单词 | sarmatian |
释义 | Sarmatianadj.n. A. adj. a. Of or belonging to the region north of the Black Sea, anciently known as Sarmatia.The region corresponds to the modern Ukraine, southern Russia, and the eastern Balkans. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of other eastern provinces > [adjective] Sarmatian1613 Sarmatic1723 Galician1835 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 394 Ptolemey..confineth Sarmatia Europæa with the Sarmatian Ocean. 1800 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. I. ii. 430 Sarmatian Weesel, Viverra Sarmatica. 1836 A. Alison Hist. Europe from French Revol. V. xl. 449 [Vienna was] anciently the frontier station of the Roman empire against the Sarmatian wilds. b. Geology. = Sarmatic adj. b. ΚΠ 1882 A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. 867 Sarmatian or Cerithium Stage. 1882 A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. 867 The Sarmatian stage is characterized by the prodigious number of individuals of a comparatively small number of species of shells. B. n. a. One of a nomadic people formerly inhabiting Sarmatia. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of northern and central Russia > [noun] Sauromatian1611 Sarmatian1613 Lamut1764 Siryenian1878 Zyrian1886 Komi1888 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 393 Of the Scythians, Sarmatians, and Seres. 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iv. 78 Germans and Scythians, and Sarmatians North Beyond Danubius to the Tauric Pool. View more context for this quotation 1771 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. i. (1851) I. 22 The wandering tribes, which they called by the general name of Sarmatians or Scythians. 1886 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 311/1 Scythians and Sarmatians spoke almost the same language. b. The language of the Sarmatians, known only from Greek inscriptions in the regions bordering the northern Black Sea coast, and now regarded as a member of the Iranian group. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Indo-Iranian > Iranian > specific languages Baluch1875 Sogdian1909 Sarmatian1922 Tat1939 1922 O. Jespersen tr. R. Rask in Language ii. 39 I divide our family of languages in this way: the Indian..Iranic..Thracian..Sarmatian (Lettic..and Slavonic),..Gothic..and Keltic. 1939 L. H. Gray Found. Lang. 320 Old Sakian..and Old Sarmatian are preserved only in a few proper names and glosses. 1972 W. B. Lockwood Panorama Indo-European Lang. 235 The exiguous records of the Median language are of the same character as those of Scythian and Sarmatian. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < adj.n.1613 |
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