Pisidian

[ pi-sid-ee-uhn, pahy- ]

noun

1. the extinct language of Pisidia, not known to be related to any other language, written in a script derived from the Greek alphabet.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Pisidian¹

Pisidi(a) + -an

Example Sentences

The loss in Asia was less than might have been expected: Theodore Lascaris and John Ducas had kept back the Turk, and only two districts of no great extent had fallen into Moslem hands—the Pisidian coast with the seaport of Adalia on the south, and the Paphlagonian coast with the seaport of Sinope on the north.

From Project Gutenberg

Haretas the Pisidian shall go down Into the place of ships, but not my guest: Entrust your ring to this, and she will bear it.

From Project Gutenberg

Some of the major finds of diggers, archeologists and paleontologists, recently made or described, include: �In Pisidian Antioch,* an expedition financed by the University of Michigan and including Dr. David M. Robinson of Johns Hopkins University, unearthed two paved squares, one dedicated to Tiberius, the other to Augustus, a flight of marble steps and a propylea connecting the Iwo squares.

From Time Magazine Archive

Johannes and I had placed more than half of the rest of the body-guard on the bridge, to defend the crossing, under Principius, the brave Pisidian, and Tarmuth, the gigantic Isaurian.

From Project Gutenberg

Some fourteen thousand Greeks from different States joined his standard—not with a view of a march to Babylon and an attack on the great king, but to conquer and root out the Pisidian mountaineers, who did much mischief from their fastnesses in the southeast of Asia Minor.

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