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Meaning of Pherecydes | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
/ˌfɛɹɪˈsaɪdiːz/

Definitions

  1. An Ancient Greek thinker from the island of Syros, who authored a cosmogony that bridged the mythological thought of Hesiod and pre-Socratic philosophy (fl. 6th century BC)
  2. An historian and genealogist from Athens (fl. c. 465 BC)
  3. An historian from the Greek island of Leros, possibly the same person as the Athenian historian (before 480–477 BC)

Equivalents

Français Phérécyde
Italiano Ferecide
Русский Фереки́д

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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