Lacedaemonian

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[las-i-di-moh-nee-uhn] / ˌlæs ɪ dɪˈmoʊ ni ən /

adjective

1. of or relating to ancient Sparta; Spartan.

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noun

1. a native or inhabitant of ancient Sparta; a Spartan.

Etymology

Origin of Lacedaemonian

First recorded in 1770–80; Lacedaemon + -ian

Example Sentences

After these things, he began to rebuild and fortify the city of Athens, bribing, as Theopompus reports, the Lacedaemonian ephors not to be against it, but, as most relate it, overreaching and deceiving them.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh

As the siege went on, one Damippus, a Lacedaemonian, putting to sea in a ship from Syracuse, was taken.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh

The Lacedaemonian Agesilaus, the greatest of the Spartan kings, 440-360 b.c.

From The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura by Butler, Harold Edgeworth

The consul, with Titus Quinctius, crossed over thence to Aegium, to confer with the council of the Achaeans about the Eleans, and also the restoration of the Lacedaemonian exiles.

From The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36 by Livius, Titus

Cnidus was a city of high antiquity and probably of Lacedaemonian colonization.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various