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单词 pelasgi
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Pelasgin.

Brit. /pᵻˈlazdʒi/, /pɛˈlazdʒi/, /pᵻˈlazɡi/, /pɛˈlazɡi/, U.S. /pəˈlæzdʒi/, /pəˈlæzɡi/
Forms: 1500s Pelasges, 1500s Pelasgies, 1500s– Pelasgi.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin Pelasgī.
Etymology: < classical Latin Pelasgī (plural) the Pelasgians < ancient Greek Πελασγοί , plural of Πελασγός a Pelasgian. Compare earlier Pelasgian n.
Ancient History.
With plural agreement. A member of a supposed pre-Hellenic people inhabiting the coasts and islands of the eastern Mediterranean and Aegean; the Pelasgians.
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1581 A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades x. 184 I truely wil you tel, And where ech band is placed right: The Caries and Peones dwel, The Caucons, Lelges, and Pelasges along the sea do ly.
1621 P. Heylyn Microcosmus 204 The whole Countrey, whose people by a Synecdoche are diuersly called, by some Achiui, by some Mirmidones, sometimes Pelasgi, Danai, Argini, &c.
1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ iii. iv. §14 The Dorians inhabiting probably where most of the Pelasgi had been.
1715 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad I. ii. 1019 The fierce Pelasgi..March from Larissa's ever-fertile Ground.
1770 J. Langhorne Poet. Wks. (1804) II. 139 (note) The Tuscans were a branch of the Pelasgi that migrated into Europe.
1824 I. Washington Tales of Traveller III. 33 He had taken a maggot into his brain..to hunt after the ancient cities of the Pelasgi.
1888 Times 3 Oct. 8/1 The existence of the Pelasgi as a distinct and identifiable race and element in Italian or Greek history, or rather pre-history.
1931 E. C. Semple Geogr. Mediterranean Region xviii. 527 On the lofty summit of the Taygetos range..dwelt the ancient Zeus of the Pelasgi.
1992 Hist. & Theory 31 88 Meiners explains that the Greeks, although originally Slavons, ‘later became blended with colonies of a nobler race’, that is, the Pelasgi.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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