单词 | sub-roman |
释义 | sub-Romanadj. Archaeology and Ancient History. Designating a period occurring immediately after the Roman period, and still retaining characteristics of that time; of, relating to, or dating from such a period. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [adjective] > of Greek or Roman antiquity classic1597 ancient1605 Constantinian1641 classical1691 post-classical1851 pre-classical1860 pre-Roman1863 post-Roman1865 preclassic1869 Hadrianic1886 Protogeometric1914 sub-Roman1932 1932 Man 32 217/2 In excavation on the Bran Ditch..a large group of skeletons accompanied by sub-Roman pottery, suggested a massacre. 1962 H. R. Loyn Anglo-Saxon Eng. i. 39 Wheel-made pottery of sub-Roman character. 1977 History 62 175 We cannot, however, expect that these works will ever provide information about the sub-Roman centuries. 2002 Sunday Times (Nexis) 10 Feb. Radiocarbon analysis produced a rough date of AD 430—precisely the ‘sub-Roman’ period that Smyth evokes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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