单词 | picene |
释义 | Piceneadj.n. Ancient History and Archaeology. A. adj. Of or relating to Picenum (modern Piceno), an ancient region of eastern central Italy, or the pre-Roman Iron Age people and culture associated with it. Also: relating to or designating the language spoken by the people of Picenum. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > a civilization or culture > [adjective] > specific Iron Age Picene1600 Picenian1619 Hallstatt1869 La Tène1882 Picentine1888 Hallstattian1893 Marnian1904 the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > Italy > [adjective] > ancient parts Tyrrhenea1387 Latinc1400 Albana1522 Latian1598 Picene1600 Picenian1619 Ligurian1632 Praenestine1683 Tyrrhenian1797 Picentine1888 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxii. 437 He [sc. Hannibal] turned another way into the Picene countrie. 1611 B. Jonson Catiline iii. sig. G3v I haue, alreadie, sent Septimius into the Picene territorie. View more context for this quotation 1669 J. Denham Cato Major i. 59 in Poet. Wks. (1928) 209 When his Colleague Carvilius stept aside, The Tribune of the People would divide To them the Gallick, and the Picene Field. 1709 J. Rowe tr. Sallust Historian 38 While This was doing, there was some Commotion..in the Picene Territory. 1714 tr. L. J. Florus Rom. Hist. xix. (heading) The Picene War. 1846 H. W. Herbert Roman Traitor II. xix. 204 His first attempt was to elude Metellus Celer, who had marched down from the Picene district on the Adriatic sea, with great rapidity. 1901 Eng. Hist. Rev. 16 534 An appendix..which gives facsimiles of all the inscriptions in the Picene language hitherto discovered, will be found particularly serviceable. 1933 R. S. Conway et al. Prae-Italic Dial. Italy II. iv. 213 This Picene culture extends along the Adriatic coast southwards from Rimini at least as far as the river Sangro. 1949 L. R. Taylor Party Politics in Age of Caesar ii. 45 In the elder Pompey's bodyguard..was a group of young Picene officers. 1989 J. P. Mallory In Search of Indo-Europeans iii. 90 Some of the Picene inscriptions extend back to about the seventh century and are among our earliest written evidence in Italy. 2004 E. Papi in S. Swain & M. Edwards Approaching Late Antiq. iii. 68 The same chronology of works on the Picene stretch of the Flaminia is also indicated on a milestone at Cagli. B. n. 1. A native or inhabitant of Picenum, or of the Picene region. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of ancient or medieval Europe > native or inhabitant of states or regions Italy > [noun] Albana1387 Latina1398 Venetian1432 Picentine1598 sybarite1598 Faliscan1600 Picene1601 sybaritan1608 Picenian1610 Peucetian1615 Pompeian1654 Praenestine1683 Iapygian1773 Messapian1773 Atestine1924 Cumaean1931 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xviii. xi. 567 The Picenes in times past invented a way by themselves of making bread. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. iii. i. 51 The Neapolitans delighted in flocks of maid seruants & louers. The Beneuentants to be of rude beauty. The Picenes desirous to be obserued by their husbands. 1901 Eng. Hist. Rev. 16 533 Attempting to prove that Lenaeus, a freeman of Pompey, was a Picene. 1949 Oxf. Classical Dict. 692/1 Some large eighth-century cemeteries demonstrate the remarkably war-like character of the Picenes. 1999 Internat. Herald Tribune (Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) (Nexis) 10 Dec. (Feature section) 11 The Picenes, a tribal culture of warriors and traders that flourished along the Adriatic coast between the ninth and the sixth centuries B.C. at roughly the same time as the Etruscans. 2. The Italic language associated with the pre-Roman culture of the Picene region (now usually called South Picene). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > postulated Italo-Celtic > pre-Italic Rhaetiana1832 Ligurian1835 Iapygian1882 Messapian1882 Venetic1903 Rhaetic1933 Picenian1939 Sicel1939 Picene1949 1949 Oxf. Classical Dict. 692/1 Less important is the probable intermingling of Picene-speaking Italic tribes. 1959 Chambers's Encycl. V. 461/2 In the east the Fossa peoples were supplemented by another Illyrian-speaking group, known as Picene, between Rimini and the Abruzzi. 1985 Classical Philol. 80 337 This word may be attested in South Picene. 1991 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 112 407 The languages covered are Etruscan, Venetic,..South Picene, Oscan, Umbrian, Messapic and minor Osco-Umbrian dialects. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1600 |
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