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▪ I. Carpathian, a.1|kɑːˈpeɪθɪən|
[f. Carpathos: see -ian.]
Of or pertaining to Carpathos or Karpathos, an island in the ægean Sea.
1634Milton Comus 872 By hoary Nereus wrincled look, And the Carpathian wisards hook. 1797Encycl. Brit. IV. 179/1 The sea which, from this island, is called the Carpathian Sea. 1925Glasgow Herald 30 July 6 In a spell of Carpathian silence.
▪ II. Carpathian, a.2 and n.|kɑːˈpeɪθɪən|
[Prob. immediately ad. G. Karpathen (Karpatisch adj.) Carpathian mountains:—L. Carpatus, Gr. καρπάτης ὄρος (Ptolemy), of uncertain ulterior etymology: see -ian.]
A. adj. Epithet of a range of mountains extending from northern Czechoslovakia to Romania; pertaining to the region of these mountains.
B. n. pl. The Carpathian mountains.
1673E. Browne Trav. Hungary, Servia 3 The Carpathian Mountains which divide Poland and Hungary. 1694Phil. Trans. R. Soc. 1693 XVII. 470 Next, Let us suppose this Ocean interspersed with wide and spacious Tracts of Land; with high ridges of Mountains such as the Pyrenean, the Alps, the Apennine, the Carpathian in Europe. 1776Gibbon Decl. & F. I. ix. 218 A ridge of hills, rising from the Danube, and called the Carpathian mountains, covered Germany on the side of Dacia or Hungary. 1835J. B. Robertson tr. F. von Schlegel's Philos. of Hist. ii. 84 The great Danubian countries, extending from the South of the Carpathian mountains, down to the other mountainous chain northward of Greece. 1845Encycl. Metrop. XX. 390/1 The Carpathians, extending from West to East in a semicircular line of 200 leagues, are, according to Beudant, not so much a chain as a high terrace..terminated at both extremities by high mountain masses. 1862Mackenzie & Irby Across Carpathians i. 1 The Carpathian or Krapack chain of mountains incloses the kingdom of Hungary on three sides, in the form of a bow... In the north..it fully merits the epithet from which etymologists have derived its name—Chrib, Chrebet, the high mountain, or still more literally, the high back. 1919G. B. Shaw Inca of Perusalem 215 Before ten years have elapsed every civilized country from the Carpathians to the Rocky Mountains will be a Republic. 1932J. S. Huxley Probl. Relative Growth vii. 206 The Red Deer is by nature a forest species; driven from the lowlands,..it grows stunted. This, however, takes no account of the difference in relative size of antlers between Scotch and e.g. Carpathian strains. 1959Chambers's Encycl. III. 131/2 The territory of the Carpathians is shared by Czechoslovakia, the U.S.S.R., Poland, Hungary and Rumania. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia III. 947/1 Today, each of the Carpathian countries has its own general geological maps. |