Phoenicia

n. 腓尼基

发音

其它 /fəˈnɪʃɪə/

别名

Phenicia Phœnicia

释义与例句

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  1. 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.

    腓尼基

  2. 2.

    The trading empire of the Phoenicians which spread across most of the eastern Mediterranean Sea as far west as Sicily.

相关短语

Heliopolis in Phoenicia

词源

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, f:n:x-w-V12:Z2 ‘Canaanites, Syrians’.

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