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Brittonic word for
Great Britain, Pretanī,
which also
produced the Gr**** form
Prettanike or Brettaniai. In the 2nd century,
Roman Britannia came to be personified...
- this
island group. By 50 BC, Gr****
geographers were
using equivalents of
Prettanikē as a
collective name for the
British Isles. However, with the
Roman conquest...
-
Sicily and
Strabo who
quote Pytheas' use of
variants such as Πρεττανική (
Prettanikē), "The
Britannic [land, island]", and nēsoi brettaniai, "Britannic islands"...
-
Britain and Ireland). Pytheas's
grasp of the νῆσος Πρεττανική (nēsos
Prettanikē, "Prettanic island") is
somewhat blurry, and
appears to
include anything...
- 325–320 BC) have survived. In the 1st
century BC,
Diodorus Siculus has
Prettanikē nēsos, "the
British Island", and Prettanoi, "the Britons".
Strabo used...
-
province of Britain. This word
derives from a Gr**** word, Πρεττανική (
Prettanikḗ) or Βρεττανίαι (Brettaníai), used by Pytheas, an
explorer from M****alia...
-
peoples of what are
today England, Wales,
Scotland and the Isle of Man of
Prettanike were
called the Πρεττανοί (Prettanoi), Priteni,
Pritani or Pretani. The...
-
Sicily and
Strabo who
quote Pytheas' use of
variants such as πρεττανική (
Prettanikē), "The
Britannic [land, island]", and νησοι βρεττανιαι (nēsoi brettaniai)...
-
lived in late 4th and
early 3rd
centuries BC. He
reported its name as
Prettanike (Πρεττανική) and
Brettaniai (Βρεττανίαι), for
Britain and the British...
- who
first transliterated the
local word for the
islands into the Gr****
Prettanikē.
Pytheas may have
taken his name for the
inhabitants from the name Pretani...
