Phoenīciā
vocative Phoenīcia
locative Phoenīciae

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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