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Ligurian, a. and n.|laɪˈgjʊərɪən, lɪg-|
[f. L. Liguria (f. Ligur-, nom. Ligur, Ligus = Gr. λίγυς, pl. λίγυες Ligurian) + -an.]
a. adj. Belonging to the country anciently called Liguria in Cisalpine Gaul, including Genoa, parts of Piedmont and Savoy, etc. Now sometimes used by ethnologists as the distinctive epithet of a race of mankind supposed to be typically represented by the ancient Ligurians or their modern descendants.
b. n. An inhabitant or native of Liguria; a person belonging to the Ligurian race; also, a Ligurian bee. Also, the Indo-European language of the ancient Ligurians; the Gallo-Italian dialect of this region.
Ligurian bee: a kind of honey-bee, Apis ligustrica, indigenous in southern Europe. Ligurian republic: the republic of Genoa, 1797–1805.
1601Holland Pliny I. 57 Of the Ligurians, the most renowned beyond the Alpes, are the Sallij, Deceates, and Oxubij. 1632Lithgow Trav. i. 11 [I am] vnwilling to make relation of my passing through..the Sauoyean, and Ligurian Alpes. 1795Gifford Mæviad (1796) 58 Together we explored the stoic page Of the Ligurian, stern tho' beardless sage [Persius]. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) X. 72/2 There is a great disagreement among authors concerning the origin of the Ligurians, though most probably they were descended from the Gauls. 1813Southey Life Nelson vi, About seventy sail of vessels belonging to the Ligurian republic. 1835G. C. Lewis Ess. Romance Lang. i. 50 The diffusion of the Latin over Italy, in the place of the Etruscan, the Oscan, the Ligurian, and other native dialects, has been already noted. 1841W. Spalding Italy & It. Isl. III. 54 It is best exemplified by the constitution of the Italian Republic, which was closely copied in the Ligurian. 1875J. Hunter Bee-keeping 141 (heading) Ligurian bees and the methods of Ligurianizing an apiary. Ibid., The name ‘Ligurian’ appears to have been given by Spinola, who described it in 1805. Ibid., On the 19th of July, 1859, the Ligurian Bee was introduced to England. Ibid. 143 Many Bee-keepers..have successfully replaced their Black Queens with Ligurians, and so eventually succeeded in Ligurianizing their whole apiary. 1888[see Iapygian a. and n.]. 1889I. Taylor Origin Aryans 214 The primitive Aryans must be sought for among the four European races—Scandinavian, Celtic, Ligurian, and Iberian. 1909Trans. Amer. Philol. Assoc. XL. 81 The net result of the study is that by far the greater part of what is called Ligurian is strictly Gallic. 1927C. H. Grandgent From Latin to Italian 6 In the northwest of Italy we find the Piedmontese dialect, and, to the south, along the Gulf of Genoa from Monaco to Carrara, the Ligurian. 1933R. S. Conway et al. Prae-Italic Dial. Italy II. ii. 70 Of Ligurian properly so called very little can be said to be known. 1939L. H. Gray Foundations of Lang. xi. 335 In the general area of Lago Maggiore, some seventy-two inscriptions..have been discovered... Their language may well represent the sole known remnants of Ligurian, which would seem to have stood midway between Italic and Celtic. 1968Encycl. Brit. XII. 711/2 The dialects may be divided into six major classes: 1. Gallo-Italian: (a) Piedmontese; (b) Ligurian; (c) Lombard; (d) Emilian [etc.]. 1974R. A. Hall External Hist. Romance Lang. iii. 51 Ligurian, used along what is now the Italian and French Riveria [sic], and perhaps to the north of this area in present-day Piedmont and Savoy.
Hence Liˈgurianize v. trans., to make (a colony of bees) Ligurian.
1875[see above]. |