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Sarmatian, a. and n.|sɑːˈmeɪʃən|
[f. L. Sarmatia the land of the Sarmatæ (Gr. σαρµάται, also σαυροµάται, whence the form Sauromatian).
In mod. Latin Sarmatia has been extensively used for Poland: hence occas. in English poetry, e.g.
1799Campbell Pleas. Hope i. 376 Sarmatia fell, unwept, without a crime.]
A. adj.
a. Of or belonging to the region north of the Black Sea, anciently known as Sarmatia, now included in the U.S.S.R.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 394 Ptolemey..confineth Sarmatia Europæa with the Sarmatian Ocean. 1800Shaw Gen. Zool. I. ii. 430 Sarmatian Weesel, Viverra Sarmatica. 1841Alison Hist. Europe (1847) IX. 187 [Vienna was] anciently the frontier station of the Roman empire upon the Sarmatian wilds.
b. Geol. = Sarmatic b.
1882Geikie Text-Bk. Geol. 867 Sarmatian or Cerithium Stage. Ibid., The Sarmatian stage is characterized by the prodigious number of individuals of a comparatively small number of species of shells.
B. n.
a. One of a nomadic people formerly inhabiting Sarmatia.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 393 Of the Scythians, Sarmatians, and Seres. 1671Milton P.R. iv. 78. 1771 Robertson Hist. Amer. i. (1851) I. 22 The wandering tribes, which they called by the general name of Sarmatians or Scythians. 1886Encycl. Brit. XXI. 311/1 Scythians and Sarmatians spoke almost the same language.
b. The language of the Sarmatians, known only from Greek inscriptions in the southern U.S.S.R., and now regarded as a member of the Iranian group.
1922O. Jespersen tr. R. Rask in Language ii. 39, I divide our family of languages in this way: the Indian..Iranic..Thracian..Sarmatian (Lettic..and Slavonic),..Gothic..and Keltic. 1939L. H. Gray Foundations of Lang. 320 Old Sakian..and Old Sarmatian are preserved only in a few proper names and glosses. 1972W. B. Lockwood Panorama of Indo-Europ. Lang. 235 The exiguous records of the Median language are of the same character as those of Scythian and Sarmatian. |