单词 | syriac |
释义 | Syriacadj.n. A. adj. Of or relating to Syria: only of or in reference to the language (see B.); written in Syriac; writing, or versed, in Syriac. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Afro-Asiatic > [adjective] > Semitic > Aramaic > Syriac Syryc1384 Syric1388 Syriacal1565 Syriac1602 Syrianic1873 society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > text > edition > [adjective] > other Syriac1602 Thebaic1687 Peshitta1793 1602 T. Fitzherbert Apol. 49 As wel in the Greeke text, as in the Siriac and Caldie. 1635 E. Pagitt Christianographie (1636) i. iii. 157 The Syriaque tongue, which is composed of the Hebrew, Chalde, Arabique and Greeke tongues. 1659 B. Walton Considerator Considered ix. 179 Some Syriack Copies of the New Testament. 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 13 Some Bodies with..the Greek, the Hebrew, and the Syriack Face. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1787) III. xxxiii. 350 (note) Two Syriac writers..place the resurrection of the Seven Sleepers in the year 736 ( a.d. 425), or 748 ( a.d. 437), of the æra of the Seleucides. 1867 M. E. Herbert Cradle Lands iii. 101 A very curious old Syriac copy of the Four Gospels. 1895 J. R. Harris Hermas in Arcadia (1896) 45 We have not been in the habit of either studying or trusting Syriac writers in the degree they deserve. B. n. 1. The ancient Semitic language of Syria; formerly in wide use, = Aramaic adj.; now, the form of Aramaic used by Syrian Christians, in which the Peshito version of the Bible is written. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Afro-Asiatic > [noun] > Semitic > Aramaic > Syriac Syriac1611 1611 Bible (King James) Dan. ii. 4 Then spake the Caldeans to the King in Syriacke . View more context for this quotation 1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 184 Out of that intermixture of Hebrew and Chaldee resulted a third language call'd to this day the Syriac, which also after the time of our Saviour began to be more adulterated by admission of Greek, Roman, and Arabic. 1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. 5 Those passages in the Gospel, which are said to be in the Hebrew tongue, as Talitha Kumi,..are properly Syriac. 1780 W. Cowper Progress of Error 499 If stubborn Greek refuse to be his friend, Hebrew or Syriac shall be forc'd to bend. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1787) III. xxxiii. 350 (note) The narrative [of the Seven Sleepers] which was translated from the Syriac by the care of Gregory of Tours. 1867 W. D. Whitney Lang. & Study of Lang. viii. 298 The ancient Syriac is still the sacred dialect of the feeble bodies of Christians in Asia which represent the Syriac church. 1899 F. C. Burkitt Early Christianity outside Roman Emp. 16 The Syriac-speaking subjects of the Christianised Empire. 2. A or the Syriac version (of the Bible). ΚΠ 1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 12 As for the burning of those Ephesian books..tis reply'd the books were magick, the Syriack so renders them. 1692 W. Marshall Gospel Myst. Sanctif. (1780) x. 169 The Spirit itself..beareth our spirits witness, as the Syriac and vulgar Latin render it. 1910 Expositor May 396 The Latin Vulgate, the two Syriacs, the Gothic. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > style of type > [noun] > type face or font > Syriac Syriac1670 1670 R. Scott Let. to Fell in Hart Cent. Typogr. Oxf. (1900) 156 Ye printer..giues mee notice yt they ca[nnot] goe on wth ye notes vntill they haue cast a Syriack. Derivatives ˈSyriacism n. /-əsɪz(ə)m/ = Syriasm n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Afro-Asiatic > [noun] > Semitic > Aramaic > Syriac > word or idiom Syriacism1645 Syriasm1684 Syrianism1828 Syrism1907 1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 63 The New Testament..hath nothing neer so many Atticisms as Hebraisms, & Syriacisms. 1848 Bagster's Anal. Heb. Conc. 31 By a Syriacism, the suffixes are sometimes attached, without a union vowel. ˈSyriacist n. /-əsɪst/ a Syriac scholar. ˈSyriacize v. /-əsaɪz/ (transitive) to turn or translate into Syriac. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > translation > translate [verb (transitive)] > into particular language to make EnglishOE Englisha1450 Latin1563 Latinize1589 Germanize1605 Scottish1623 Englify1688 anglicize1711 romance1796 Saxonize1804 Scotticize1809 Syriacize1863 French1868 Sanskritize1881 1863 H. P. Liddon Some Words for God (1865) i. 5 The words actually uttered by our Lord upon the cross, and which He took from a Syriacized version of Ps. xxii. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.1602 |
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