Thulen.

/ˈθjuːliː/

Forms: Old English Thila, Old English, Middle English Tyle, Tile, 1600s Thyle, Tule, 1500s– Thule.

Etymology: < Latin Thūlē (Thȳle) = Greek Θούλη (Θύλη), proper name of unknown origin.

a. The ancient Greek and Latin name (first found in Polybius's account of the voyage of Pytheas) for a land six days' sail north of Britain, which he supposed to be the most northerly region in the world. (Thule has been variously conjectured to be the Shetland Islands (so apparently in Pliny and Tacitus), Iceland, the northern point of Denmark, or some point on the coast of Norway.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > North > [noun] > part or place

Thulec888

northdealeOE

north halfeOE

northwardeOE

north endOE

northlandOE

northdalec1175

north sidec1275

northwardc1350

northa1500

northwards1574

norlanda1578

norwardc1612

northa1631

northing1644

c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xxix. §3 Oð ðæt iland þe we hatað Tyle.

c893 tr. Orosius Hist. i. i. §27 Be westannorðan Ibernia is þæt ytemeste land þæt man hæt Thila.

a1000 Boeth. Metr. xvi. 15 An iglond.. is Tile haten.

c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Cambr.) iii. met. v. Þe last Ile in þe see þat hyhte tyle [v.r. tile].

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 325 Tyle is sixe dayes seillynge oute of Bretayne.

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 477 From Africa to Thule's farthest Flood.

1613 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals I. v. 96 Monster-breeding Nyle; Or through the North to the vnpeopled Thyle.

1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 2 The fortunate Islands..about which has been no small difference amongst Writers. Some placing them at the Azores..but the Commentator upon Horace near the Ultima Thule.

a1688 J. Wallace (title) An Essay Concerning the Thule of the Ancients.

1730 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons 165 Where the Northern ocean..Boils round the naked, melancholy isles Of farthest Thule.

1847 T. B. Macaulay in G. O. Trevelyan Life & Lett. Macaulay (1876) II. 190 Where more than Thule's winter barbs the breeze.

b. transferred. As the type of the extreme limit of travel and discovery, chiefly (after Latin usage) in the phrase ultima Thule (farthest Thule); (hence) figurative the highest or uttermost point or degree attained or attainable, the acme, limit; the lowest limit, the nadir.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > destination

scope?1611

stint1618

landing-place1727

Thule1771

destination1787

goal1788

ultimatum1862

the world > space > distance > distance or farness > [noun] > distant parts > extreme limit of travel and discovery

Thule1771

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [noun] > quality or fact of being extreme > highest, utmost, or extreme degree

heightOE

perfectiona1398

utterestc1410

uttermosta1425

tiptoec1440

pinnaclec1450

utmost1472

outmostc1535

extremity1543

abyss1548

top1552

furthest, utmost stretch1558

summa summarum1567

superlative1573

strain1576

extreme1595

fine1596

last1602

yondmost1608

super-superlative1623

pitch1624

utmostness1674

pink1720

supreme1817

ultima Thule1828

peak1902

the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > fall from prosperous or thriving condition > low condition or low point > lowest point

low tide1608

low-water mark1651

falla1662

perigee1662

low point1749

bathos1759

nadir1793

pessimism1794

zero1821

bed-rock1883

rock-bottom1885

ultima Thule1976

1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker III. 12 I am now little short of the Ultima Thule, if this appellation properly belongs to the Orkneys or Hebrides.

1787 Ann. Reg. 1784–5 Characters 12/1 An unknown coast, which he [sc. Cook] named Sandwich Land, the thule of the Southern hemisphere.

1828 Lights & Shades Eng. Life II. 136 The caricature of a fop, the ultima Thule of extravagant frippery.

1878 Times 10 May The expedition reached their Ultima Thule.

1954 M. Lowry Let. 22 May (1967) 370 Before you write off that behaviour as being the ultima thule of ingratitude..try to understand the effect your news..had on me.

1976 L. Davidoff et al. in J. Mitchell & A. Oakley Rights & Wrongs of Women iv. 157 The one who had ‘fallen’ out of the respectable society..to the ultima Thule of prostitution.

2. Archaeology (with pronunciation /θuːl/, /θjuːl/). Chiefly attributive, designating a prehistoric Eskimo culture widely distributed from Alaska to Greenland, c500–1400 a.d. [ < the name Thule (now Dundas), a settlement in north-west Greenland.] See note at Eskimo n. 1.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > a civilization or culture > [noun] > specific prehistoric culture

Thule1927

Folsom1928

Yuma1932

Badarian1949

Dorset1960

Pre-Dorset1962

Lapita1971

1927 T. Mathiassen Archæol. of Central Eskimos II. i. 2 We have..found remnants of an older culture which, after a locality outside the Central Eskimo territory, in North Greenland, we have called the Thule culture.

1935 Nature 3 Aug. 188/1 He [sc. Mathiassen] regards the Thule culture as originating in Asia.

1956 G. Freeman tr. J. Malaurie Last Kings of Thule i. vii. 87 The Thule Culture—neo-Eskimo—would be derived from an anterior continental culture—palaeo-Eskimo.

1962 Times 4 Aug. 7/7 Within recent historical times Greenland has known three Eskimo cultures. The most recent is that of the Thule people who moved across Canada from Alaska.

1972 Country Life 12 Oct. 880 About ad 1100 a second Eskimo culture, known to archaeologists as the Thule period because it was first identified at Thule in Greenland, spread eastward from Alaska.

1972 Country Life 12 Oct. 881 The Thule Eskimos lived in stone houses.

1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia I. 1130/2 The spread of Thule..has been traced eastward from Alaska, arriving in Greenland about 1200... Later there was a resurge of Thule back toward the west, reaching all the way to Bering Strait.

1977 G. Clark World Prehist. (ed. 3) ix. 411 The Neo-Eskimo bearers of the Thule culture, immediate forebears of the existing population.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	thule
释义	Thulen. /ˈθjuːliː/ Forms: Old English Thila, Old English, Middle English Tyle, Tile, 1600s Thyle, Tule, 1500s– Thule. Etymology: < Latin Thūlē (Thȳle) = Greek Θούλη (Θύλη), proper name of unknown origin. 1. a. The ancient Greek and Latin name (first found in Polybius's account of the voyage of Pytheas) for a land six days' sail north of Britain, which he supposed to be the most northerly region in the world. (Thule has been variously conjectured to be the Shetland Islands (so apparently in Pliny and Tacitus), Iceland, the northern point of Denmark, or some point on the coast of Norway.) ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > North > [noun] > part or place Thulec888 northdealeOE north halfeOE northwardeOE north endOE northlandOE northdalec1175 north sidec1275 northwardc1350 northa1500 northwards1574 norlanda1578 norwardc1612 northa1631 northing1644 c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xxix. §3 Oð ðæt iland þe we hatað Tyle. c893 tr. Orosius Hist. i. i. §27 Be westannorðan Ibernia is þæt ytemeste land þæt man hæt Thila. a1000 Boeth. Metr. xvi. 15 An iglond.. is Tile haten. c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Cambr.) iii. met. v. Þe last Ile in þe see þat hyhte tyle [v.r. tile]. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 325 Tyle is sixe dayes seillynge oute of Bretayne. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 477 From Africa to Thule's farthest Flood. 1613 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals I. v. 96 Monster-breeding Nyle; Or through the North to the vnpeopled Thyle. 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 2 The fortunate Islands..about which has been no small difference amongst Writers. Some placing them at the Azores..but the Commentator upon Horace near the Ultima Thule. a1688 J. Wallace (title) An Essay Concerning the Thule of the Ancients. 1730 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons 165 Where the Northern ocean..Boils round the naked, melancholy isles Of farthest Thule. 1847 T. B. Macaulay in G. O. Trevelyan Life & Lett. Macaulay (1876) II. 190 Where more than Thule's winter barbs the breeze. b. transferred. As the type of the extreme limit of travel and discovery, chiefly (after Latin usage) in the phrase ultima Thule (farthest Thule); (hence) figurative the highest or uttermost point or degree attained or attainable, the acme, limit; the lowest limit, the nadir. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > destination scope?1611 stint1618 landing-place1727 Thule1771 destination1787 goal1788 ultimatum1862 the world > space > distance > distance or farness > [noun] > distant parts > extreme limit of travel and discovery Thule1771 the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [noun] > quality or fact of being extreme > highest, utmost, or extreme degree heightOE perfectiona1398 utterestc1410 uttermosta1425 tiptoec1440 pinnaclec1450 utmost1472 outmostc1535 extremity1543 abyss1548 top1552 furthest, utmost stretch1558 summa summarum1567 superlative1573 strain1576 extreme1595 fine1596 last1602 yondmost1608 super-superlative1623 pitch1624 utmostness1674 pink1720 supreme1817 ultima Thule1828 peak1902 the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > fall from prosperous or thriving condition > low condition or low point > lowest point low tide1608 low-water mark1651 falla1662 perigee1662 low point1749 bathos1759 nadir1793 pessimism1794 zero1821 bed-rock1883 rock-bottom1885 ultima Thule1976 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker III. 12 I am now little short of the Ultima Thule, if this appellation properly belongs to the Orkneys or Hebrides. 1787 Ann. Reg. 1784–5 Characters 12/1 An unknown coast, which he [sc. Cook] named Sandwich Land, the thule of the Southern hemisphere. 1828 Lights & Shades Eng. Life II. 136 The caricature of a fop, the ultima Thule of extravagant frippery. 1878 Times 10 May The expedition reached their Ultima Thule. 1954 M. Lowry Let. 22 May (1967) 370 Before you write off that behaviour as being the ultima thule of ingratitude..try to understand the effect your news..had on me. 1976 L. Davidoff et al. in J. Mitchell & A. Oakley Rights & Wrongs of Women iv. 157 The one who had ‘fallen’ out of the respectable society..to the ultima Thule of prostitution. 2. Archaeology (with pronunciation /θuːl/, /θjuːl/). Chiefly attributive, designating a prehistoric Eskimo culture widely distributed from Alaska to Greenland, c500–1400 a.d. [ < the name Thule (now Dundas), a settlement in north-west Greenland.] See note at Eskimo n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > a civilization or culture > [noun] > specific prehistoric culture Thule1927 Folsom1928 Yuma1932 Badarian1949 Dorset1960 Pre-Dorset1962 Lapita1971 1927 T. Mathiassen Archæol. of Central Eskimos II. i. 2 We have..found remnants of an older culture which, after a locality outside the Central Eskimo territory, in North Greenland, we have called the Thule culture. 1935 Nature 3 Aug. 188/1 He [sc. Mathiassen] regards the Thule culture as originating in Asia. 1956 G. Freeman tr. J. Malaurie Last Kings of Thule i. vii. 87 The Thule Culture—neo-Eskimo—would be derived from an anterior continental culture—palaeo-Eskimo. 1962 Times 4 Aug. 7/7 Within recent historical times Greenland has known three Eskimo cultures. The most recent is that of the Thule people who moved across Canada from Alaska. 1972 Country Life 12 Oct. 880 About ad 1100 a second Eskimo culture, known to archaeologists as the Thule period because it was first identified at Thule in Greenland, spread eastward from Alaska. 1972 Country Life 12 Oct. 881 The Thule Eskimos lived in stone houses. 1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia I. 1130/2 The spread of Thule..has been traced eastward from Alaska, arriving in Greenland about 1200... Later there was a resurge of Thule back toward the west, reaching all the way to Bering Strait. 1977 G. Clark World Prehist. (ed. 3) ix. 411 The Neo-Eskimo bearers of the Thule culture, immediate forebears of the existing population. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c888
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