What's the difference between phoenician and punic?

Phoenician


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Phoenica.
  • (n.) A native or inhabitant of Phoenica.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An acquaintance of mine, meanwhile, tried – briefly and without success – to resurrect an interest in the unfashionable Phoenician deity Baal.
  • (2) The temple of Baal Shamin was built in the first century AD, a house of worship dedicated to the Phoenician god of storms and the sky, who evolved into a major deity worshipped during the time of Queen Zenobia and her husband Septimius Odaenathus, the King of Kings of Palmyra.
  • (3) Carthage, a former Phoenician city-state in present-day Tunis, had an empire extending over most of the north African coast as well as the southern tip of Iberia.
  • (4) Sirte, built near the site of the ancient Phoenician city of Macomedes-Euphranta, is one of Gaddafi's key military hubs.
  • (5) The prehistoric, ancient Phoenician, Greek and Roman art from the National Museum in Tripoli is superb.
  • (6) Byblos, a once groovy Mediterranean resort in Lebanon, is possibly the first Phoenician city, founded in 7000BC – not as old as Jericho, maybe, but at least it can claim continuous habitation since 5,000 BC.
  • (7) The date palm's Latin name, Phoenix dactylifera , refers to the sea-faring Phoenicians who spread its cultivation.
  • (8) The monument has been variously attributed to Greeks, Romans, Phoenicians and the Jews.
  • (9) This haplotype is quite uncommon in Europeans and may reflect gene flow from Eastern populations (Phoenicians?)

Punic


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the ancient Carthaginians.
  • (a.) Characteristic of the ancient Carthaginians; faithless; treacherous; as, Punic faith.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Quinn and her colleagues, a group of Punic archaeologists and historians from Italy and the Netherlands, who publish their findings in the journal Antiquity – where the argument has been rumbling on for several years – completely reject the latter theory.
  • (2) Hannibal, son of general Hamilcar who led troops in the first Punic war, gave Carthage its most glorious hour.
  • (3) So ended the second Punic war, with Rome the victor.

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