periegetic
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Koine Greek περιηγητικός (periēgētikós, “of or pertaining to a periegete (a writer of periegeses); descriptive”), from περιηγητής (periēgētḗs, “periegete”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic, suffix forming adjectives, meaning ‘of or pertaining to, in the manner of’”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌpɛ.ɹɪ.əˈd͡ʒɛ.tɪk/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌpɛ.ɹi.əˈd͡ʒɛ.tɪk/, /-ɾɪk/
- Hyphenation: pe‧ri‧e‧get‧ic
Adjective
[edit]periegetic (not comparable)
- (rare) Relating to a periegesis.
- 2001, Ian Rutherford, “Tourism and the Sacred: Pausanias and the Traditions of Greek Pilgrimage”, in Susan E[llen] Alcock, John F. Cherry, Jaś Elsner, editors, Pausanias: Travel and Memory in Roman Greece, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 45:
- A periegesis is usually understood to be a geographical catalogue, cast in the form of a tour, often of a local area but sometimes more extended in scope. The form is related to local history. Modem scholarship has established that there was a specifically periegetic form of historiography, stretching back at least to the third century b.c.; […]
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