Numidiann.adj.

Brit.

/njuːˈmɪdɪən/,

/njᵿˈmɪdɪən/, U.S.

/n(j)uˈmɪdiən/

Forms: late Middle English– Numidian, 1600s Numidaean, 1800s Numidion (in Compounds).

Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Numidia , -an suffix.

Etymology: < Numidia, the former name of a country in North Africa (classical Latin Numidia ; < Numida an inhabitant of this country ( < Hellenistic Greek Νομάδα , accusative of Νομάς Numidian, use as proper name of ancient Greek νομάς nomad n.) + -ia -ia suffix¹) + -an suffix.With Numidian marble compare classical Latin marmor Numidicus (Pliny), and also Hellenistic Greek νομάς λίθος , classical Latin lapis Numidicus (Suetonius), Middle French pierre Numidicque (1535), Italian Numidice (1545 in the passage translated in quot. 1592 for Numidian marble n. at Compounds). Numedia (also Numeþia) occurs as a place name in English contexts in the Old English translation of Orosius Hist. (compare also Numeþe Numidians, as an ethnonym in the same text); the forms Numidia, Numedie, Numid occur in Middle English.

Chiefly historical.

A. n.

A native or inhabitant of Numidia, an ancient kingdom and later a Roman province, situated in North Africa in an area corresponding roughly to present-day Algeria.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > native or inhabitant of North Africa > native or inhabitant of other regions > [noun]

Numidian?a1425

Nubianc1450

Massylian1606

catadupes1607

Mauritanian1607

Marmarican1627

Niam-Niam1861

Watusi1863

Zande1873

Twa1878

Tutsi1929

Cyrenaican1942

Ubangi1953

Chadian1960

Saharan1970

Sahrawi1976

?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 24 (MED) Betwix Egipte and þe land þat es called Numid er xii day iourneez in desertes. Þe folk þat wones in þat cuntree er called Numidianes, and þai are cristned. Bot þai er blakk of colour.

?1556 N. Smyth tr. Herodian Hist. sig. F.f.iii Thinhabitauntes are called Numidians, or Nomades, because y^t often tymes they chaunge theyr habitations, & cary theyr housholdes from one place to another in wagons.

1566 W. Adlington tr. Apuleius .XI. Bks. Golden Asse sig. Aiv He calleth him selfe, halfe a Numidian, and halfe a Getulian.

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxix. 731 Then the kingdome fell by descent, according to the custome and manner of the Numidians [L. Numidas], unto Desalces the late kings brother.

1614 A. Gorges tr. Lucan Pharsalia iv. 156 The vagrant fierce Numidæans [L. Numidae].

1661 T. Ross tr. Silius Italicus Second Punick War i. 9 Here the Numidians insulting fill One quarter of the Camp.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 298 And fierce Numidians [L. Numidae infreni] there your Frontiers bound.

1719 J. Barker Exilius (ed. 2) II. ii. 211 By this Means the Numidians began to be in divers Divisions.

1757 A. Butler Lives Saints III. 4 Seventy bishops, chiefly Numidians.

1815 C. Lloyd tr. V. Alfieri Sophonisba ii. i, in tr. V. Alfieri Trag. III. 198 In my realm I might securely have transported thee With my Numidians.

1841 G. Borrow Zincali I. i. vii. 113 The tribes who speak the Shilha language, and who are the descendants of the ancient Numidians.

1878 R. B. Smith Carthage xviii. 338 [The huts] of the Numidians..were made of wattled reeds thatched with straw.

1906 R. Kipling Puck of Pook's Hill 147 ‘Was your nurse a—a Romaness too?’ ‘No, a Numidian... A dear, fat, brown thing.’

1957 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 615/1 Numidians were divided into two great tribes, the Massyli on the east, and the Massaesyli on the west.

1995 W. Weaver tr. U. Eco Island of Day Before 350 The Numidians were considered vulgar because they kissed no one but their children.

B. adj.

Of or relating to Numidia or the Numidians.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Africa > [adjective] > North Africa > ancient regions

Marmaric?a1425

Mauritanian?1556

Numidian1567

Marmarican1593

Cyrenaican1607

Saitic1678

Mauritanic1776

Meroite1844

Meroitic1852

Saite1866

1567 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure II. vii. f. 56^v What ment cruell Scipio, when so sone as Syphax was taken, he did not streight way dispatche him to Rome, to present the glorious sight of the Numidian king to ye Romane people?

1593 J. Eliot Ortho-epia Gallica i. 18 French-fine, Italian-glorious, Numidian, Arabesko.

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxx. 752 They would enlarge and set at libertie all the Numidian captives [L. Numidas captivos] that lay in prison at Rome.

1655 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa II. i. v. 75 The first divisions consisted of 8000. Numidian Horse leade by the Gallant Maharball, whose Meene was as full of virtve as Courage, and whose actions sufficiently justify'd his Phisiognomy.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis viii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 462 Mulciber assigns the proper Place For Carians, and th'ungirt Numidian race.

1713 J. Addison Cato iv. 54 The traytor Syphax..Flew off at once with his Numidian Horse.

1757 A. Butler Lives Saints III. 3 Certain false Numidian zealots.

1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound iii. i. 98 All my being, Like him whom the Numidian seps did thaw Into a dew with poison, is dissolved.

a1862 H. D. Thoreau Cape Cod (1865) ii. 25 For their houses on shore..it would be more agreeable to the imagination to see one of their vessels turned bottom upward, in the Numidian fashion.

1905 T. Hodgkin in L. Creighton Life & Lett. T. Hodgkin (1917) xi. 229 I wish I had come to this Numidian land when I was younger.

1957 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 615/1 At the end of the [second Punic] war,..the Numidian kingdom surrounded Carthage except towards the sea.

1993 H. Chadwick in J. McManners Oxf. Hist. Christianity i. 49 She had her majordomo appointed..with the support of the main body of Numidian bishops.

Compounds

Numidian crane n. now rare the demoiselle crane, Anthropoides virgo, of North Africa and Eurasia.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > order Gruiformes > [noun] > family Gruidae (cranes) > genus Anthropoides > anthropoides virgo or demoiselle

demoiselle1687

kulang1698

Numidian crane1767

buffoon-bird1774

1767 Philos. Trans. 1766 (Royal Soc.) 56 210 The next I shall mention is the Grus Numidica, Numidian crane, or Demoiselle.

1893 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. 1 111 In Europe, besides the G[rus] communis already mentioned, we have as an inhabitant that which is generally known as the Numidian Crane or Demoiselle..distinguished from every other by its long white ear-tufts.

1944 Hesperia 13 35 The legend αῐών accompanies the self-renewing phoenix (Numidian crane with radiate nimbus) on coins of Antoninus Pius.

Numidian marble n. a yellowish variety of marble.

ΚΠ

1592 R. Dallington tr. F. Colonna Hypnerotomachia f. 24^v Of Porphyrit, Ophit, Numidian [It. Numidice], Alabastrit..Lacedemonian greene, and white marble.

1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 35 They erected in the Forum a solide Columne [margin or Piller] almost 20. foote high, of Numidian Marble [L. lapidis Numidici].

1792 T. Holcroft Anna St. Ives II. 6 Examine their palaces, their basins of porphyry, urns and vases of Numidian marble, catacombs, and subterranean cities.

1818 M. Pinckney Tyrant's Victims iii. 135 Pasiphilus! thou cruel persecutor, Hard as Numidian marble is thy breast, Or agony like mine wou'd soften it.

1975 Internat. Jrnl. Afr. Hist. Stud. 8 588 Yellow in color with dark streaks, Numidian marble was exported in large quantities for use throughout the empire.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	numidian
释义	Numidiann.adj. Brit. /njuːˈmɪdɪən/, /njᵿˈmɪdɪən/, U.S. /n(j)uˈmɪdiən/ Forms: late Middle English– Numidian, 1600s Numidaean, 1800s Numidion (in Compounds). Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Numidia , -an suffix. Etymology: < Numidia, the former name of a country in North Africa (classical Latin Numidia ; < Numida an inhabitant of this country ( < Hellenistic Greek Νομάδα , accusative of Νομάς Numidian, use as proper name of ancient Greek νομάς nomad n.) + -ia -ia suffix¹) + -an suffix.With Numidian marble compare classical Latin marmor Numidicus (Pliny), and also Hellenistic Greek νομάς λίθος , classical Latin lapis Numidicus (Suetonius), Middle French pierre Numidicque (1535), Italian Numidice (1545 in the passage translated in quot. 1592 for Numidian marble n. at Compounds). Numedia (also Numeþia) occurs as a place name in English contexts in the Old English translation of Orosius Hist. (compare also Numeþe Numidians, as an ethnonym in the same text); the forms Numidia, Numedie, Numid occur in Middle English. Chiefly historical. A. n. A native or inhabitant of Numidia, an ancient kingdom and later a Roman province, situated in North Africa in an area corresponding roughly to present-day Algeria. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > native or inhabitant of North Africa > native or inhabitant of other regions > [noun] Numidian?a1425 Nubianc1450 Massylian1606 catadupes1607 Mauritanian1607 Marmarican1627 Niam-Niam1861 Watusi1863 Zande1873 Twa1878 Tutsi1929 Cyrenaican1942 Ubangi1953 Chadian1960 Saharan1970 Sahrawi1976 ?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 24 (MED) Betwix Egipte and þe land þat es called Numid er xii day iourneez in desertes. Þe folk þat wones in þat cuntree er called Numidianes, and þai are cristned. Bot þai er blakk of colour. ?1556 N. Smyth tr. Herodian Hist. sig. F.f.iii Thinhabitauntes are called Numidians, or Nomades, because y^t often tymes they chaunge theyr habitations, & cary theyr housholdes from one place to another in wagons. 1566 W. Adlington tr. Apuleius .XI. Bks. Golden Asse sig. Aiv He calleth him selfe, halfe a Numidian, and halfe a Getulian. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxix. 731 Then the kingdome fell by descent, according to the custome and manner of the Numidians [L. Numidas], unto Desalces the late kings brother. 1614 A. Gorges tr. Lucan Pharsalia iv. 156 The vagrant fierce Numidæans [L. Numidae]. 1661 T. Ross tr. Silius Italicus Second Punick War i. 9 Here the Numidians insulting fill One quarter of the Camp. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 298 And fierce Numidians [L. Numidae infreni] there your Frontiers bound. 1719 J. Barker Exilius (ed. 2) II. ii. 211 By this Means the Numidians began to be in divers Divisions. 1757 A. Butler Lives Saints III. 4 Seventy bishops, chiefly Numidians. 1815 C. Lloyd tr. V. Alfieri Sophonisba ii. i, in tr. V. Alfieri Trag. III. 198 In my realm I might securely have transported thee With my Numidians. 1841 G. Borrow Zincali I. i. vii. 113 The tribes who speak the Shilha language, and who are the descendants of the ancient Numidians. 1878 R. B. Smith Carthage xviii. 338 [The huts] of the Numidians..were made of wattled reeds thatched with straw. 1906 R. Kipling Puck of Pook's Hill 147 ‘Was your nurse a—a Romaness too?’ ‘No, a Numidian... A dear, fat, brown thing.’ 1957 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 615/1 Numidians were divided into two great tribes, the Massyli on the east, and the Massaesyli on the west. 1995 W. Weaver tr. U. Eco Island of Day Before 350 The Numidians were considered vulgar because they kissed no one but their children. B. adj. Of or relating to Numidia or the Numidians. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Africa > [adjective] > North Africa > ancient regions Marmaric?a1425 Mauritanian?1556 Numidian1567 Marmarican1593 Cyrenaican1607 Saitic1678 Mauritanic1776 Meroite1844 Meroitic1852 Saite1866 1567 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure II. vii. f. 56^v What ment cruell Scipio, when so sone as Syphax was taken, he did not streight way dispatche him to Rome, to present the glorious sight of the Numidian king to ye Romane people? 1593 J. Eliot Ortho-epia Gallica i. 18 French-fine, Italian-glorious, Numidian, Arabesko. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxx. 752 They would enlarge and set at libertie all the Numidian captives [L. Numidas captivos] that lay in prison at Rome. 1655 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa II. i. v. 75 The first divisions consisted of 8000. Numidian Horse leade by the Gallant Maharball, whose Meene was as full of virtve as Courage, and whose actions sufficiently justify'd his Phisiognomy. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis viii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 462 Mulciber assigns the proper Place For Carians, and th'ungirt Numidian race. 1713 J. Addison Cato iv. 54 The traytor Syphax..Flew off at once with his Numidian Horse. 1757 A. Butler Lives Saints III. 3 Certain false Numidian zealots. 1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound iii. i. 98 All my being, Like him whom the Numidian seps did thaw Into a dew with poison, is dissolved. a1862 H. D. Thoreau Cape Cod (1865) ii. 25 For their houses on shore..it would be more agreeable to the imagination to see one of their vessels turned bottom upward, in the Numidian fashion. 1905 T. Hodgkin in L. Creighton Life & Lett. T. Hodgkin (1917) xi. 229 I wish I had come to this Numidian land when I was younger. 1957 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 615/1 At the end of the [second Punic] war,..the Numidian kingdom surrounded Carthage except towards the sea. 1993 H. Chadwick in J. McManners Oxf. Hist. Christianity i. 49 She had her majordomo appointed..with the support of the main body of Numidian bishops. Compounds Numidian crane n. now rare the demoiselle crane, Anthropoides virgo, of North Africa and Eurasia. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Gruiformes > [noun] > family Gruidae (cranes) > genus Anthropoides > anthropoides virgo or demoiselle demoiselle1687 kulang1698 Numidian crane1767 buffoon-bird1774 1767 Philos. Trans. 1766 (Royal Soc.) 56 210 The next I shall mention is the Grus Numidica, Numidian crane, or Demoiselle. 1893 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. 1 111 In Europe, besides the G[rus] communis already mentioned, we have as an inhabitant that which is generally known as the Numidian Crane or Demoiselle..distinguished from every other by its long white ear-tufts. 1944 Hesperia 13 35 The legend αῐών accompanies the self-renewing phoenix (Numidian crane with radiate nimbus) on coins of Antoninus Pius. Numidian marble n. a yellowish variety of marble. ΚΠ 1592 R. Dallington tr. F. Colonna Hypnerotomachia f. 24^v Of Porphyrit, Ophit, Numidian [It. Numidice], Alabastrit..Lacedemonian greene, and white marble. 1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 35 They erected in the Forum a solide Columne [margin or Piller] almost 20. foote high, of Numidian Marble [L. lapidis Numidici]. 1792 T. Holcroft Anna St. Ives II. 6 Examine their palaces, their basins of porphyry, urns and vases of Numidian marble, catacombs, and subterranean cities. 1818 M. Pinckney Tyrant's Victims iii. 135 Pasiphilus! thou cruel persecutor, Hard as Numidian marble is thy breast, Or agony like mine wou'd soften it. 1975 Internat. Jrnl. Afr. Hist. Stud. 8 588 Yellow in color with dark streaks, Numidian marble was exported in large quantities for use throughout the empire. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.?a1425
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