Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to ancient Phoenicia or its people, language, or culture.
- noun A native or inhabitant of ancient Phoenicia.
- noun The Semitic language of ancient Phoenicia.
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- adjective Of, from, or related to the
country orcivilisation ofPhoenicia . - proper noun The
Semitic language spoken by the inhabitants ofPhoenicia . - noun historical An inhabitant of
Phoenicia (a country located on the shores ofNorth Africa and theeastern Mediterranean Sea around the year 1000BCE ). - noun An inhabitant of
Phoenix ,Arizona .
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- noun a member of an ancient Semitic people who dominated trade in the first millennium B.C.
- adjective of or relating to or characteristic of Phoenicia or its inhabitants
- noun the extinct language of an ancient Semitic people who dominated trade in the ancient world
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Examples
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Even the name Punic—which comes from the word Phoenician—was given to them by outsiders.
An Empire of the Mediterranean Adrian Goldsworthy 2011
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There doesn't seem to be any trace of pronominal affixes attached to verbs like we might find in many other languages that surrounded it like the inflection hell endured in Latin, Phoenician and Greek and it opted for a more analytic approach by using independent pronouns, much like in Modern English.
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Fijian, or Fijician, results, by a slight change of letters, from the word Phoenician; and there can be no doubt that the Fijians are descendants of those Phoenicians who, according to
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 Various
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The word Phoenician was printed with an oe ligature.
The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, Jan-Mar, 1890 Various
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And the first letters called Phoenician from Cadmus are four times four, or sixteen; and of those that were afterward added, Palamedes found four, and Simonides four more.
Symposiacs 2004
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And the first letters called Phoenician from Cadmus are four times four, or sixteen; and of those that were afterward added, Palamedes found four, and Simonides four more.
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Isaiah (xix. 18) speaks of the two dialects as identical, and the so-called Phoenician inscriptions that have been preserved to us show that the differences between them were hardly appreciable.
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When the cuneiform syllabary was superseded in Palestine by the so-called Phoenician alphabet we do not know.
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But the land of the Phoenician was a lovely land, which bound him to itself; and wherever he moved his heart still turned to the pleasant abodes of
Lectures and Essays Goldwin Smith 1866
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The word El appears in other northwest Semitic languages such as Phoenician and Aramaic and in Akkadian ilu as an ordinary word for god.
Archive 2009-09-01 bls 2009
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