periegetic en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˌpɛ.ɹi.əˈd͡ʒɛ.tɪk/ (General-American)
- /-ɾɪk/ (General-American)
- /ˌpɛ.ɹɪ.əˈd͡ʒɛ.tɪk/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
Borrowed from Koine Greek περιηγητικός (periēgētikós, “of or pertaining to a periegete (a writer of periegeses); descriptive”), from περιηγητής (periēgētḗs, “periegete”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic, suffix forming adjectives, meaning ‘of or pertaining to, in the manner of’”).
Meanings
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(not-comparable, rare) Relating to a periegesis.
A periegesis is usually understood to be a geographical catalogue, cast in the form of a tour, often of a local area but sometimes more extended in scope. The form is related to local history. Modem scholarship has established that there was a specifically periegetic form of historiography, stretching back at least to the third century b.c.; […]
2001, Ian Rutherford, “Tourism and the Sacred: Pausanias and the Traditions of Greek Pilgrimage”, in Susan E[llen] Alcock, John F. Cherry, Jaś Elsner, editors, Pausanias: Travel and Memory in Roman Greece, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 45: