demetrid
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A descendant of the Seleucid king Demetrius I Soter.
Example Sentences
- "The Seleuco-Demetrids were engaged in constant struggle with the Antiochids[…]; each party found it necessary to guarantee the Jewish privileges."
- "In effect Jonathan became an official of the Seleucid administration and we catch a glimpse of the growing independence of his position in the various tax concessions that the Demetrids were prepared to grant him."
- "Whoever this “Antiochus Epiphanes” was, he was swiftly superseded by another claimant introduced onto the playing board by Euergetes at the invitation of an anti-Demetrid faction in Syria."
Etymology
From Demetrius + -id.