单词 | somaten |
释义 | somatenn. In Catalonia, a body of civilians armed for the protection of a town or district; a member of this body. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > branch of army > [noun] > home-defence troops > foreign somaten1845 Heimwehr1931 1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. vi. 493 Thus time was given for the somaten, or tocsin, to be rung, and the armed peasantry collected... The Catalan guerrilleros were called Somatenes, from this bell. 1905 R. Thirlmere Lett. from Catalonia I. v. 60 In Olot and other Catalan towns they have what they call El Somaten, an armed, local, volunteer force—which closes all the highways at the sound of an alarm bell. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 566/2 Miquelets..were irregular local troops in Catalonia... They were maintained by the several parishes..and as they had to turn out for duty on sound of the village alarm-bell (somaten) they are frequently called somatenes. 1929 A. F. G. Bell in E. A. Peers Spain 275 A more efficient city-police, together with the Somatenes and the Civil Guard, maintained order throughout Spain. Derivatives soˈmatenist n. [Catalan somatenista] a member of a somaten. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by type of service > [noun] > militiaman > specific miquelet1670 minuteman1774 landwehr man1866 khassadar1901 somatenist1928 requeté1936 miliciano1938 militiaman1939 Basij1982 Basiji1982 1928 Daily Tel. 29 May 9/5 A member of the ‘Somaten’ (Militia) to-day succeeded in finding the young man who ran amok with a rifle last Monday... As he refused to surrender the ‘Somatenist’ fired and killed him. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < n.1845 |
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