| 释义 |
Emilian, a. and n.|ɪˈmɪlɪən|
Also 8–9 æmilian.
[f. Emilia (see below) + -an.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to Emilia, a district of northern Italy (now part of the region of Emilia-Romagna), its inhabitants, or their dialect.
B. n.
1. A native or inhabitant of Emilia.
2. The dialect of Italian spoken in Emilia.
1660E. Warcupp tr. Schottus' Italy i. 82 At Piacenza begins the Emilian Way. 1776Gibbon Decl. & F. I. xiv. 424 From Milan to Rome, the æmilian and Flaminian highways opened an easy march of about four hundred miles. 1878Encycl. Brit. VIII. 701/1 The dialects..of Upper Italy, including Genoese, Piedmontese, Venetian, æmilian, and Lombard. 1880Ibid. XIII. 435/1 The side of the Apennines, where the great Emilian Way..preserves an unbroken straight line from Rimini to Piacenza. Ibid. 493/1 Characteristic of the Piedmontese, the Lombard, and the Emilian is the continual elision of the unaccented final vowels. Ibid., Gallo-Italian and more specially Emilian characteristics. 1893G. A. Greene Ital. Lyrists p. xxx, The Tuscans, Emilians, and Romans must be classed together. 1904E. G. Gardner Dukes & Poets in Ferrara i. 10 Transfigured in the glow of an Emilian sunset. 1936A. W. Clapham Romanesque Archit. iii. 41 It is..in the internal elevation that these Emilian churches differ most markedly from those of Lombardy. 1958S. Runciman Sicilian Vespers vi. 88 He would have preferred to..bring the army over the Ligurian Alps, avoiding the lands of the Lombard and Emilian cities. Ibid. xiv. 233 On 1 May [1282] Guy of Montefeltro with a number of Tuscan and Emilian Ghibellines had ambushed the papal governor of Romagna. |