English
Xenophanes
Xenophanes comes from Ancient Greek Ξενοφάνης.
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEΞενοφάνηςXenophánēs
- Englishearliest quotation 1931Xenophanes
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEΞενοφάνηςXenophánēs
- Englishearliest quotation 1931Xenophanes
Earliest quotation: 1931, Hermann Schneider, Margaret Minna Green: “Lucretius was the Xenophanes of Roman culture, a great…”
The story
The name means “of foreign appearance” and is composed of ξένος (xénos, “foreign”) + φαίνω (phaínō, “appear”).
Every English word from Ancient Greek Ξενοφάνης
Today it means
name A Greek given name.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Ancient Greek Ξενοφάνης / Xenophanes