proto-mediterranean
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.16 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of a specific human cranial type, associated with populations in the Mediterranean region during the Mesolithic period.
adj
Alternative form of Proto-Mediterranean.
Example Sentences
- "It is clear, from what we have said, that the greatest purity of the Leucodermic type is to be found among the Nordics; because only the southern branch, on its road through Mediterranean Africa or in the Mediterranean islands themselves, met that strongly hybrid population which may be called Proto-Mediterranean, which must have been derived from the crossing of the Crô-Magnon with the Combe-Capelle and the Negroids of Grimaldi."
Etymology
From proto- + Mediterranean.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: proto