Phocaean

See also: Phocæan

English

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Etymology

From Phocaea +‎ -an.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /fəʊˈsiːən/
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Noun

Phocaean (plural Phocaeans)

  1. (Ancient Greece) An inhabitant of Phocaea.
    • 1837, Edward Lytton Bulwer [i.e., Edward Bulwer-Lytton], Athens: Its Rise and Fall: […], volume I, London: Saunders and Otley, […], →OCLC, book I, page 451:
      The discipline of the navy was not equal to the valour of the enterprise; Dionysius, commander of the Phocæans, attempted, perhaps too rigorously, to enforce it;—jealousy and disgust broke out among the troops […] .

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Adjective

Phocaean (comparative more Phocaean, superlative most Phocaean)

  1. (Ancient Greece) Of or pertaining to Phocaea or its inhabitants.

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