Mycenaean
pronunciation
How to pronounce Mycenaean in British English:
UK [maisiˈni:ən]
How to pronounce Mycenaean in American English:
US [ˌmaɪsəˈniən]
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- Adjective:
- of or relating to or characteristic of ancient Mycenae or its inhabitants
Word Origin
- Mycenaean
- 1590s, "pertaining to Mycenae," the ancient city on the Argive plain, from Latin Mycenaeus, from Greek Mykenaios "of Mycenae," from Mykenai. In reference to the Aegean civilization that flourished 1500-1100 B.C.E. and was centered on Mycenae, it is from 1890s.
Example
- 1. The most significant were the minoan and mycenaean civilizations .
- 2. You have the destruction completely of the mycenaean bronze age culture .
- 3. Mycenaean women ! Orestes is the victor !
- 4. One of a hellenic people believed to have inhabited the peloponnesus and to have created the mycenaean civilization .
- 5. Found in an olive grove in what 's now the village of iklaina ( map ) , the tablet was created by a greek-speaking mycenaean scribe between 1450 and 1350 b.c. , archaeologists say .