Lycian

//ˈlɪ.si.ən//

Synonyms for "lycian" (4 found)

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Translations

29 translations across 12 languages.

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Ancient Greek

1 entries
  • Λύκιος noun (native of Lycia)

Armenian

1 entries
  • լիկիերեն name (language)

Catalan

3 entries
  • lici adj (relating to Lycia)
  • lici name (language)
  • lici noun (native of Lycia)

Czech

2 entries
  • lykijský adj (relating to Lycia)
  • lykijština name (language)

French

3 entries
  • lycien adj (relating to Lycia)
  • lycien name (language)
  • Lycien noun (native of Lycia)

German

3 entries
  • lykisch adj (relating to Lycia)
  • Lykisch name (language)
  • Lykier noun (native of Lycia)

Italian

3 entries
  • licio adj (relating to Lycia)
  • licio name (language)
  • licio noun (native of Lycia)

Latin

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  • Lycius adj (relating to Lycia)

Polish

4 entries
  • licyjski adj (relating to Lycia)
  • język licyjski name (language)
  • Licyjczyk noun (native of Lycia)
  • Licyjka noun (native of Lycia)

Portuguese

3 entries
  • lício adj (relating to Lycia)
  • lício name (language)
  • lício noun (native of Lycia)

Russian

2 entries
  • ликийский adj (relating to Lycia)
  • ликийский name (language)

Spanish

3 entries
  • licio adj (relating to Lycia)
  • licio name (language)
  • licio noun (native of Lycia)

Sample sentences

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One, that bore / the brave Orontes and his Lycian crew, / full in AEneas' sight a toppling wave o'erthrew. / Dashed from the tiller, down the pilot rolled. / Thrice round the billow whirled her, as she lay, / then whelmed below.

Source: tatoeba (6780333)

In regard to the antiquity of the monuments, and the people who spoke the language called Lycian, now first made known through these inscriptions, we are enabled to arrive at conclusions which fix their era with some degree of certainty.

Source: tatoeba (12131084)

From the 4th Century BCE onwards, the Lycians built rock-hewn "house" tombs – often funeral chambers carved into cliffs, with the rock face around the doorway cut to imitate the façade of a wooden Lycian house, complete with "timbers" and protruding "joists".

Source: wiktionary

Formed in the 2nd Century BCE and composed of 23 city-states, the Lycian League was the world's first democratic union, a model of a strong confederacy based on popular and proportional representation.

Source: wiktionary

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