elymian
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any member of a people who inhabited western Sicily during the Bronze Age and Classical antiquity.
adj
Of or pertaining to the Elymian people or their society, language, etc.
name
An extinct, undeciphered and unclassified language spoken by the Elymians.
Example Sentences
- "In 580 the Greeks attacked the Carthaginians and Elymians."
- "To the Elymians and the Phoenicians the change of names could have signified a welcome return to the older name of the colony (Makara = "Herakleia") before the Selinuntines seized it and named it "Minoa"."
- "The exact relations which existed between Carthage and the Elymian towns, those again which existed between the two Elymian towns themselves, are nowhere clearly described."
- "The chance find of a dump at Segesta has yielded more Elymian inscriptions (mostly single words, inscribed in Greek letters on potsherds) than all other sites combined."
Etymology
From Elymi + -an.