Wiktionary

Phrygian

English

edit
 
English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Etymology

edit

From Latin Phrygiānus + English -an (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Phrygianus is derived from Phrygia + -ānus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’); and Phrygia is from Ancient Greek Φρῠγῐ́ᾱ (Phrugíā, “region in Anatolia”),[1] from Φρῠ́ξ (Phrúx, “person from Phrygia”) (further etymology unknown, possibly from Phrygian or related to Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“to ascend, rise up; to be elevated, up high”)) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns).

Pronunciation

edit

Adjective

edit

Phrygian (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to Phrygia, its people, or their culture.
  2. Written or spoken in the Phrygian language.
    • 2022, R. F. Kuang, Babel, HarperVoyager, page 114:
      ‘Then one day one of the infants stretched out his little hands to the shepherd and exclaimed bekos, which is the Phrygian word for bread.’

Derived terms

edit

Translations

edit

Noun

edit

Phrygian (plural Phrygians)

  1. A native or inhabitant of Phrygia.
    • 2022, R. F. Kuang, Babel, HarperVoyager, page 114:
      ‘And so Psammetichus decided the Phrygians must have been the first race on earth, and Phrygian the first language.’
  2. A Montanist.

Translations

edit

Proper noun

edit

Phrygian

  1. The language of the Phrygian people.
  2. (music) Phrygian mode

Derived terms

edit

Translations

edit

References

edit
  1. ^ “Phrygian, n. and adj.”, in OED Online  ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, July 2024; “Phrygian, adj. and n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Further reading

edit
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Phrygian&oldid=80977617"