单词 | sinico- |
释义 | Sinico-comb. form 1. Forming adjectives with the sense ‘Chinese and ——; of, belonging to, or involving both China and (the specified country or people)’, as in Sinico-French, Sinico-Indian, etc.Recorded earliest and most commonly in Sinico-Japanese adj. 1.Sino- is now the usual prefix in this context: see Sino- comb. form1 1b. Cf. Chino- comb. form1. ΚΠ 1854 G. R. Gliddon in J. C. Nott & G. R. Gliddon Types of Mankind iii. ii. 649 Arab curiosity-mongers are thus enabled to furnish imbecilities travelling along the Nile with Sinico-Ægyptian vases. 1882 Jrnl. Royal Asiatic Soc. 14 p. xxxii On the Sinico-Indian Origin of Indo-Pali writing. 1912 Amer. Sugar Industry Jan. 67/2 As will be imagined, the Sinico-French War was, in fact, a heavy blow to the sugar industry of Formosa. 2. Forming adjectives and nouns referring to languages (or to particular forms of those languages) that are strongly influenced by Chinese, e.g. in having numerous Chinese loanwords or using Chinese script, as in Sinico-Annamite, Sinico-Annamitic, Sinico-Korean. See also Sinico-Japanese adj. 2, Sinico-Japanese n.Sino- is now the usual prefix in this context: see Sino- comb. form1 2a. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Sino-Tibetan > [adjective] > of Chinese > and other languages Sinico-Annamitic1838 Sinico-Japanese1841 Sino-Japanese1884 Sino-Tibetan1915 1838 P. S. Du Ponceau Diss. Nature & Char. Chinese Syst. Writing Introd. p. xxix Those Sinico-anamitic words, if they are really in use, do not belong to the original language. 1881 Academy 1 Oct. 260/3 We know that it was tai or dai, this last being the Sinico-Annamitic sound. 1892 Jrnl. Royal Asiatic Soc. Oct. 838 If we refer to the most archaic of the Chinese dialectal sounds, those of the Sinico-Annamite.., we see that the ancient sound of yük was dzuk. 1896 Korean Repository Mar. 112 There are still however too many Sinico-Korean words. 1916 Bible Soc. Rec. Nov. 224/2 To see that they did not express it in such stilted and classical Sinico-Korean that the common people could not understand. 2016 J. Schliesinger Origin Tai People II. 54 Sinico-Annamite dialect. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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