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Eteocretan, a. and n.|ˌiːtɪəʊˈkriːtən, ˌɛtɪəʊ-|
[f. Gr. Ἐτεόκρης lit. ‘true Cretan’, f. ἐτεό-ς true + κρητ-, κρής Cretan, + -an.]
A. adj. Of, pertaining to, or designating a pre-Greek people of Crete or their language.
B. n.
1. A member of this people or linguistic group.
2. The language of this people.
1615Chapman tr. Homer's Odysses xix. 245 There [sc. in Crete] Greekes suruiue, There the great-minded Eteocretans liue. 1895A. J. Evans Cretan Pictographs 85 The language here found represents that of the Eteocretans of whom, as we know, Praesos was a principal stronghold. Ibid. 86 It is possible that in the early period during which the indigenous Cretan script, both pictographic and linear, seems to have taken its origin the sole or preponderating element in the island may have been the ‘Eteocretan’. 1904Ann. Brit. School at Athens 1901–2 VIII. 155 Messapian and Illyrian are clearly related to Venetic, a language to which we have found certain resemblances in Eteocretan. 1939J. D. S. Pendlebury Archæol. of Crete v. 270 Of the famous post-Minoan ‘Eteocretan’ inscriptions from Praisos it is again unsafe to say anything with certainty. 1962Daily Tel. 4 Apr. 15/3 Prof. Cyrus H. Gordon..claimed..‘Linear A’..and also ‘Eteo-Cretan’, long taken to be the pre-Greek speech of Crete, are both actually Phoenician. The Eteo-Cretan is written with the Greek alphabet. 1962Listener 10 May 810/2 The Eteocretans of Homer. |