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Phrygian¹

  • /ˈfɹɪ.d͡ʒɪ.ən/ UK
  • /ˈfɹɪ.d͡ʒi.ən/ US

Where it comes from

From Latin Phrygiānus + English -an (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Phrygianus is derived from Phrygia + -ānus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’); and Phrygia is from Ancient Greek Φρῠγῐ́ᾱ (Phrŭgĭ́ā, “region in Anatolia”), from Φρῠ́ξ (Phrŭ́x, “person from Phrygia”) (further etymology unknown, possibly from Phrygian or related to Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“to ascend, rise up; to be elevated, up high”)) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns).

adjective

  1. not comparable Of or relating to Phrygia, its people, or their culture.
  2. not comparable Written or spoken in the Phrygian language. ‘Then one day one of the infants stretched out his little hands to the shepherd and exclaimed bekos, which is the Phrygian word for bread.’
  3. not comparable In the Phrygian mode.

noun Phrygians

  1. A native or inhabitant of Phrygia. ‘And so Psammetichus decided the Phrygians must have been the first race on earth, and Phrygian the first language.’
  2. A Montanist.

proper noun

  1. The language of the Phrygian people.
  2. Phrygian mode

phrygian²

adjective

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Phrygian

noun

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Phrygian, in the musical sense

Translations

Every language

adj of or relating to Phrygia, its people or their culture

Españolfrigio
हिन्दीफ्रुगियाई phrugiyāī
Portuguêsfrígio
Deutschphrygisch
Italianofrigio
Ελληνικάφρυγικός frygikós
Русскийфриги́йский frigíjskij
עבריתפְרִיגִי frigi

adj written or spoken in the Phrygian language

हिन्दीफ्रुगियाई phrugiyāī
Deutschphrygisch
Русскийфриги́йский frigíjskij

noun native or inhabitant of Phrygia

Españolfrigio
हिन्दीफ्रुगियाई phrugiyāī
Portuguêsfrígio
FrançaisPhrygien, Phrygienne
DeutschPhryger, Phrygerin
ΕλληνικάΦρύγας Frýgas
Русскийфриги́ец frigíjec, фриги́йка frigíjka

name language

Españolfrigio
हिन्दीफ्रुगियाई phrugiyāī
Portuguêsfrígio
Françaisphrygien
DeutschPhrygisch
Ελληνικάφρυγική frygikí, φρυγικά frygiká
Русскийфриги́йский frigíjskij

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@misc{phrygian_2026,
  title = {phrygian},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/phrygian},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}