minoan
IPA: mʌnˈoʊʌn
Root Word: Minoan
noun
- A person who belonged to the Minoan civilization.
- The language written in Linear A.
adjective
- Of or relating to the civilization that developed in Crete from the neolithic period to the Bronze Age (about 3000-1050 B.C.E.).
- Of or relating to the writing systems (Linear A and Linear B) used in Crete and later in mainland Greece.
- Of or relating to the ancient language of the Minoans which died out by the beginning of the 1st millennium B.C.E.
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