Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

phœnician

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: phœni-cian
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Archaic spelling of Phoenician.

Archaic

noun

Archaic spelling of Phoenician.

Archaic

Example Sentences

"1833, Joaquín Lorenzo Villanueva, Phœnician Ireland."
""What diverts me the most," continued Sir George, " is, Ulysses being always called 'the much enduring man.' After all his ten years of wandering are past, pleasantly enough, the greater portion of them being spent with Circe and Calypso—to be sure, it was rather tiresome staying so long with the last—how he must have enjoyed his flirtation with the Phœnician princess!""
"Plutarch, and others ascribe its introduction to the West to Cadmus—a Phœnician who founded Thebes, B.C. 1500."

Usage

Archaic

Inflected Forms

Phœnicians (plural)

Questions

What does phœnician mean?: Archaic spelling of Phoenician.

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