Scythian
adj, name, noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 An inhabitant of Scythia.
"1685, John Norris, (translator), The Institution and Life of Cyrus the Great [Cyropaedia] by Xenophon Book I How far he surpassed them all may be felt if we remember that no Scythian, although the Scythians are reckoned by their myriads, has ever succeeded in dominating a foreign nation […]"
- 2 the Iranian language spoken by the ancient Scythians wordnet
- 3 a member of the ancient nomadic people inhabiting Scythia wordnet
- 1 Of or relating to Scythia (a region of Central Eurasia in the classical era) or its inhabitants.
"The Scythian collection is designed not just to echo a past civilization, recorded in the classical works of Herodotos and Pliny; it is also intended as a clarion call to the Russians to look to their jewelry heritage and their wealth of precious stones."
- 1 of or relating to the ancient Scythians or their culture or language wordnet
- 1 The Eastern Iranian language of Scythians.
- 2 The Proto-Indo-European language. Indo-European-studies
"Scythian was therefore not the same as modern Dutch, but the ancestral language of the Dutch as well as other neighbouring languages."
Example
More examples"The Scythian collection is designed not just to echo a past civilization, recorded in the classical works of Herodotos and Pliny; it is also intended as a clarion call to the Russians to look to their jewelry heritage and their wealth of precious stones."
Etymology
From Scythia + -an.
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