Emilianadj.n.
/ɪˈmɪlɪən/ A. adj.
Of or pertaining to Emilia, a district of northern Italy (now part of the region of Emilia-Romagna), its inhabitants, or their dialect.
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Tuscanish1580
Tuscan1588
Umbrian1601
Emilian1660
Piedmontese1676
Romagnese1813
Romagnol1820
Friulian1880
Apulian1932
1660 E. Warcupp tr. F. Schottus Italy i. 82 At Piacenza begins the Emilian Way.
1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. xiv. 424 From Milan to Rome, the Æmilian and Flaminian highways opened an easy march of about four hundred miles.
1880 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 435/1 The side of the Apennines, where the great Emilian Way..preserves an unbroken straight line from Rimini to Piacenza.
1880 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 493/1 Gallo-Italian and more specially Emilian characteristics.
1904 E. G. Gardner Dukes & Poets in Ferrara i. 10 Transfigured in the glow of an Emilian sunset.
1936 A. W. Clapham Romanesque Archit. W. Europe iii. 41 It is..in the internal elevation that these Emilian churches differ most markedly from those of Lombardy.
1958 S. Runciman Sicilian Vespers vi. 88 He would have preferred to..bring the army over the Ligurian Alps, avoiding the lands of the Lombard and Emilian cities.
1958 S. Runciman Sicilian Vespers xiv. 233 On 1 May [1282] Guy of Montefeltro with a number of Tuscan and Emilian Ghibellines had ambushed the papal governor of Romagna.
B. n.
1. A native or inhabitant of Emilia.
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Lombard1377
Etrurian1546
Etruscan1563
Ligurian1601
Umbrian1601
Apulian1607
Calabrian1615
Tuscana1640
Piedmontese1647
Romagnese1762
Romagnol1768
Romagnan1832
Romagnola1845
Emilian1893
transpadane1896
Friulian1959
1893 G. A. Greene Ital. Lyrists p. xxx The Tuscans, Emilians, and Romans must be classed together.
2. The dialect of Italian spoken in Emilia.
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courtesan1549
Roman1561
Tuscan1568
Lombard1598
Neapolitan1598
Venetian1598
Lucchese1642
Milanese1642
Piedmontese1642
Romanesco1792
Sicilian1818
Ligurian1835
Bolognese1839
Corsican1855
Florentine1855
Veronese1872
Emilian1878
Romanaccio1963
Torinese1975
1878 Encycl. Brit. VIII. 701/1 The dialects..of Upper Italy, including Genoese, Piedmontese, Venetian, Æmilian, and Lombard.
1880 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 493/1 Characteristic of the Piedmontese, the Lombard, and the Emilian is the continual elision of the unaccented final vowels.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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