Greek phoinix also meant "(the color) purple," perhaps "the Phoenician color," because the Greeks obtained purple dyes from the Phoenicians, but scholars disagree about this (Greek also had phoinos "red, blood red," which is of uncertain etymology). Ĭompare phoenix, which seems to be unrelated. The Latin word is from Greek Phoinike "Phoenicia" (including its colony Carthage), which is perhaps of Pre-Greek origin. Late 14c., phenicienes (plural), "native or inhabitant of the ancient country of Phoenicia" on the coast of Syria, from Old French phenicien or formed from Latin Phoenice, Phoenices, on the model of Persian, etc. The city in Arizona, U.S., was so called because it was founded in 1867 on the site of an ancient Native American settlement. The constellation was one of the 11 added to Ptolemy's list in the 1610s by Flemish cartographer Petrus Plancius (1552-1622) after Europeans began to explore the Southern Hemisphere. Figurative sense of "that which rises from the ashes of what was destroyed" is attested from 1590s. and the spelling was assimilated to Greek in 16c. Forms in ph- begin to appear in English late 15c. Ðone wudu weardaþ wundrum fæger fugel feþrum se is fenix hatan Ĭompare Phoenician, which seems to be unrelated. The bird was the only one of its kind, and after living 500 or 600 years in the Arabian wilderness, "built for itself a funeral pile of spices and aromatic gums, lighted the pile with the fanning of its wings, and was burned upon it, but from its ashes revived in the freshness of youth". Mythical bird of great beauty worshiped in Egypt, Old English and Old French fenix, from Medieval Latin phenix, from Latin phoenix, from Greek phoinix.
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