Bosporian
English
Etymology
Bosporus + -ian
Adjective
Bosporian (comparative more Bosporian, superlative most Bosporian)
- Of or pertaining to the Thracian or Cimmerian Bosporus.
- Tooke
- The Alans forced the Bosporian kings to pay them tribute and exterminated the Taurians.
- Tooke
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for Bosporian in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)