Definitions

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

  • adjective Of or relating to Phrygia or its people, language, or culture.
  • noun A native or inhabitant of Phrygia.
  • noun The Indo-European language of the Phrygians.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertain ing to Phrygia, an ancient province or country in the interior of Asia Minor, or to the Phry gians.
  • noun A native or an inhabitant of Phrygia.
  • noun In ecclesiastical history, same as Montanist.
  • noun An ancient language spoken in Phrygia, of which no record remains except some isolated words and proper names preserved in Greek literature. Upon these evidences the language is now classed as one of the Indo-European family.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to Phrygia, or to its inhabitants.
  • adjective (Mus.) one of the ancient Greek modes, very bold and vehement in style; -- so called because fabled to have been invented by the Phrygian Marsyas.
  • adjective a light, spongy stone, resembling a pumice, -- used by the ancients in dyeing, and said to be drying and astringent.
  • noun A native or inhabitant of Phrygia.
  • noun (Eccl. Hist.) A Montanist.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of or relating to Phrygia, its people, or their culture.
  • adjective In the Phrygian language.
  • noun A native or inhabitant of Phrygia.
  • proper noun The language of the Phrygian people.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a Thraco-Phrygian language spoken by the ancient inhabitants of Phrygia and now extinct--preserved only in a few inscriptions
  • noun a native or inhabitant of Phrygia

Etymologies

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From Latin Phrygianus.

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Examples

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  • The tale should be classed with those of the satyrs who sang and danced in the train of Osiris; with the little boys whom they would not feed till after they had run eight leagues, to teach them to conquer the world; with the two children who cried bec in asking for bread and who by that means discovered that the Phrygian was the original language; with

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • But this passage is more honorable to the manufactures than to the navigation of Phoenicia, from whence they had been imported to Troy in Phrygian bottoms.] 58 See in Ovid (de Arte Amandi, iii. 269, &c.) a poetical list of twelve colors borrowed from flowers, the elements, &c.

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • His Dorian is what the ancients called Phrygian, [G: d 'd' '] dominant,

    Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University Edward MacDowell 1884

  • A; his Phrygian was the ancient Dorian, [G: e 'e' '] dominant,

    Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University Edward MacDowell 1884

  • The series upon mi was called Phrygian, upon fa Lydian; upon sol Mixo-Lydian.

    A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present 1874

  • To the town-folks Torrini perhaps vaguely suggested hand-organs and eleemosynary pennies; but Richard never looked at the straight-limbed, handsome fellow without recalling the Phrygian-capped sailors of the Mediterranean.

    The Stillwater Tragedy Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1871

  • Quite the reverse, he replied; and if so the Dorian and the Phrygian are the only ones which you have left.

    The Republic 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

  • Quite the reverse, he replied; and if so, the Dorian and the Phrygian are the only ones which you have left.

    The Republic of Plato Plato 1763

  • The medallion bore the coat of arms of the French Republic topped with the "Phrygian" cap, being flanked on either side by two allegorical female figures, one of which was symbolic of the Armed Peace protecting herself with a sword, and the other was intended to represent

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