Pelasgi

American  

[puh-laz-jee] / pəˈlæz dʒi /

plural noun

1. the Pelasgians.

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Etymology

Origin of Pelasgi

< Latin Pelasgī < Greek Pelasgoí

Example Sentences

According to Pherecydes, the original inhabitants were Leleges, while according to other accounts Thessalian Pelasgi possessed the island before it became an Ionian state.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" by Various

The temple was founded by the Pelasgi long before the siege of Troy; it was partially destroyed by the Ætolians during the Social War, and it would seem that it never recovered from this disaster.

From The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies by White, Catherine Ann

Pelasgic, pē-las′jik, adj. pertaining to the Pelasgians or Pelasgi, a race spread over Greece in prehistoric times, to whom are ascribed many enormous remains built of unhewn stones, without cement—the so-called Pelasgic architecture.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

I shall therefore give a full account of the Helladian Greeks, as well as of the I�nim, or Ionians, in Asia: also of the Dorians, Leleges, and Pelasgi.

From A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Bryant, Jacob

In Arcadia and Boeotia the Pelasgi declared that their old deities were born.

From Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology by Clarke, James Freeman