Definitions
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- noun name of a tribe,
ethnonym
Etymologies
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From Ancient Greek ἐθνικόν (ethnikos), neuter gender of ἐθνικός (ethnikos, "national").
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Some say it's a corruption of "griego" (Greek, the classic Western European ethnicon for something that makes no sense), while others claim it referred to Irish immigrants in Madrid.
Tucson Weekly 2008
grammypenni commented on the word ethnicon
"In introducing Haman, he gives us his patronymic and ethnicon in a manner very similar to the way in which he introduced Mordecai in the previous act."
Sentence in Word Biblical Commentary on Ruth/Esther by Frederic Bush (pg #383).
August 19, 2009