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Etymology. Being a society of independent city states, the Phoenicians apparently did not have a term to denote the land of Phoenicia as a whole; instead, demonyms were often derived from the name of the city an individual hailed from (e.g., Sidonian for Sidon, Tyrian for Tyre, etc.)
23 de mai. de 2020 · Phoenician. (n.) late 14c., phenicienes (plural), "native or inhabitant of the ancient country of Phoenicia" on the coast of Syria, from Old French phenicien or formed from Latin Phoenice, Phoenices, on the model of Persian, etc. The Latin word is from Greek Phoinike "Phoenicia" (including its colony Carthage), which is perhaps of ...
Phoenicia was an ancient Semitic-speaking thalassocratic civilization that originated in the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily modern Lebanon. At its height between 1100 and 200 BC, Phoenician civilization spread across the Mediterranean, from Cyprus to the Iberian Peninsula.
4 de dez. de 2023 · Etymology [ edit] Borrowed from Latin Phoenicia, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek Φοινίκη (Phoiníkē) . The word is already found in the Mycenaean Greek ethnonym 𐀡𐀛𐀑𐀍 (po-ni-ki-jo). Ultimately from Egyptian fnḫw, ‘Canaanites, Syrians’.
Significado de Phoenician: fenício; Final do século XIV, phenicienes (plural), "nativo ou habitante do antigo país de Fenícia" na costa da Síria, do francês antigo phenicien ou formado a partir do latim Phoenice, Phoenices, seguindo o m...
19 de mar. de 2018 · Phoenicia was an ancient civilization composed of independent city-states located along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea stretching through what is now Syria, Lebanon and northern Israel.
The etymology and origin of the terms Phoenicia and Phoenicians have been widely discussed. There is a large consensus among scholars today that Phoenicia derives from the Greek term Phoenix, from the root phoinos, meaning “red.”
