Scythian
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Scythian
- /ˈsɪði.ən/
- /ˈsɪθi.ən/
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Of or relating to Scythia (a region of Central Eurasia in the classical era) or its inhabitants.
The Scythian collection is designed not just to echo a past civilization, recorded in the classical works of Herodotos and Pliny; it is also intended as a clarion call to the Russians to look to their jewelry heritage and their wealth of precious stones.
Similar: Scythic
noun Scythians
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An inhabitant of Scythia.
1685, John Norris, (translator), The Institution and Life of Cyrus the Great [Cyropaedia] by Xenophon Book I
How far he surpassed them all may be felt if we remember that no Scythian, although the Scythians are reckoned by their myriads, has ever succeeded in dominating a foreign nation […]
Similar: Scyth
proper noun
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The Eastern Iranian language of Scythians.
Similar: Scythic
- The Proto-Indo-European language. Scythian was therefore not the same as modern Dutch, but the ancestral language of the Dutch as well as other neighbouring languages.
- An epoch from 251 ± 0.2 to 245 ± 1.5 million years ago, a subdivision of the Early Triassic.
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adj of or relating to Scythia or its inhabitants
| Español | escita, escítico |
|---|---|
| हिन्दी | शक śak, शाक śāk, शाका śākā |
| Português | cítico |
| Français | scythe, scythique |
| Deutsch | skythisch, szythisch |
| Italiano | scitico |
| Română | scit, scitic |
| Русский | ски́фский skífskij |
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title = {Scythian},
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