Phoenicia

== English == === 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 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. The trading empire of the Phoenicians which spread across most of the eastern Mediterranean Sea as far west as Sicily. ==== Derived terms ==== Heliopolis in Phoenicia Phoenician ==== Translations ==== == Latin == === Alternative forms === Phoenīcē Phœnīcē Phœnīcia === Etymology === From Ancient Greek Φοινίκη (Phoiníkē), from Φοῖνιξ (Phoînix, “Phoenician”), from Egyptian fnḫw (“Phoenicians”), === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [pʰoe̯ˈniː.ki.a] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [feˈniː.t͡ʃi.a] === Proper noun === Phoenīcia f sg (genitive Phoenīciae); first declension Phoenicia (an ancient region in coastal West Asia, in modern Syria and Lebanon) (astronomy) The star HD 192263 in the constellation Aquila. ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun, with locative, singular only. ==== Related terms ==== Phoenīces phoenīcius Phoenissus Phoenix ==== Descendants ==== English: Phoenicia ==== References ==== === 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.