单词 | thessalian |
释义 | Thessalianadj.n. Ancient Greek History. A. adj. Of or pertaining to Thessaly, a region in northern Greece. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > Greece > [adjective] > regions of Greece Macedonc1450 Olympian1523 Ionian?1556 Macedonian1556 Achaean1567 Peloponnesian1569 Molossian1587 Thessalian1594 Thracian1594 Olympic1597 Argive1598 Attic1599 isthmian1603 Pharsalian1605 Aonian1607 Attical1610 Phocian1614 Messenianc1615 Marathonian1623 Bœotic1851 Athoan1869 Thraco-Illyrian1931 Athonite1963 1594 T. Kyd Cornelia iv. ii. 63 When the Thessalian fields were purpled ore With eyther Armies murdered souldiers gore. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iv. i. 121 Crooke kneed, and deawlapt, like Thessalian Buls. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 544 As when Alcides..tore Through pain up by the roots Thessalian Pines. View more context for this quotation 1757 J. Dyer Fleece ii. 56 When, o'er the deep by flying Phryxus brought, The fam'd Thessalian ram enrich'd her plains. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Talking Oak lxxiii, in Poems (new ed.) II. 82 Or that Thessalian growth, In which the swarthy ringdove sat, And mystic sentence spoke. 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 299/1 These Thessalian passes were of the utmost importance to southern Greece. 1973 R. L. Fox Alexander the Great i. iii. 47 Demeratus the Corinthian..had bought the horse from his Thessalian breeder. B. n. 1. An inhabitant of Thessaly. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of ancient or medieval Europe > ancient Greeks and neighbours > [noun] > native or inhabitant of states, regions, or cities Thebienc1374 Spartiatec1384 myrmidonc1425 Spartanc1425 Phocianc1487 Argive?1532 Locrian1536 Locrensian1542 Achaean1550 Mantinean1550 Mytilenean1550 Tegeate1584 Pylian1585 Epidaurian?1589 Thessalian1608 Olympian1609 Sicyonian1642 Samothracian1653 Dorian1662 Attic1699 Tegean1709 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 5 One Aleua a Thessalian, who feeding his Oxen in Thessaly..there fell in loue with him a Serpent. 1704 S. Parker tr. Cicero Two Ess. Old Age 34 When Cineas the Thessalian told him of it. 1842 Penny Cycl. XXIV. 359/1 The Thessalians..became very rich, and luxurious in their mode of life. 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 299/2 In race, as in geographical position, the Thessalians held an intermediate place between the non-Hellenic Macedonians and the Greeks of pure blood. 1973 R. L. Fox Alexander the Great i. iii. 60 Philip's heir was ruler of the Thessalians, a people essential for his army. 2. The dialect of Greek spoken there. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Greek > Greek dialects common dialect1604 Aeolic1606 Ionic1606 Ionic dialect1629 Athenian1638 Theban1820 Laconian1830 Doric1837 Rumelian1859 Pamphylian1880 Tsakonian1902 Pontic1910 Thessalian1910 koine1913 Messenian1928 Macedonian1933 Mycenaean1955 1910 C. D. Buck Introd. Study Greek Dial. i. 3 Thessalian is of all dialects the most closely related to Lesbian, and at the same time shares in some of the characteristics of the West Greek dialects. 1978 Language 54 179 Thereafter Thessalian underwent some influence from Northwest Greek. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < adj.n.1594 |
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