[b-greek] Re: Roots

From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Sat Jan 06 2001 - 07:32:56 EST


At 6:25 PM -0800 1/5/01, Dagoberto Garcia wrote:
>Can someone help me understand what the root "tine" in philistine means?
>Whether in Latin or Greek or both.

Nothing as such. Philistia and Palaestia are two forms of ancient names for
Palestine both derived from the name of the people that settled along the
southwest coast of Palestine in the 14th c. B.C., possibly arriving from
Crete originally. The element in question would be "-ine" rather than
"tine"--and that's simply an anglicized form of an adjectival ending -inus:
"concerned with, having to do with."

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