parthenian

/P AA0 R TH EH1 N IY0 AH0 N/
adjective
  1. 1

    Of or relating to Parthenius, a mountain in Arcadia.

noun
  1. 1

    (historical) A member of a lower-ranking Spartiate population which, according to tradition, left Laconia to go to Magna Graecia and founded Taras, modern Taranto, in the current region of Apulia in southern Italy.