† down-mann.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: down adj., man n.¹

Etymology: < down adj. + man n.¹, after classical Latin dēpontānus old man (aged sixty) who was supposedly thrown from a bridge (attested in an 8th-cent. epitome of 2nd-cent. grammarian); this may reflect a relic of ancient river worship, where victims were sacrificed to a river god, or may refer, according to the Roman scholar Varro, to the bridge over which voters passed, an old man of sixty being no longer eligible to vote.

Obsolete rare.

A sick or infirm man.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased > with reduced vitality

pulled1616

down-man1670

untoned1803

wilted1809

collapsed1847

toneless1854

1670 W. Walker Idiomatologia Anglo-Latina 338 An old down-man [L. depontanus].

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018).

单词	down-man
释义	† down-mann. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: down adj., man n.¹ Etymology: < down adj. + man n.¹, after classical Latin dēpontānus old man (aged sixty) who was supposedly thrown from a bridge (attested in an 8th-cent. epitome of 2nd-cent. grammarian); this may reflect a relic of ancient river worship, where victims were sacrificed to a river god, or may refer, according to the Roman scholar Varro, to the bridge over which voters passed, an old man of sixty being no longer eligible to vote. Obsolete rare. A sick or infirm man. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased > with reduced vitality pulled1616 down-man1670 untoned1803 wilted1809 collapsed1847 toneless1854 1670 W. Walker Idiomatologia Anglo-Latina 338 An old down-man [L. depontanus]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018). < n.1670
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