Phocaea

• Phocea, Phocæa

From Latin Phōcaea, from Ancient Greek Φώκαια (Phṓkaia).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /fəʊˈsiːə/

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Phocaea

2. (Ancient Greece) An ancient Ionian Greek city on the western coast of Anatolia, now located in İzmir Province, Turkey; modern Foça.
   • 1837, Edward Lytton Bulwer [i.e., Edward Bulwer-Lytton], Athens: Its Rise and Fall: […], volume I, London: Saunders and Otley, […], →OCLC, book I, page 162:

     Theirs were the cities of Myus, and Priene, Colophon, Ephesus, Lebedus, Teos, Clazomene, Erythræ, Phocæa, and Miletus:—in the islands of Samos and Chios were two cities of the same name as the isles themselves.

3. (astronomy) 25 Phocaea, a main belt asteroid.

• (astronomy): 25 Phocaea, ㉕

• Phocaean

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Φώκαια (Phṓkaia).

Phōcaea f sg (genitive Phōcaeae); first declension

1. (Ancient Greece) Phocaea (an ancient Ionian Greek city on the western coast of Anatolia, now located in İzmir Province, Turkey; modern Foça)

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• Catalan: Phocea
• English: Phocaea
• French: Phocée
• Italian: Focea
• Spanish: Focea

• Phocaea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Phocaea”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly