请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 syriac
释义

Syriacadj.n.

Brit. /ˈsɪrɪak/, U.S. /ˈsɪriˌæk/
Forms: Also 1600s -aque, -ack.
Etymology: < Latin Syriacus = Greek Συριακός, < Syria, Συρία. Compare French syriaque, Italian siriaco, Portuguese siriaco, Spanish siriaco.
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.
3. A printers' type of a Syriac letter or character. Obsolete. rare.
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
随便看

 

英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2025/1/11 13:38:00