单词 | marcomanni |
释义 | Marcomannin. With plural agreement. An ancient Germanic people of the Suevian group who inhabited parts of central Europe to the north of the Danube. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > Germanic people > ancient Germanic peoples > [noun] > tribes > member of Suevea1387 Suevian1549 Rugian1561 Marcomanni1598 Nervii1598 Salian1614 1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales vi. 269 Neere unto the Hermundarians dwell the Narisci, the Marcomani, and Quadi. 1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. Ll3v The people called Marcomanni (which are now those of Morauia). 1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. x. 263 A king of the Marcomanni, a Suevic tribe. 1856 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire V. xliii. 63 The Marcomanni..had kept Tiberius himself at bay, and sent him back unlaurelled across the Danube. 1935 H. A. L. Fisher Hist. Europe I. viii. 84 In 161 A.D. a horde of barbarians, the Marcomanni from Bohemia, the Quadi from Moravia,..besieged Aquileia. 1976 K. C. King & D. R. McLintock Bostock's Handbk. Old High German (ed. 2) ii. 21 The Marcomanni are last heard of in Pannonia at the end of the fourth century, where they presumably became subjects of the Huns, who occupied Pannonia in 433. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1598 |
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