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Nuragic

Nuragic adjective: of or relating to a civilization of Sardinia, which lasted from the Mediterranean Bronze Age until the 2nd century CE and built monuments of a type called nuraghe.

Adjective

Nuragic (comparative more Nuragic, superlative most Nuragic)

  1. Of or relating to a civilization of Sardinia, which lasted from the Mediterranean Bronze Age until the 2nd century CE and built monuments of a type called nuraghe.
    • North of this main sanctuary stood a building known as the chief's sanctuary. The nuragic period occupation level in the chief's dwelling produced pig, cow, and sheep bones along with pottery, fragments of bronze objects, a crucible and some slag.2007, Stephen L. Dyson; Robert J. Rowland, Jr., Archaeology and History in Sardinia from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages: Shepherds, Sailors, and Conquerors, University of Pennsylvania Museum of...
    • Two points are by now acknowledged: the first, and already discussed above, is the Cypriot impact factor on Nuragic Sardinia, more than on any other western land, specifically connected to the metallurgy.2013, Fulvia Lo Schiavo, 10: The western Mediterranean before The Etruscans, Jean MacIntosh Turfa, The Etruscan World, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 209

Proper noun

Nuragic

  1. The hypothesized language of the Nuragic civilization.
    • Nuragic and Etruscan would have been introduced to Sardinia and Etruria ca. 1000 BCE from Anatolia.2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 21

Forms of Nuragic

comparativemore Nuragic
superlativemost Nuragic
alternative formNuraghic

Origin of Nuragic

From nuraghe + -ic.

Questions about Nuragic

What does Nuragic mean?
Nuragic means of or relating to a civilization of Sardinia, which lasted from the Mediterranean Bronze Age until the 2nd century CE and built monuments of a type called nuraghe.
What part of speech is Nuragic?
Nuragic can be an adjective or a proper noun.

Words near Nuragic in the dictionary

  1. Nur-Sultan
  2. nuraghe
  3. nuraghes
  4. nuraghi
  5. Nuraghic
  6. Nuragic
  7. NURBS
  8. Nurchen
  9. Nurchens
  10. Nurcoung
  11. nurd

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