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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Messapic.
  • noun A speaker of Messapic.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to the ancient Messapian people
  • noun A member of the Messapian people, the ancient inhabitants of the region of Apulia in Southern Italy
  • proper noun The Italic language spoken by this people

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Examples

  • Constructing Messapian landscapes: Settlement dynamics, social organization and culture contact in the margins of Graeco-Roman Italy (Dutch monographs on ancient history and archaeology) by G. - J. L.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Grand Canal Predated Venice: Ancient Roman City Lost, Now Found 2009

  • Iapygian islands called Choerades, and took on board a hundred and fifty Iapygian javelin-men of the Messapian tribe.

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

  • Iapygia, where they took on board a hundred and fifty Iapygian darters of the Messapian tribe, and after renewing an old friendship with Artas the chief, who had furnished them with the darters, arrived at Metapontium in Italy.

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2005

  • It was in early times a place of some importance, as is indicated by the remains of a prehistoric _enceinte_ and by the discovery of several Messapian inscriptions.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

  • Thus the expressions contained in the Etruscan or Messapian inscriptions are unattainable; thus we still hear discussions among ethnographers as to certain products of the art of savages, whether they be pictures or writings; thus archaeologists and prehistorians are not always able to establish with certainty, whether the figures found on the ceramic of a certain region, and on other instruments employed, be of a religious or of a profane nature.

    Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Benedetto Croce 1909

  • Messapian and Iapygian races inhabiting the extreme south and south-west of Italy; and assuming, as we must, that their migrations had proceeded by land across the Apennines, we shall draw the inference that they had been gradually pushed by stronger immigrants into the furthest corner of the

    The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879

  • Iapygia, where they took on board a hundred and fifty Iapygian darters of the Messapian tribe, and after renewing an old friendship with

    The History of the Peloponnesian War 455? BC-395 BC Thucydides 1866

  • Venulus leaves the Calydonian [43] realms and the Peucetian [44] bays, and the Messapian [45] fields.

    The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations 43 BC-18? Ovid 1847

  • Constructing Messapian Landscapes: Settlement Dynamics, Social Organization by G.J. Burgers

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Grand Canal Predated Venice: Ancient Roman City Lost, Now Found 2009

  • [3] While the Syracusans after the Sicel disaster put off any immediate attack upon the Athenians, Demosthenes and Eurymedon, whose forces from Corcyra and the mainland were now ready, crossed the Ionian gulf with all their armament to the Iapygian promontory, [4] and starting from thence touched at the Choerades Isles lying off Iapygia, where they took on board a hundred and fifty Iapygian darters of the Messapian tribe, and after renewing an old friendship with Artas the chief, who had furnished them with the darters, arrived at Metapontum in Italy.

    THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003

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