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Rhætian, n. and a.|ˈriːʃən|
Also Rhe-, Rætian.
[f. Rhætia (see next) + -ian.]
A. n.
a. A native or inhabitant of Rhætia or the Rhætian Alps in eastern Switzerland.
b. The name of either of two languages: (a) = Rhæto-Romance n.; (b) = Rhætic n.
1600Holland tr. Livy's Romane Hist. v. 202 And doubtlesse, the nations about the Alpes, especially the Rhetians, had their beginning thus. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 33 The Italians call a Badger Tasso, the Rhetians, Tasch. Ibid. 40 The herbe Wolfbanie..is poison to Foxes..as the Alpine Rhætians affirme. 1779Coxe Trav. Switzerland III. lxxix. 281 The Rhetian, or as it is more commonly called the Romansh, which is the vernacular tongue among the greatest part of the Grisons. 1828Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XIX. 756/1 The Romansh, or ancient Rhætian. 1867Chambers's Encycl. IX. 246/1 A third Teutonic people, the Goths, entered the country of the Rhætians, which nearly corresponded with the Grisons. 1933L. Bloomfield Language iv. 64 The inscriptions in ancient Rhaetian show this language to have been an off-shoot of Etruscan. 1939L. H. Gray Foundations of Lang. xii. 384 The Raetian of Italy has also been regarded as akin [to Etruscan]. 1970Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Jan. 40/2 The five national tongues—French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Rumanian—and..their five regional varieties—Occitanian or Provençal..Catalan..Dalmatian..Romansch or Rhaetian (now strictly West Rhaetian, for that alone has evolved a recognized written language), and Sardinian. 1972W. B. Lockwood Panorama Indo-European Lang. iii. 23 The sphere of Latin..embraced the Alpine area, where it replaced Rhaetian, a language of unknown affinities attested in a handful of inscriptions.
B. adj.
1. Of or pertaining to Rhætia or the Rhætian Alps.
1618H. Wotton Let. in L. P. Smith Life & Lett. Sir H. Wotton (1907) II. 149 At the next general assembly of the Rhaetian communities. 1880–1Trans. Philol. Soc. 403 The Rhætian language is also spoken in the large district of the Engadin. 1888Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 45/2 Bormio and Valtellina were annexed..in 1815 (despite the remonstrances of the Rhætian leagues) to the kingdom of Lombardo-Venetia.
2. Geol. Of, pertaining to, or designating the highest (youngest) of the three stages constituting the Upper Triassic in Europe. Also absol.
1955G. G. Woodford tr. Gignoux's Stratigraphic Geol. vii. 324 This Swabian facies of the Rhaetian is found everywhere in Europe outside of the Alpine domain. 1959Wells & Kirkaldy Outl. Hist. Geol. (ed. 4) xv. 232 Ammonite specialists..recognise a Rhaetian Stage as the topmost stage of the Triassic System. 1966D. T. Donovan Stratigraphy viii. 178 In 1864 E. Renevier proposed the Rhaetian Stage for the Rhaetic Formation. Ibid., It is difficult to decide whether the Rhaetian fauna as a whole is more like that of the Trias or the Lias. 1969Proc. Geol. Soc. Aug. 154 The use of Rhaetian, not Rhaetic, as the name for the latest Triassic age/standard stage is supported. It has been agreed (by the Stratigraphy Committee) to retire the word ‘Rhaetic’. |