单词 | Germanic |
释义 | Germanic/dʒəːˈmanɪk /adjective 1Relating to or denoting the branch of the Indo-European language family that includes English, German, Dutch, Frisian, and the Scandinavian languages.Frisian is a Germanic language similar to both Dutch and English....
1.1Relating to or denoting the peoples of ancient northern and western Europe speaking Germanic languages.As western Europe fell to the Germanic invasions, imperial power shifted to the Byzantine Empire, that is, the eastern part of the Roman Empire, with its capital at Constantinople....
2Having characteristics of or attributed to Germans or Germany: she had an almost Germanic regard for order...
noun [mass noun] 1The Germanic languages collectively. See also East Germanic, North Germanic, West Germanic.This codification of 643 was the result of a triple translation: from oral to written, from Germanic to Latin, and from memory to document....
1.1The unrecorded ancient language from which the Germanic languages developed, thought to have been spoken on the shores of the Baltic Sea in the 3rd millennium bc. Also called Proto-Germanic.To reconstruct anything above the level of Germanic, we have to have data from languages outside of Germanic. OriginMid 17th century: from Latin Germanicus, from Germanus (see German). Rhymes |
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