Phocaeanとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Phocaea +‎ -an.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /fəʊˈsiːən/

名詞

Phocaean (plural Phocaeans)

1. (Ancient Greece) An inhabitant of Phocaea.
   • 1837, Edward Lytton Bulwer [i.e., Edward Bulwer-Lytton], Athens: Its Rise and Fall: […], volume I, London: Saunders and Otley, […], →OCLC, book I, page 451:

     The discipline of the navy was not equal to the valour of the enterprise; Dionysius, commander of the Phocæans, attempted, perhaps too rigorously, to enforce it;—jealousy and disgust broke out among the troops […] .

形容詞

Phocaean (comparative more Phocaean, superlative most Phocaean)

1. (Ancient Greece) Of or pertaining to Phocaea or its inhabitants.