单词 | homerite |
释义 | Homeriten. historical. Now disused. Chiefly in plural. A member of an ancient people who inhabited the south-western part of the Arabian peninsula and ruled much of southern Arabia until the 6th cent.The commoner term is now Himyarite. ΘΚΠ 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 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 665 This Hellisthæus had warred against the Homerites for quarrell of Religion. 1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed i. viii. 23 Arabia upon the red sea side, was formerly inhabited by several people, principally the Sabaeans, since called the Homerites [Fr. Homerites]. 1708 S. Ockley Conquest of Syria 111 Homerites, (a warlike Tribe of the Arabs). 1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall V. l. 177 The towers of Saana, and the marvellous reservoir of Merab, were constructed by the kings of the Homerites. 1842 J. C. Prichard Nat. Hist. Man 143 The dialect of the Hhimyarite Arabs, the Homerites of the Greeks. 1886 W. P. Dickson tr. T. Mommsen Hist. Rome II. vii. 295 In the middle of the fourth century the kingdom of the Homerites was united with that of the Axomites. 1923 J. Hornell Indian Boat Designs 197 Aden..was under the same Arab ruler as Muza—the king of the Homerites and Sabaeans. 1988 M. Whitby Emperor Maurice & his Historian vii. 216 In 540 Khusro cited the Homerites as an example of Roman ambition that threatened Persian interests. Derivatives Homeˈritic adj. [compare French homéritique (1791 or earlier)] = Himyaritic adj. at Himyarite n. Derivatives. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Afro-Asiatic > [adjective] > Semitic > Arabic > of specific Arabic languages > Himyaritic Homeritic1791 Himyaritic1854 Himyaric1864 1791 tr. G. Mariti Trav. through Cyprus, Syria, & Palestine II. xvi. 282 It appears that these Homeritic characters has already fallen into oblivion, in the time of Mahomet. 1886 W. P. Dickson tr. T. Mommsen Provinces Rom. Empire II. 317 The same region between the Roman and the Homeritic frontiers, and the same state of things are in the view of the Axomite king, when he writes. 1951 A. C. Johnson Egypt & Rom. Empire vi. 142 The development of the Homeritic and Axumite kingdoms may have been owing to the diversion of trade to the Red Sea route. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1613 |
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