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Crotoniates

Crotoniates is the plural of Crotoniate.

Meaning of Crotoniate

Noun

Crotoniate (plural Crotoniates)

  1. (historical) A native or inhabitant of Croton.
    • It is related of Pythagoras that, after having lived in Crotona nearly twenty years, and soon after the victory gained in 510 b. c. by the Crotoniates, on the river Traeis, over the Sybarites, who were living under the monarchical rule of Telys, he was banished by an opposition party under Cylon...1872, Friedrich Ueberweg, translated by Geo[rge] S[ylvester] Morris, “Pythagoras of Samos and the Pythagoreans”, in History of Philosophy, from Thales to the Present Time. […] (Theological and...

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Questions about Crotoniates

What is Crotoniates the plural of?
Crotoniates is the plural of Crotoniate.

Words near Crotoniates in the dictionary

  1. crotonases
  2. crotonate
  3. crotonates
  4. Crotone
  5. Crotoniate
  6. Crotoniates
  7. crotoniazide
  8. crotonic
  9. crotonic acid
  10. crotonid
  11. crotonids

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