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单词 homerite
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Homeriten.

Brit. /ˈhəʊmərʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈhoʊməˌraɪt/
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly a borrowing from Greek. Etymons: Latin Homeritae; Greek Ὁμηρῖται.
Etymology: < classical Latin Homeritae, plural (Pliny) and its etymon Hellenistic Greek Ὁμηρῖται, plural; compare -ite suffix1. Compare French Homerite (1648 in the passage translated in quot. 1660). Compare Himyarite n.
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.
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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.
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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).
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