Cimmeriann.adj.

/sɪˈmɪərɪən/

Forms: Also 1500s–1600s Cym-, 1600s Cymm-, Cim-, 1900s Kimm-.

Etymology: < Latin Cimmerius (Greek Κιμμέριος) pertaining to the Cimmerii + -an suffix.

A. n. One of the Cimmerii:

a. A member of a nomadic people of antiquity, the earliest known inhabitants of the Crimea, who overran Asia Minor in the 7th century b.c.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > ethnicities > race > person of mythical races > [noun]

pygmya1387

pygman?a1425

pygmeana1540

Cimmerian1594

yahoo1726

the world > people > ethnicities > ancient peoples of the Middle East and Asia Minor > [noun] > person

Idumaeanc897

PhilistineeOE

PhilisteeOE

Philistianc1375

Midianitea1382

Moabitea1382

Chaldee1382

Scytha1387

Ammonitea1393

Alana1450

Amorite1530

Kenite1535

Scythian1543

Nabatean1555

Illyrian1584

Sabaean1607

Hittite1608

Homerite1613

White Hun1653

Judahite1708

Alarodian1709

Cimmerian1797

Thamudite1833

Himyarite1842

Akkadian1857

Saka1880

Ephthalite1882

Kassite1888

Hurrian1911

Hattian1914

Tarsian1914

Subarian1923

Gutian1928

Urartian1934

Nesite1949

Luvian1961

Eblaite1976

1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus ii. iii. 72 Your swartie Cymerion.

1797 Encycl. Brit. V. 9/1 [The Cimbri] are said to have been descended from the Asiatic Cimmerians.

1886 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 577/1 The Cimmerians reached Asia Minor through Thrace.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 720/1 The Phrygian power was broken in the 9th or 8th century b.c. by the Cimmerians, who entered Asia Minor through Armenia.

1950 H. L. Lorimer Homer & Monuments ii. 52 The description of the country of the Kimmerians..would suit their settlements on the north coast of the Black Sea.

1950 H. L. Lorimer Homer & Monuments v. 286 The conflict between Kimmerian and Scyth in South Russia.

b. One of a people fabled by the ancients to live in perpetual darkness.

ΚΠ

1871 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Odyssey I. xi. 267 There the people dwell, Of the Cimmerians, in eternal cloud And darkness.

B. adj.

a. Of or pertaining to the ancient Cimmerii or their territories.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > ethnicities > ancient peoples of the Middle East and Asia Minor > [adjective]

MidianitishOE

MoabitishOE

Ammonitea1325

Moabitea1325

Amalekitea1382

Midianitea1382

Amorite1530

Scythian1567

Philistian1569

Sabaeana1586

Scythian-likea1599

Nabatean1614

Philistean1623

Scythic1623

Chaldean1732

Alarodian1737

Philistinian1773

Judahite1797

Philistine1842

Moabitic1851

Himyaritic1854

Akkadian1856

Scythized1861

Cimmerian1862

Idumaean1863

Himyaric1864

Hittite1871

Kassite1894

Hattian1908

Khaldian1908

Kenite1911

Hattic1913

Ephthalite1920

Subarian1923

Hurrian1928

Gutian1929

Saka1958

Luvian1963

Urartian1965

Eblaite1976

1862 Chambers's Encycl. III. 35/1 The Cimmerian Bosporus (Strait of Yenikale).

1886 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 577/1 The Dniester was the grave of the Cimmerian kings.

1917 E. Pound in Poetry (Chicago) Aug. 251 To the Kimmerian lands and peopled cities..came we.

1950 H. L. Lorimer Homer & Monuments v. 306 The result of Kimmerian and Scythian invasions.

1959 Chambers's Encycl. III. 573/2 Cimmerii were a people who in the Homeric tradition dwelt beyond the ocean in perpetual darkness... They..were penned by the Scythians in the Crimea..and in the Taman peninsula; the ancient ‘Cimmerian Bosporus’ was the strait between these two lands.

b. Of or belonging to the legendary Cimmerii. Hence, proverbially used as a qualification of dense darkness, gloom, or night, or of things or persons shrouded in thick darkness.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > [adjective] > intensely dark

pitchya1522

Cimmerian1598

pitch dark1704

pit-mirk1728

pitchy dark1732

pitch mirk?1795

as black, or ugly, as sin1827

1598 J. Marston Certaine Satyres in Metamorph. Pigmalions Image 39 That such Cymerian darknes should inuolue A quaint conceit, that he could not resolue.

1645 J. Milton L'Allegro in Poems 30 There under Ebon shades..In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. 206 The proverbial expression of Cimmerian darkness was originally borrowed from the description of Homer (in the eleventh book of the Odyssey).

1801 H. M. Williams Sketches Manners French Republic I. xviii. 229 The Cimmerian night of the middle ages.

1880 ‘E. Kirke’ Life J. A. Garfield 15 A dense fog..shrouded the lonely mountain in Cimmerian darkness.

Derivatives

Ciˈmmerianism n. dense darkness (of ignorance, etc.).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > intellectual ignorance > [noun]

thesterc897

blindness971

theosterleykc1000

darkness?c1425

offuscation1502

obscurationa1550

Cimmerianism1630

benightment1651

blindfoldedness1863

benightedness1865

1630 J. Taylor Honour Conceal'd Ded., in Wks. iii. 111 The Leathean Den of obliuious Cimerianisme.

1824 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 16 292 The awful cimmerianism of the philologer and classical critic of the Edinburgh Review.

† Ciˈmmerianize v. Obsolete (transitive) to make totally dark.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > make dark [verb (transitive)]

thesterc888

darkc1300

endark?c1400

darken?1521

endarken1569

Cimmerianize1600

sable1610

blinda1643

pitch1664

embrown1667

disilluminate1865

1600 C. Tourneur Transformed Metamorph. Prol. sig. A4 This blacke Cymerianized night.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	cimmerian
释义	Cimmeriann.adj. /sɪˈmɪərɪən/ Forms: Also 1500s–1600s Cym-, 1600s Cymm-, Cim-, 1900s Kimm-. Etymology: < Latin Cimmerius (Greek Κιμμέριος) pertaining to the Cimmerii + -an suffix. A. n. One of the Cimmerii: a. A member of a nomadic people of antiquity, the earliest known inhabitants of the Crimea, who overran Asia Minor in the 7th century b.c. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > race > person of mythical races > [noun] pygmya1387 pygman?a1425 pygmeana1540 Cimmerian1594 yahoo1726 the world > people > ethnicities > ancient peoples of the Middle East and Asia Minor > [noun] > person Idumaeanc897 PhilistineeOE PhilisteeOE Philistianc1375 Midianitea1382 Moabitea1382 Chaldee1382 Scytha1387 Ammonitea1393 Alana1450 Amorite1530 Kenite1535 Scythian1543 Nabatean1555 Illyrian1584 Sabaean1607 Hittite1608 Homerite1613 White Hun1653 Judahite1708 Alarodian1709 Cimmerian1797 Thamudite1833 Himyarite1842 Akkadian1857 Saka1880 Ephthalite1882 Kassite1888 Hurrian1911 Hattian1914 Tarsian1914 Subarian1923 Gutian1928 Urartian1934 Nesite1949 Luvian1961 Eblaite1976 1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus ii. iii. 72 Your swartie Cymerion. 1797 Encycl. Brit. V. 9/1 [The Cimbri] are said to have been descended from the Asiatic Cimmerians. 1886 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 577/1 The Cimmerians reached Asia Minor through Thrace. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 720/1 The Phrygian power was broken in the 9th or 8th century b.c. by the Cimmerians, who entered Asia Minor through Armenia. 1950 H. L. Lorimer Homer & Monuments ii. 52 The description of the country of the Kimmerians..would suit their settlements on the north coast of the Black Sea. 1950 H. L. Lorimer Homer & Monuments v. 286 The conflict between Kimmerian and Scyth in South Russia. b. One of a people fabled by the ancients to live in perpetual darkness. ΚΠ 1871 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Odyssey I. xi. 267 There the people dwell, Of the Cimmerians, in eternal cloud And darkness. B. adj. a. Of or pertaining to the ancient Cimmerii or their territories. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > ancient peoples of the Middle East and Asia Minor > [adjective] MidianitishOE MoabitishOE Ammonitea1325 Moabitea1325 Amalekitea1382 Midianitea1382 Amorite1530 Scythian1567 Philistian1569 Sabaeana1586 Scythian-likea1599 Nabatean1614 Philistean1623 Scythic1623 Chaldean1732 Alarodian1737 Philistinian1773 Judahite1797 Philistine1842 Moabitic1851 Himyaritic1854 Akkadian1856 Scythized1861 Cimmerian1862 Idumaean1863 Himyaric1864 Hittite1871 Kassite1894 Hattian1908 Khaldian1908 Kenite1911 Hattic1913 Ephthalite1920 Subarian1923 Hurrian1928 Gutian1929 Saka1958 Luvian1963 Urartian1965 Eblaite1976 1862 Chambers's Encycl. III. 35/1 The Cimmerian Bosporus (Strait of Yenikale). 1886 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 577/1 The Dniester was the grave of the Cimmerian kings. 1917 E. Pound in Poetry (Chicago) Aug. 251 To the Kimmerian lands and peopled cities..came we. 1950 H. L. Lorimer Homer & Monuments v. 306 The result of Kimmerian and Scythian invasions. 1959 Chambers's Encycl. III. 573/2 Cimmerii were a people who in the Homeric tradition dwelt beyond the ocean in perpetual darkness... They..were penned by the Scythians in the Crimea..and in the Taman peninsula; the ancient ‘Cimmerian Bosporus’ was the strait between these two lands. b. Of or belonging to the legendary Cimmerii. Hence, proverbially used as a qualification of dense darkness, gloom, or night, or of things or persons shrouded in thick darkness. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > [adjective] > intensely dark pitchya1522 Cimmerian1598 pitch dark1704 pit-mirk1728 pitchy dark1732 pitch mirk?1795 as black, or ugly, as sin1827 1598 J. Marston Certaine Satyres in Metamorph. Pigmalions Image 39 That such Cymerian darknes should inuolue A quaint conceit, that he could not resolue. 1645 J. Milton L'Allegro in Poems 30 There under Ebon shades..In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. 206 The proverbial expression of Cimmerian darkness was originally borrowed from the description of Homer (in the eleventh book of the Odyssey). 1801 H. M. Williams Sketches Manners French Republic I. xviii. 229 The Cimmerian night of the middle ages. 1880 ‘E. Kirke’ Life J. A. Garfield 15 A dense fog..shrouded the lonely mountain in Cimmerian darkness. Derivatives Ciˈmmerianism n. dense darkness (of ignorance, etc.). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > intellectual ignorance > [noun] thesterc897 blindness971 theosterleykc1000 darkness?c1425 offuscation1502 obscurationa1550 Cimmerianism1630 benightment1651 blindfoldedness1863 benightedness1865 1630 J. Taylor Honour Conceal'd Ded., in Wks. iii. 111 The Leathean Den of obliuious Cimerianisme. 1824 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 16 292 The awful cimmerianism of the philologer and classical critic of the Edinburgh Review. † Ciˈmmerianize v. Obsolete (transitive) to make totally dark. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > make dark [verb (transitive)] thesterc888 darkc1300 endark?c1400 darken?1521 endarken1569 Cimmerianize1600 sable1610 blinda1643 pitch1664 embrown1667 disilluminate1865 1600 C. Tourneur Transformed Metamorph. Prol. sig. A4 This blacke Cymerianized night. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1594
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