Lacedaemonian

• Lacedæmonian

From Lacedaemonia +‎ -an.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /læsədɪˈməʊnɪ.ən/
• Rhymes: -əʊniən

Lacedaemonian (comparative more Lacedaemonian, superlative most Lacedaemonian)

1. Of or pertaining to Lacedaemonia (Laconia) in Greece.
2. spartan (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Lacedaemonian (plural Lacedaemonians)

1. An inhabitant of Lacedaemonia (Laconia) in Greece.
   • 1579, Plutarke of Chæronea [i.e., Plutarch], “Agis and Cleomenes”, in Thomas North, transl., The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, […], London: […] Richard Field, →OCLC, page 851:

     […] yet if in temperance, thriftines, & noble mind (exceeding all their vanities) he could come to reſtore the Lacedæmonians againe vnto equalitie: that then in deede he ſhould be counted a noble king.

   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     For Kallikrates died out of the battle, he came to the army the most beautiful man of the Greeks of that day - not only of the Lacedæmonians themselves, but of the other Greeks also.