Phoenician

[ fi-nish-uhn, -nee-shuhn ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

of or relating to Phoenicia, its people, or their language.
noting or pertaining to the script used for the writing of Phoenician from the 11th century b.c. or earlier and from which were derived the Greek, Roman, and all other Western alphabets.

Phoenician

/ fəˈniːʃən; -ˈnɪʃɪən /

a member of an ancient Semitic people of NW Syria who dominated the trade of the ancient world in the first millennium bc and founded colonies throughout the Mediterranean
the extinct language of this people, belonging to the Canaanitic branch of the Semitic subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic family

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; Phoenicia, -an

Elyon is the name of an ancient Phœnician god, slain by his son El, no doubt the “first-born of death” in Job xviii.

The figure occurs also on certain ancient coins, and in representations of the Phœnician Dagon or fish-god.

The Aradii were anciently governed by their own kings in the same manner as all the other Phœnician cities.

The suppliant was "a woman of Canaan," or, as she is described more definitely elsewhere, a Syro-Phœnician woman.

The constitution of the polis is a Phœnician invention, even this has been imitated by the Hellenes.

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