单词 | picenian |
释义 | Piceniann.adj. Chiefly Ancient History and Archaeology. A. n. 1. = Picene n. 1. 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 1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God iii. xxiii. 142 Being frustrate of it by Drusus his sudden death, first the Picenians [L. Picentes] tooke armes, and after them the Vestines, Marsians, Latines, Pelignians, Marucians Lucanes, and Samnits. 1680 R. L'Estrange tr. Cicero Offices iii. 180 I speak of That Satirius that to the Shame of the Age had the Patronage of the Picenians [L. Piceni], and Sabines. 1736 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. IX. 373 He was taken an infant, with his mother, in Asculum, the capital of the Picenians, by Strabo. 1871 N. Amer. Rev. July 39 We recognize the Hirpinians as receiving their name from the wolf (hirpus) of Mars, and the Picenians from the woodpecker (picus) of Mars, which had guided them to their new homes. 1948 B. Rackham tr. O. Fischel Raphael I. iii. 11 Out of this haze of conjecture there rises clearly to view what is shown by Raphael's earliest pictures—the innate attraction that distance had for a Picenian. 1991 W. Doniger tr. Y. Bonnefoy in Rom. & European Mythologies (1992) 32/1 Among the Umbrians (at Prestino) and the Picenians, the worship of another female divinity, Cupra, was widespread. 2. = Picene n. 2. 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 1939 L. H. Gray Found. Lang. xi. 335 A language sometimes called Pre-Sabellian, Liburnian, or Picenian. 1995 A. L. Sihler New Compar. Gram. Greek & Latin i. 14 These ‘dialects’, as they are traditionally but improperly known, include Paelignian, Marrucinian,..Southern Picenian, and Aequian. B. adj. = Picene adj. 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 1619 tr. L. J. Florus Rom. Hist. xix. 93 (heading) The Picenian Warre [L. Bellum Picens]. 1661 T. Ross tr. Silius Italicus Second Punick War v. 131 First, the Picenian Bands [L. Picentum cohortes], when they beheld The Cohorts dissipated, and repell'd, And Hannibal advancing furiously, Charge Him with Courage. 1746 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Satires ii. iv. 279 Picenian [L. Picenis] Fruits with juicy Flavour grow, But Tibur's with superior Beauty glow. 1767 C. Smart tr. Horace Satires ii, in tr. Horace Wks. (new ed.) III. 211 When taking from Picenian [L. Picenis] fruit, The seeds you to the cieling shoot. 1863 W. P. Dickson tr. T. Mommsen Hist. Rome III. iv. ix. 332 The corps of Picenian volunteers soon grew to three legions. 1866 C. R. Kennedy Hannibal 18 Can Umbrian hunters check the fierce career Of Gaulish inroad? on the Nomad spear Picenian peasants rush? 1911 Amer. Anthropologist 13 650/2 One of the Picenian skulls from the necropolis of Tolentino. 1948 D. Diringer Alphabet ii. ix. 498 The Picenian alphabet is..very old. 1999 M. Torelli Tota Italia i. 9 The oldest developed areas of ancient Italy..are the Picenian and Umbrian territories and the part of the Samnite areas most close to Etruria, Latium, Campania, or Magna Graecia. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1610 |
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