Lacedaemonian
See also: Lacedæmonian
English edit
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Etymology edit
Lacedaemonia + -an
Adjective edit
Lacedaemonian (comparative more Lacedaemonian, superlative most Lacedaemonian)
- Of or pertaining to Lacedaemonia (Laconia) in Greece.
- spartan (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Translations edit
of, from or pertaining to Lacedaemonia
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Noun edit
Lacedaemonian (plural Lacedaemonians)
- An inhabitant of Lacedaemonia (Laconia) in Greece.
- 1579, Plutarke of Chæronea [i.e., Plutarch], “Agis and Cleomenes”, in Thomas North, transl., The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, […], London: […] Richard Field, →OCLC, page 851:
- […] yet if in temperance, thriftines, & noble mind (exceeding all their vanities) he could come to reſtore the Lacedæmonians againe vnto equalitie: that then in deede he ſhould be counted a noble king.
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
- For Kallikrates died out of the battle, he came to the army the most beautiful man of the Greeks of that day - not only of the Lacedæmonians themselves, but of the other Greeks also.
Translations edit
inhabitant of Lacedaemonia
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