kyrene
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.15 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Example Sentences
- "To resume then, it would seem that both the pinakes, the fabrics of Naukratis and Daphnae, and the fabrie of Kyrene share in common with the Protokorinthian ware certain relations to the metal bowls of Phoenician origin."
- "Sokrates remembered with pleasure an earlier visit by Theodoros, the mathematician who now lived in Kyrene, but thought more of the man than his subject."
- "Aye, upon the horizon was Magas, Berenike Alpha’s son, the young man whom Ptolemy Soter had sent as Strategos, or Governor, to Kyrene thirty years before."
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Κυρήνη (Kurḗnē).