Euxine

[ yook-sin, -sahyn ]

/ ˈyuk sɪn, -saɪn /

adjective

of or relating to the Black Sea.

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Examples from the Web for euxine

They have also another way of fishing like those on the Euxine Sea, by the help of a blazing fire by night.
The Bounty of the Chesapeake|James Wharton
They spent a week with their friends at Taganrog, and thence proceeded to Odessa, the great commercial entrepôt of the Euxine.
Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century|W. H. Davenport Adams
I returned a polite bow to the salutation of my new-found cousin, and wished him at the bottom of the Euxine.
Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846|Various
The Dnieper, navigable for boats most of the distance from Kief to the Euxine, favored their enterprise.
The Empire of Russia|John S. C. Abbott

In this retirement, and the Euxine Pontus, he passed the remainder of his life, a melancholy period of seven years.
The Lives Of The Twelve Caesars, Complete|C. Suetonius Tranquillus

Word Origin and History for euxine

Euxine

archaic name for the Black Sea, from Latin Pontus Euxinus, from Greek Pontos Euxenios, literally "the hospitable sea," a euphemism for Pontos Axeinos, "the inhospitable sea."

According to Room, The Old Persian name for the sea was akhshaena, literally "dark," probably in reference to the sudden, dangerous storms that make the sea perilous to sailors and darken its face, and the Greeks took this untranslated as Pontos Axeinos, which was interpeted as the similar-sounding Greek word axenos "inhospitable." Thus the modern English name could reflect the Old Persian one.