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Illyrian

[ ih-leer-ee-uhn ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to Illyria.


noun

  1. a native or inhabitant of Illyria.
  2. the extinct language of the Illyrians, an Indo-European language of uncertain relationship within the Indo-European language family.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Illyrian1

First recorded in 1545–55; Illyri(a) + -an
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Example Sentences

Galerius, an Illyrian herdsman, but exhibited more conspicuously upon the throne of empire the native barbarity of his character.

Do we not serve under Aemilius Paullus and his Illyrian auspices?

A temple to Mars the avenger, if I had but a front of Illyrian horse!

In an Illyrian story, a Vila is by a youth found one morning sleeping in the grass.

Napoleon now made him a marshal and governor-general of all the Illyrian provinces of the empire.

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