Tyrian

English

Etymology

From Tyre +‎ -ian.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪɹiən

Adjective

Tyrian (comparative more Tyrian, superlative most Tyrian)

1. From or relating to Tyre, Lebanon.
2. Having a purple colour produced by the dye Tyrian purple.
   • 1747, Thomas Gray, Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes:

     Still had she gazed; but 'midst the tide
     Two angel forms were seen to glide,
     The Genii of the stream;
     Their scaly armour's Tyrian hue
     Thro' richest purple to the view
     Betrayed a golden gleam.

   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     It was no longer torture-torn and hateful, as I had seen it when she was cursing her dead rival by the leaping flames, no longer icily terrible as in the judgment-hall, no longer rich, and sombre, and splendid, like a Tyrian cloth, as in the dwellings of the dead.

   • 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XVI, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 151:

     I was wondering at these hanging gardens amid the forest of pink and white marble, red sardonyx, blue-gray, and cream, and black bricks, and green and yellow and tyrian tiles, when the sight of a lansquenet guarding the entrance to a casern reminded me of the promise I had made the officer of the peltasts the night before.

Derived terms

• Tyrian purple

Translations

relating to Tyre

Georgian: ტვიროსული (ṭvirosuli) Portuguese: tírio

Noun

Tyrian (plural Tyrians)

1. Person from Tyre.

Translations

person from Tyre

Armenian: տյուրացի (tyuracʻi) Georgian: ტვიროსელი (ṭviroseli) Polish: Tyryjczyk (pl) m, Tyryjka (pl) f Portuguese: tírio

Anagrams

• intray, trainy, in-tray, nritya, rytina