Numantine

N1U1M3A1N1T1I1N1E1

adjective

Of or relating to the ancient Celtiberian city of Numantia.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

adjectiveNumantine (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOf or relating to the ancient Celtiberian city of Numantia.

    He [Polybius] was long after that a great favourite, yea, a Counſellour of that Scipio [Aemilianus] who was ſometimes called Africanus Minor, and ſometimes Numantinus; becauſe he ended the Carthaginian and Numantine War, with the deſtruction of both Cities.

    1683, James Turner, “Of a Roman Legion, Marshall’d According to Polybius”, in Pallas Armata. Military Essayes of the Ancient Grecian, Roman, and Modern Art of War. […], London: […] M[argaret] W[hite] for Richard Chiswell […], →OCLC, page 95
nounNumantine (plural Numantines)

plural Numantines

  1. A native or inhabitant of the ancient Celtiberian city of Numantia.

    Scipio Æmilianus (who deſtroy’d Carthage) made much uſe of Bow-men againſt the Numantines, and without them, if you will believe Vegetius, he thought he could not over-maſter that Valorous Enemy.

    1683, James Turner, “Of Their Arms, Offensive and Defensive, and Their Military Oath”, in Pallas Armata. Military Essayes of the Ancient Grecian, Roman, and Modern Art of War. […], London: […] M[argaret] W[hite] for Richard Chiswell […], →OCLC, page 47
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    And therefore when the Army was already upon their March, he return’d to Numantia, accompanied with only three or four of his intimate Friends, and making his Application to the principal Officers of the Numantines, he earneſtly entreated, that they would return him his Books, leſt his Enemies ſhould thereby take an occaſion to upbraid him, for not being able to give an Account of the Moneys received and disburſed by him.

    1685, Plutarch, “The Life of Tiberius”, in John Warren, transl., The Fourth Volume of Plutarch’s Lives. Translated from the Greek, […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC, page 637

    Appian relates a ſtrange tale of one Rhetogenes, a brave Numantine, who, in a dark night, with five friends, as many ſervants, and ſix horſes, by the help of ſome portable bridges, got over the Roman lines; […]

    1766, N[athaniel] Hooke, “Scipio Æmilianus Is Sent into Spain against the Numantines. […]”, in The Roman History, from the Building of Rome to the Ruin of the Commonwealth. […], 4th edition, volume VI, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson; G[eorge] Hawkins; and T[homas] Longman, →OCLC, book VI (From the End of the Third Punic War, in the Year of Rome 607, […] to the Death of the Younger Gracchus, in 632, […]), page 128

Origin

  1. LatinNumantīnus
  2. EnglishNumantine

From Latin Numantīnus.

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Translations

Ancient Greek Νομᾰντῖνος
  • Νομᾰντῖνος (Nomăntînos)native or inhabitant of Numantia
Greek Νομαντίνος
  • Νομαντίνος (Nomantínos)native or inhabitant of Numantia
Latin Numantīnus
  • Numantīnusnative or inhabitant of Numantia

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