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Tyr⋅i⋅an

  [tir-ee-uhn]
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–adjective
1. of or pertaining to ancient Tyre or its people.
2. of the color of Tyrian purple.
Origin:
1505–15; < L Tyri(us) (< Gk Týrios, deriv. of Týros Tyre ) + -an
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Word Origin & History

Tyrian 
1513, from L. Tyrius "of Tyre," from Tyrus, island-city in the Levant, from Gk. Tyros, from Hebrew/Phoenician tzor, lit. "rock, rocky place." Especially in ref. to Tyrian purple, a dye made there in ancient times from certain mollusks.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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