Tegeann.adj.

/tɛˈdʒiːən/

/ˈtɛdʒɪən/

Etymology: < Greek Τεγέα, Latin Tegea Tegea.

A. n.

A native or inhabitant of the ancient city of Tegea in Arcadia.

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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of ancient or medieval Europe > ancient Greeks and neighbours > [noun] > native or inhabitant of states, regions, or cities

Thebienc1374

Spartiatec1384

myrmidonc1425

Spartanc1425

Phocianc1487

Argive?1532

Locrian1536

Locrensian1542

Achaean1550

Mantinean1550

Mytilenean1550

Tegeate1584

Pylian1585

Epidaurian?1589

Thessalian1608

Olympian1609

Sicyonian1642

Samothracian1653

Dorian1662

Attic1699

Tegean1709

1709 I. Littlebury tr. Herodotus Hist. II. ix. 377 Next to themselves, the Lacedemonians plac'd the Tegeans, consisting of fifteen hundred Men.

1808 W. Mitford Hist. Greece (new ed.) II. xvii. 263 The Tegeans, and all those other Arcadians who had not, with the Mantineians, renounced the Lacedæmonian alliance.

1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 110/1 At Plataea (479 b.c.) 3000 Tegeans fought the good fight of freedom.

1949 Oxf. Classical Dict. 881/1 C. 550 b.c. Sparta came to terms with Tegea after a long war; and for two centuries it followed the Spartan lead, though at times unwillingly, for the Tegeans were tough fighters.

B. adj.

Of or pertaining to Tegea or its inhabitants.

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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > named cities or towns > [adjective] > in Greece > ancient cities

Thebanc1374

Pylian1590

Argive1598

Mantinean1598

Mytilenean1724

Tegean1767

Mycenaean1842

1767 A. Strahan tr. Virgil Æneid I. v. 137 He from Arcarnania came, This from Arcadia of Tegæan blood.

1858 G. Rawlinson tr. Herodotus Hist. I. i. lxvi. 204 These persons..measured the Tegean plain as they executed their labours.

1919 E. Pound Quia Pauper Amavi 35 Tegean Pan.

1952 C. Day Lewis tr. Virgil Aeneid v. 101 After him, side by side, Salius and Patron, the one Acarnanian, the other Arcadian, of a Tegaean family.

Derivatives

Tegeate n. and adj. [ < Latin Tegeātēs]

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