Cadmean

English

Etymology

Latin

Adjective

Cadmean (comparative more Cadmean, superlative most Cadmean)

  1. Of or relating to Cadmus, a mythical prince of Thebes, said to have introduced into Greece the sixteen simple letters of the alphabet.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 Cadmean in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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