laconophile
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Alternative form of Laconophile.
noun
Alternative form of Laconophile.
adj
exhibiting Laconophilia, love for or obsession with the Spartans
Example Sentences
- "The point to be made is that, on his own evidence from his description of events in Athens, Thebes, Corinth, and Argos, his description of Leontiades’ faction as laconophile is insufficient; we must ask which Spartan faction Leontiades’ faction favored."
- "This is in a somewhat more serious vein than the extracts from his other poems, and brings out the strongly laconophile tendencies which led ultimately to his assuming leadership of the pro-Spartan quisling regime of the Thirty."
- "Thucydides was well aware of this, even though most of the major manifestations recorded despairingly by the laconophile Xenophon are after his time."
- "I would certainly not want to claim that Thucydides meant the readers of Pericles’ Funeral Oration to recall some particular Laconophile tract, nor, a fortiori, that Demosthenes had a copy of Plato’s dialogues in hand when he composed his speech against Meidias."
- "There is no evidence that he fought with Sparta against Athens, but as he was a notorious Laconophile, he was a suitable choice to lead the oligarchs"
Etymology
From lacono- + -phile.
Inflected Forms
laconophiles (plural)