Moreotadj.n.
/ˈmɒrɪət/, U.S. /ˈmɔriət/ A. adj.
Of or relating to the Peloponnese peninsula of Greece, or its inhabitants.
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Peloponnesian1569
Moreot1823
1823 Ld. Byron Let. 26 Aug. (1981) XI. 19 I have given directions to Messrs. Kornologni..to furnish the Moreote refugees with every necessary for their decent subsistence.
1838 Penny Cycl. XI. 434/2 Some intrigues and dissensions between the Roumeliote chiefs, the Moreote primates, and the old Klepht Colocotroni.
1848 J. G. Wilkinson Dalmatia & Montenegro II. 453 The Moreote character, too, bears a far stronger resemblance to that of the ancient Greeks, than of the Slavonians.
1946 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 18 70/1 There is a biographical sketch of Angel, the Moreote Greek, who was persecuted by the Turks and fled to England in 1608.
1973 New Society 19 July 160/3 The idle byzantinism, the Turkish-style conspiracies and intrigues of the Moriot, Roumeliot and other Greeks.
1994 Speculum 69 806 It was the integration of local Moreot archons into the Frankish elite that proved crucial to the new state's survival.
B. n.
A native or inhabitant of the Peloponnese peninsula.
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Peloponnesianc1487
Athenian1526
Messenian?1529
Marathonian1797
Suliote1812
Moreot1838
1838 Penny Cycl. XI. 432/2 The Moreotes, on the contrary, with the exception of Maina, had completely submitted to the Turkish yoke.
1905 Q. Rev. July 113 The descendants of the unwarlike Moreots.
1965 Speculum 40 740 Some have proposed that this version was written by a gasmule,..a Moreot born of a Frank father and Greek mother.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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