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Neapolitan, a. and n.|niːəˈpɒlɪtən|
Also 6–7 Neo-.
[ad. L. Neāpolītān-us, f. Neāpolītēs (see -ite), f. Neāpolis (Gr. νεάπολις, new town), Naples.]
A. adj.
a. Belonging or native to, distinctive or characteristic of, connected with, Naples.
1596Shakes. Merch. V. i. ii. 43 First there is the Neopolitane Prince. 1617Moryson Itin iii. 133 English Coursers, bred of the Neapolitan Horses and English Mares. 1664Evelyn Kal. Hort. (1729) 234 Medlars. The Great Dutch, Neopolitan and One without Stones. 1705Addison Italy 203 The Lybian Port is but the Neapolitan Bay in little. 1797Mrs. Radcliffe Italian xii, The strangers of distinction, dressed in the splendid Neapolitan habit. 1830Lyell Princ. Geol. i. vi. (1837) I. 141 Recent shells procured..from the Neapolitan seas. 1862Burgon Lett. fr. Rome xxii. 276 There seemed in fact a marked change of race on getting into the Neapolitan States.
b. In special uses. † Neapolitan disease (also euphem., Neapolitan consolation, Neapolitan favour), a form of syphilis (cf. Naples 1 a). Neapolitan ice, a block of ice cream made in layers of different colours and flavours; also transf. and fig. Neapolitan maple (see quots.). Neapolitan ointment, a mercurial ointment used for syphilis. † Neapolitan scab = N. disease. Neapolitan sixth (see quots.). Neapolitan system (see quots.). Neapolitan violet, a double sweet-scented variety of viola. Neapolitan yellow, Naples yellow.
a1704T. Brown Lett. to Gent. & Ladies Wks. 1709 III. ii. 47 Had'st thou administered a little *Neapolitan Consolation to thy Hibernian.
1656Blount Glossogr., *Neopolitan disease. a1704T. Brown Pleasant Lett. to Gent. Wks. 1709 III. ii. 7 That which we call the Neapolitan Disease. 1777Robertson America (1783) II. 76 This distemper..has been sometimes called the Neapolitan and sometimes the French disease.
1592Greene Conny Catch. Wks. (Grosart) X. 44 They..find nothing but a *Neapolitan fauour for their labour.
1895‘M. Ronald’ Century Cook Bk. xxii. 498 *Neapolitan ice-cream. This cream is molded in brick form in three layers of different flavors and colors. 1911Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 26 Apr. 7/1 (Advt.), Ice Cream Bricks, Neapolitan, Vanilla, Strawberry, Pineapple, [etc.]. 1933A. Huxley Let. 29 Apr. (1969) 369 Mexico was..very curious. Such a strange Neapolitan ice, with its layers of Indian, mestizo, white. 1954― Let. 25 Oct. (1969) 714 We have to think of the mind in terms of a stratified Neapolitan ice, with a peculiar flavour of consciousness at each level. 1969R. & D. De Sola Dict. Cooking 158/1 Neapolitan ice cream, ice-cream brick containing several flavors arranged in contrasting color layers, usually chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry.
1833Penny Cycl. I. 77/1 Acer obtusatum, the *Neapolitan maple. 1882Garden 18 Nov. 459/2 The Neapolitan Maple, with its reddish purple branches, is a handsome tree.
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp s.v., *Neapolitan ointment..is a mixture of quicksilver, and other things into an ointment. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 469 He has several times seen E. iris to follow a friction with Neapolitan ointment.
1671H. M. tr. Erasm. Colloq. 531 The New Leprosie, which some..do call the *Neapolitan scab.
1871Stainer Harmony xii. §138 A chord consisting of the sub-dominant and its minor third and minor sixth is used in the major or minor mode. It is called the *Neapolitan Sixth. 1889E. Prout Harmony (ed. 10) xii. §276 The first inversion of this chord is generally known as the ‘Neapolitan sixth’, a name for which it is difficult to give a satisfactory reason.
1959Reese & Dormer Bridge Player's Dict. 151 *Neapolitan System,..one of the principal Italian systems, played by Forquet and Siniscalco and others. It is one-club system, with a series of artificial responses. 1962Listener 22 Nov. 886/2 West, playing the Neapolitan system, opened Two Diamonds. 1964Official Encycl. Bridge 374/2 Neapolitan, a system..played in many World Championship events by a group of Neapolitan players.
1836Loudon Encycl. Plants 187 Viola odorata is a favorite flower... The double purple and the *Neapolitan are the most esteemed varieties. 1843Penny Cycl. XXVI. 344/1 Some of them have double flowers, which is the case in the variety known as the Neapolitan violet.
1891Thorpe Dict. Applied Chem. II. 692/2 *Neapolitan Yellow.
B. n.
a. An inhabitant or native of the kingdom or city of Naples.
1412–20Lydg Chron. Troy I. (MS. Digby 230) lf. 34 Cecile,..To wiche ful many Neapolitan longith this day. 1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, v. i. 117 A blood-bespotted Neopolitan, Out-cast of Naples. 1610― Temp. ii. ii. 117 O Stephano, two Neapolitanes scap'd. 1670G. H. Hist. Cardinals i. i. 8 The poor Neapolitan..was not slow to take his leave. 1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) II. 227 Cardinal Gieronimo Casanata, a Neapolitan. 1822W. Robinson in J. A. Heraud Life Midshipm. v. (1837) 81 Genoese, French, Sards, and Neapolitans. 1862Burgon Lett. fr. Rome xxii. 278 Two Neapolitans..soon entered into conversation with me.
†b. (See quot.) Obs. rare—1.
1597Morley Introd. Mus. 180 The Neapolitans or Canzone a la Napolitana, different from them [sc. canzonets] in nothing sauing in name.
†c. The Neapolitan disease. Obs. rare—1.
1631T. Powell Tom of All Trades 28 Their best benefactor [is] the Neapolitan.
d. A dialect or language of Naples.
1598Florio Worlde of Wordes Epistle Dedicatorie, How shall we, naie how may we ayme at the Venetian, at the Romane, at the Lombard, at the Neapolitane, at so manie, and so much differing Dialects, and Idiomes, as be vsed and spoken in Italie, besides the Florentine? 1901M. Carmichael In Tuscany 99 Had Dante been born not at Florence but in Venice and written in Venetian, had Petrarch been born not at Arezzo but in Naples and written in Neapolitan, there would have been two classical languages in Italy today. 1936G. F.-H. & J. Berkeley Italy in Making II. xviii. 276 As a general rule he spoke French or Neapolitan, not Italian. 1973A. Price October Men xi. 157 The man's Italian was..faultless... There was even..the hint of Neapolitan in it. |