单词 | celto-saxon |
释义 | > as lemmasCelto-Saxon a. Forming adjectives and nouns (frequently with reference to peoples and languages) with the sense ‘Celtic and ——’, or ‘partly Celtic and partly ——’, as Celto-Iberian, Celto-Saxon, Celto-Norse, etc. ΚΠ ?1608 W. B. tr. A. Ortelius Theatrum Orbis Terrarum f. xj xij For as I thinke it to be true if he meant it of the Celto-Germanes [L. Celtogermanis], so I deeme it false, if he meant it of the Celto-Galles [L. Celtogallis]. 1676 D. Langhorne Introd. Hist. Eng. 26 Plutarch in his Marius termeth them Celto-Scythians. 1744 Gentleman's Mag. July 369/2 'Tis difficult to say which Alphabet the Letter T belongs to, but it mostly resembles the Celto-Scythic. 1829 Trans. Royal Asiatic Soc. 2 562 It was by the Celto-Etruscan tribes that the worship of Isis was introduced. 1832 Gentleman's Mag. July. 15/2 The little village of Winal..perhaps well known to our Celto-Britannic, Celto-Belgic, Celto-Roman, and Celto-Saxon ancestors. 1894 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 7 325 All over Celtic or Celto-Iberian France or Spain. 1927 E. V. Gordon Introd. Old Norse 238 The Celto-Scandinavian inhabitants of Man were of Norwegian descent. 1994 Scand. Stud. 66 134 A number of toponymical anecdotes that will associate Celts or Celto-Norse with landscape features. 2008 Church Times 11 Apr. 22/3 (caption) An illuminated page from St Matthew's Gospel..from the Book of Kells, the most copiously illustrated book still surviving in the Celto-Saxon style. < as lemmas |
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