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单词 adriatic
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Adriaticadj.n.

Brit. /ˌeɪdrɪˈatɪk/, U.S. /ˌeɪdriˈædɪk/
Forms: late Middle English–1600s Adriatike, 1500s Adriatycke, 1500s Adriatyke, 1500s Adryatike, 1500s Hadriatyque, 1500s–1600s Adriaticke, 1500s–1600s Adriaticque, 1500s–1600s Hadriatique, 1500s–1700s Adriatick, 1500s–1700s Adriatique, 1600s Adriatiq, 1600s Adriattick, 1600s Adriatticke, 1600s Adriattique, 1600s Hadriaticke, 1600s Hadriattick, 1600s–1700s Adriatik, 1600s–1700s Hadriatic, 1600s–1700s Hadriatick, 1600s– Adriatic.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin Hadriāticus, Adriāticus.
Etymology: < classical Latin Hadriāticus (also Adriāticus) of, relating to, or designating the Adriatic Sea < Hadria (also Adria ), the name of a town in ancient Italy, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea + -āticus -atic suffix. Compare Middle French adriatique , adjective, Adriatique , noun (beginning of the 16th cent.; French adriatique , Adriatique ). Compare Adriatical adj.In Adriatic Sea n. at sense A. 1 after classical Latin Hadriāticum mare. With use as noun compare classical Latin Hadriāticum (neuter). In Old English and Middle English in unassimilated form (Adriaticum , Addriaticum , Atriaticum , Adriaticus ) as a place name (compare sense A. 1):OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) xxxiv. 465 Seo dun stent..wið ðære sæ adriaticum twelf mila on upstige fram anre byrig.OE Blickling Homilies 197 Betwih þære sæ seo is nemned Adriaticus.OE tr. Orosius Hist. (Tiber.) (1980) i. i. 18 Be suðan Istria is se Wendelsæ þe man hæt Atriaticum.OE tr. Orosius Hist. (Tiber.) (1980) i. i. 21 Ðara iglanda þe man hæt Ciclades, þara sindon þreo & fiftig, & be eastan him is se [Ica]risca sæ, & be suðan se Cretisca, & be norðan se Egisca, & be westan Addriaticum.a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 139 Heleyne..þrewe þe fourþe into þe see Adriaticus.a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xv. clxviii. 820 Venix, þe whiche prouynce streccheþ fro þe clyffe of þee see Adriaticum anoone to þe ryuer Padus.
A. adj.
1. Adriatic Sea n. (in early use also †Sea Adriatic) (the name of) the sea between the Italian peninsula and the Balkans.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > specific seas > [noun] > of northern hemisphere
Adriatic Sea?a1475
North Seas1548
Adriatic1603
Propontic1603
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 255 (MED) There be ij Germanyes; the superior whiche extendethe vn to Alpes to the bosom of..the see Adriatike [L. Adriaticum]. And the inferior Germany, towarde the weste, is abowte the floode callede Renus, whiche is callede communely Almayne.
1538 T. Elyot Dict. Curcura, an ilande in the see Adriatike.
1549 W. Thomas Hist. Italie f. 85v Landyng in those marishes of the Adriatike sea.
1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God viii. ii. 299 Magna Grecia..confronteth the Hadriatique sea.
1635 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated ii. vi. 87 The Adriatic Sea in the inmost creeke neere Venice swels neere foure foote in hight.
1750 W. Beawes Lex Mercatoria (1752) 8 In the bottom of the Adriatick Sea there were a quantity of small marshy isles, separated only by narrow canals.
1820 C. Kelly Hist. Fr. Revol. I. xiii. 614 The treaty of Vienna has given to France a great extent of territory on the Adriatic sea.
1968 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 1101/1 Friuli, the region between the Alps and the head of the Adriatic sea.
2000 C. D. Whiteman Mountain Meteorol. x. 151 A cold downslope wind is called a bora, after a wind that brings very cold air to the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea in Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia.
2. Of or relating to this sea or the lands surrounding it.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > specific seas > [adjective] > of northern hemisphere
Adriatical1549
Adrian1575
Adriatic1632
spouseless1818
Arctalian1885
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. i. 22 The breadth of Italy at the route and beginning thereof,..from the Adriaticke coast, to the riviera di Genoa.
1711 J. Petiver Gazophylacii VI. Table LII Small Gibraltar Ruggle..are also found on the Adriatick and French Mediterranean Shores.
1796 Monthly Mag. 2 615 Him would the storm-vext Adriatic surge,..The wreck of shattering worlds, Unfearing smite.
1883 G. L. Faber Fisheries of Adriatic 141 The most valued of the Adriatic fishes.
1898 Appletons' Pop. Sci. Monthly Sept. 732 The Adriatic or Dinaric race.
1933 R. S. Conway et al. Prae-Italic Dial. Italy II. iv. 213 This Picene culture extends along the Adriatic coast southwards from Rimini at least as far as the river Sangro.
1942 O. D. von Engeln Geomorphol. xxii. 572 The type doline has the form of a funnel top and occurs in the Adriatic karst.
2003 Mojo May 108/5 From the Adriatic seaport of Ancona, Yuppie Flu's arch-pop drama is a fine advert for an under-promoted Italian rock scene.
B. n.
With the: the Adriatic Sea.
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the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > specific seas > [noun] > of northern hemisphere
Adriatic Sea?a1475
North Seas1548
Adriatic1603
Propontic1603
1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 73 King Richard..was in the Adriatique driuen to land vpon the coast of Histria.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 446 A prospect down the Adriatic as far as Istria & the Dalmatian side.
1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 56 Passes that lead to the City from the Adriatic.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth I. xv. 232 The Republic of Venice claim's the Adriatic.
1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 85 Donati explored the bed of the Adriatic.
1883 F. M. Peard Contradictions I. 1 Behind them..lay the tossing and flying waves of the Adriatic.
1917 Times 19 May 6/4 Light cruisers..raided the Allied drifter line on the Adriatic and succeeded in sinking 14 British drifters.
1990 G. Will Suddenly i. xv. 45 Germany could extend from the Baltic almost to the Adriatic.
2008 Atlantic Monthly Jan. 141/1 Near the delta where the Po meets the Adriatic.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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