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Numantine

Numantine adjective: of or relating to the ancient Celtiberian city of Numantia.

Adjective

Numantine (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to the ancient Celtiberian city of Numantia.
    • He [Polybius] was long after that a great favourite, yea, a Counſellour of that Scipio [Aemilianus] who was ſometimes called Africanus Minor, and ſometimes Numantinus; becauſe he ended the Carthaginian and Numantine War, with the deſtruction of both Cities.1683, James Turner, “Of a Roman Legion, Marshall’d According to Polybius”, in Pallas Armata. Military Essayes of the Ancient Grecian, Roman, and Modern Art of War. […], London: […] M[argaret] W[hite]...

Noun

Numantine (plural Numantines)

  1. A native or inhabitant of the ancient Celtiberian city of Numantia.
    • Scipio Æmilianus (who deſtroy’d Carthage) made much uſe of Bow-men againſt the Numantines, and without them, if you will believe Vegetius, he thought he could not over-maſter that Valorous Enemy.1683, James Turner, “Of Their Arms, Offensive and Defensive, and Their Military Oath”, in Pallas Armata. Military Essayes of the Ancient Grecian, Roman, and Modern Art of War. […], London: […]...
    • And therefore when the Army was already upon their March, he return’d to Numantia, accompanied with only three or four of his intimate Friends, and making his Application to the principal Officers of the Numantines, he earneſtly entreated, that they would return him his Books, leſt his Enemies...1685, Plutarch, “The Life of Tiberius”, in John Warren, transl., The Fourth Volume of Plutarch’s Lives. Translated from the Greek, […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC, page 637

Forms of Numantine

pluralNumantines

Origin of Numantine

From Latin Numantīnus.

Questions about Numantine

What does Numantine mean?
Numantine means of or relating to the ancient Celtiberian city of Numantia.
What part of speech is Numantine?
Numantine can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near Numantine in the dictionary

  1. Numa
  2. Numan
  3. Numancia
  4. Numanoid
  5. Numanoids
  6. Numantine
  7. Numantines
  8. Numazu
  9. numb
  10. numb nut
  11. numb nuts

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