Scytho-
(ˈsaɪθəʊ)
combining form of L. Scytha, Scythēs Scyth; prefixed (with hyphen) to ethnic ns. or adjs. with the sense ‘partly Scythian and partly{ddd}’, as in Scytho-Aryan, Scytho-Greek, Scytho-Median.
| 1844 W. D. Cooley Larcher's Notes on Herod. iv. cv. II. 57 The Scytho-Greeks. 1871 P. Smith Anc. Hist. East xxiii. §10 (1881) 472 note, Which is sometimes expressed by calling them Scytho-Aryans. Ibid. §12. 473 The Persian and Scytho-Median columns [of the Achæmenid inscriptions]. |