poliorcetics
English
editEtymology
editPartly:[1]
- borrowed from Late Latin poliorcetica (“siege engines”) + English -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum) (poliorcetica is derived from Koine Greek πολιορκητικά (poliorkētiká, “things related to sieges”), the neuter plural of πολιορκητικός (poliorkētikós, “relating to poliorcetics, poliorcetic”), from Ancient Greek πολῐορκέω (poliorkéō, “to besiege, blockade”) (from πόλις (pólis, “city”) + ἕρκος (hérkos, “enclosure; fence”)) + -τῐκός (-tikós, suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘of or relating to’)); and
- from poliorcetic (“relating to poliorcetics”) + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum).
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌpəʊlɪɔːˈsɛtɪks/, /ˌpɒ-/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˌpoʊliˌɔɹˈsɛtɪks/, /ˈpoʊ-/, [-ɾɪks]
- Rhymes: -ɛtɪks
- Hyphenation: po‧li‧or‧ce‧tics
Noun
editpoliorcetics pl (plural only)
- (military) The art of siege warfare, namely, that of conducting or resisting a siege; siegecraft.
- 1992, Lars Karlsson, Fortification Towers and Masonry Techniques in the Hegemony of Syracuse, 405–211 B.C. (Skrifter Utgivna av Svenska Institutet i Rom [Publications of the Swedish Institute in Rome]; 49), Stockholm: Svenska Institutet i Rom [Swedish Institute in Rome], →ISBN, →ISSN, page 11, column 1:
- The grand battles of the Archaic and early Classical periods were replaced by the new art of poliorcetics.
Related terms
editTranslations
editart of siege warfare
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References
edit- ^ “poliorcetics, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2020; “poliorcetics, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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