Phoenicia

See also: phoenicia and Phœnicia

English

Phoenicia

Alternative forms

• Phenicia (nonstandard)
• Phœnicia (archaic)

Etymology

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’.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fəˈnɪʃɪə/, /fəˈniːʃɪə/, /fəˈnɪʃə/

Proper noun

Phoenicia

1. The land of city states of the Phoenicians which around 1000 BC was situated on the coast of present day Syria and Lebanon, and included the cities of Tyre and Sidon.
2. The trading empire of the Phoenicians which spread across most of the eastern Mediterranean Sea as far west as Sicily.

Derived terms

• Phoenician

Translations

land of the Phoenicians

• Arabic: فِينِيقِيَا f (fīnīqiyā)
• Armenian: Փյունիկիա (Pʿyunikia)
• Basque: Fenizia
• Bengali: ফিনিশিয়া (phiniśiẏa), ফোনিশিয়া (phōniśiẏa)
• Catalan: Fenícia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 腓尼基 (fei⁴ nei⁴ gei¹)

  Mandarin: 腓尼基 (zh) (Féiníjī)

• Czech: Fénicie f
• Danish: Fønikien
• Dutch: Fenicië (nl)
• Esperanto: Fenicio
• Faroese: Fønikia
• Finnish: Foinikia
• French: Phénicie (fr)
• German: Phönizien (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: Φοινίκη f (Phoiníkē)

• Hawaiian: Poinikia
• Hungarian: Fönícia (hu)
• Irish: an Fhéiníc f
• Italian: Fenicia (it) f
• Japanese: フェニキア (Fenikia)
• Latin: Phoenīcia (la) f
• Malay: Finiq, فينيق
• Maltese: Feniċja f
• Persian: فنیقیه (feniqiye)
• Phoenician: 𐤊𐤍𐤏𐤍 (knʿn /⁠kanaʿan⁠/)
• Polish: Fenicja (pl) f
• Portuguese: Fenícia f
• Romanian: Fenicia f
• Russian: Финики́я (ru) f (Finikíja)
• Slovak: Fenícia f
• Spanish: Fenicia (es)
• Swedish: Fenicien n
• Tajik: Финиқия (Finiqiya)
• Turkish: Fenike (tr)
• Ukrainian: Фінікі́я f (Finikíja)
• Volapük: Fönikiyän (vo)

Latin

Alternative forms

• Phoenīcē
• Phœnīcē
• Phœnīcia

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Φοινίκη (Phoiníkē), from Φοῖνιξ (Phoînix, “Phoenician”), from Egyptian fnḫw (“Syrians”),

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pʰoe̯ˈniː.ki.a/, [pʰoe̯ˈniːkiä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /feˈni.t͡ʃi.a/, [feˈniːt͡ʃiä]

Proper noun

Phoenīcia f sg (genitive Phoenīciae); first declension

1. Phoenicia (an ancient region in coastal Western Asia, in modern Syria and Lebanon)

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Phoenīcia
Genitive	Phoenīciae
Dative	Phoenīciae
Accusative	Phoenīciam
Ablative	Phoenīciā
Vocative	Phoenīcia
Locative	Phoenīciae

Related terms

• Phoenīces
• phoenīcius
• Phoenissus
• Phoenix

Descendants

• English: Phoenicia

References

• “Phoenicia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Phoenicia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.