town-takern.

Brit.

/ˈtaʊnˌteɪkə/, U.S.

/ˈtaʊnˌteɪkər/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; originally partly modelled on a French lexical item, and partly modelled on a Greek lexical item. Etymons: town n., taker n.

Etymology: < town n. + taker n., originally (with reference to Demetrius I) after French preneur de villes, lit. ‘taker of towns’ (1647 in the passage translated in quot. 1654) and its model Hellenistic Greek πολιορκητής besieger (see poliorcetic adj.).In quot. 1999 after an epithet of George Washington (and of his great-grandfather John Washington) in an Iroquoian language (probably originally Susquehannock), with the literal sense ‘he bites villages’. In quot. 2001 after Hausa Cīgári, epithet of Ibrahim Dabo, a 19th-cent. emir of Kano, in present-day Nigeria ( < ci to eat, conquer + gári town).

A person who captures towns; a besieger of towns. Chiefly as a personal epithet, esp. of Demetrius I (336–283 b.c.), king of Macedon.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > warrior > attacker > [noun] > besieger or blockader

sieger1533

besiege-layer1538

besieger1574

pursuera1578

assieger1608

beleaguer1611

beleaguerer1628

town-taker1654

blockader1759

investors1870

1654 E. Wolley tr. ‘G. de Scudéry’ Curia Politiæ 5 That antient Captaine, which the Greekes stiled the Towntaker [Fr. le preneur de villes].

1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 10 A Tinklar was never a Town-taker... A Rhyme upon the vagrant Life.

1757 J. Shebbeare Occas. Critic 51 ΠΟΛΙΟΡΚΗΤΗΣ is translated Town-Taker.

1856 Westm. Rev. Jan. 201 The ‘Town-taker’ knew not and cared nothing for Menander.

1889 I. S. Clare Unrivaled Hist. World II. xiii. 778/1 Ptolemy..was finally checked by Demétrius, son of Antigonus, known as Demétrius Poliorcetes (the town-taker).

1910 D. Quinn Helladian Vistas (ed. 3) 158 Demetrios the ‘town-taker’ founded a new city on its shores, and made himself eponymous to it.

1999 W. Martin Citizen Washington (2000) 81 Tanacharison gave Washington his name: Caunotaucarius. He said that it meant Town-Taker.

2001 Hist. in Afr. 28 286 Maje Karofi refers to Abdullahi, not Dabo, who was better known as ‘Cigari’ or the ‘town taker’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	town-taker
释义	town-takern. Brit. /ˈtaʊnˌteɪkə/, U.S. /ˈtaʊnˌteɪkər/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; originally partly modelled on a French lexical item, and partly modelled on a Greek lexical item. Etymons: town n., taker n. Etymology: < town n. + taker n., originally (with reference to Demetrius I) after French preneur de villes, lit. ‘taker of towns’ (1647 in the passage translated in quot. 1654) and its model Hellenistic Greek πολιορκητής besieger (see poliorcetic adj.).In quot. 1999 after an epithet of George Washington (and of his great-grandfather John Washington) in an Iroquoian language (probably originally Susquehannock), with the literal sense ‘he bites villages’. In quot. 2001 after Hausa Cīgári, epithet of Ibrahim Dabo, a 19th-cent. emir of Kano, in present-day Nigeria ( < ci to eat, conquer + gári town). A person who captures towns; a besieger of towns. Chiefly as a personal epithet, esp. of Demetrius I (336–283 b.c.), king of Macedon. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > attacker > [noun] > besieger or blockader sieger1533 besiege-layer1538 besieger1574 pursuera1578 assieger1608 beleaguer1611 beleaguerer1628 town-taker1654 blockader1759 investors1870 1654 E. Wolley tr. ‘G. de Scudéry’ Curia Politiæ 5 That antient Captaine, which the Greekes stiled the Towntaker [Fr. le preneur de villes]. 1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 10 A Tinklar was never a Town-taker... A Rhyme upon the vagrant Life. 1757 J. Shebbeare Occas. Critic 51 ΠΟΛΙΟΡΚΗΤΗΣ is translated Town-Taker. 1856 Westm. Rev. Jan. 201 The ‘Town-taker’ knew not and cared nothing for Menander. 1889 I. S. Clare Unrivaled Hist. World II. xiii. 778/1 Ptolemy..was finally checked by Demétrius, son of Antigonus, known as Demétrius Poliorcetes (the town-taker). 1910 D. Quinn Helladian Vistas (ed. 3) 158 Demetrios the ‘town-taker’ founded a new city on its shores, and made himself eponymous to it. 1999 W. Martin Citizen Washington (2000) 81 Tanacharison gave Washington his name: Caunotaucarius. He said that it meant Town-Taker. 2001 Hist. in Afr. 28 286 Maje Karofi refers to Abdullahi, not Dabo, who was better known as ‘Cigari’ or the ‘town taker’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1654
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