Tyrrhenian
/tɪˈriːnɪən
/adjective
1Relating to or denoting the Tyrrhenian Sea or the surrounding region.First, the system of slave villas existed only on the Tyrrhenian coast of central Italy; absent in the Po region, in the Apennine regions it coexisted with other forms of settlement....
- However, a number of older, large-offset low-angle normal faults in the Apennine system are now exposed at the surface in the Tyrrhenian islands and Tuscany.
- On land, along the Tyrrhenian margin of the Calabrian Arc, widespread upper Tortonian and local Serravallian synrift clastic deposits are exposed, suggesting Serravallian-Tortonian back-arc extension.
2 archaic Etruscan.
noun archaic
An Etruscan.This means that not even Greeks are concerned, but the pre-Greek inhabitants of Lemnos, whom Homer calls, the later Greeks (Tyrrhenians)....
- However, the Phocaeans had plundered and pillaged the area and the Tyrrhenians and Carthagenians united against them.
- The creature sails with Dionysus and leaps against the Tyrrhenians without waiting for his bidding.
