discobolusn.

Brit.

/dᵻˈskɒbələs/,

/dᵻˈskɒbl̩əs/, U.S.

/dᵻˈskɑbələs/

Inflections: Plural discoboli.

Forms: 1600s– discobolus, 1800s discobulus.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin discobolus.

Etymology: < classical Latin discobolus, discobolos discus-thrower, artistic representation of a discus-thrower < Hellenistic Greek δισκοβόλος discus-thrower < ancient Greek δίσκος disc n. + -βολος (see peribolos n.). Compare Middle French, French discobole (1555).Compare earlier discobole (rare) in this sense:1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxiv. viii. 502 Naucides was judged to be an excellent workman by the making of..a Discobole or coiter.

In ancient Greece and Rome: a thrower of the discus (discus n. 1a). Also: (the title of) an ancient statue representing a man in the act of throwing the discus.The statue was originally cast in bronze by the Athenian sculptor, Myron, in the mid 5th cent., and survives only in various Roman copies.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > athletics > [noun] > specific athletic sports other than running > throwing weight, shot, or ball > thrower

putter1574

discobolus1638

shot-putter1882

weight-thrower1895

hammer-thrower1899

1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients iii. iv. 291 What is there, I pray you, so crookedly distorted and painfully belaboured as that same Discobolus made by Myron?

1741 Mem. Martinus Scriblerus vi. 22 in A. Pope Wks. II The Discoboli..were naked to the middle only.

1821 M. Berry Jrnl. 31 Jan. (1865) III. 278 They found the Discobulus now at the Palais Massimo, a Hercules, and four beautiful fluted columns.

1877 F. C. L. Wraxall tr. V. Hugo Les Misérables ii. cxxx. 28 Vejanus the discobolus lives again in the rope-dancer Forioso.

1928 Classical Rev. 42 72 The Nisyros stele he believes to represent not a discobolus, but a pentathlete.

1999 S. Rushdie Ground beneath her Feet (2000) ii. 50 Sir Darius Xerxes Cama was in generous mood, imagining himself in ancient Greece or Persia, sweating among philosophers, discoboli, chariot racers, sprinters, maguses and kings.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	discobolus
释义	discobolusn. Brit. /dᵻˈskɒbələs/, /dᵻˈskɒbl̩əs/, U.S. /dᵻˈskɑbələs/ Inflections: Plural discoboli. Forms: 1600s– discobolus, 1800s discobulus. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin discobolus. Etymology: < classical Latin discobolus, discobolos discus-thrower, artistic representation of a discus-thrower < Hellenistic Greek δισκοβόλος discus-thrower < ancient Greek δίσκος disc n. + -βολος (see peribolos n.). Compare Middle French, French discobole (1555).Compare earlier discobole (rare) in this sense:1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxiv. viii. 502 Naucides was judged to be an excellent workman by the making of..a Discobole or coiter. In ancient Greece and Rome: a thrower of the discus (discus n. 1a). Also: (the title of) an ancient statue representing a man in the act of throwing the discus.The statue was originally cast in bronze by the Athenian sculptor, Myron, in the mid 5th cent., and survives only in various Roman copies. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > athletics > [noun] > specific athletic sports other than running > throwing weight, shot, or ball > thrower putter1574 discobolus1638 shot-putter1882 weight-thrower1895 hammer-thrower1899 1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients iii. iv. 291 What is there, I pray you, so crookedly distorted and painfully belaboured as that same Discobolus made by Myron? 1741 Mem. Martinus Scriblerus vi. 22 in A. Pope Wks. II The Discoboli..were naked to the middle only. 1821 M. Berry Jrnl. 31 Jan. (1865) III. 278 They found the Discobulus now at the Palais Massimo, a Hercules, and four beautiful fluted columns. 1877 F. C. L. Wraxall tr. V. Hugo Les Misérables ii. cxxx. 28 Vejanus the discobolus lives again in the rope-dancer Forioso. 1928 Classical Rev. 42 72 The Nisyros stele he believes to represent not a discobolus, but a pentathlete. 1999 S. Rushdie Ground beneath her Feet (2000) ii. 50 Sir Darius Xerxes Cama was in generous mood, imagining himself in ancient Greece or Persia, sweating among philosophers, discoboli, chariot racers, sprinters, maguses and kings. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1638
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