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单词 aeolic
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Aeolicadj.n.

Brit. /ɪˈɒlɪk/, /ɪˈəʊlɪk/, /eɪˈɒlɪk/, /eɪˈəʊlɪk/, U.S. /iˈoʊlɪk/, /eɪˈoʊlɪk/
Forms: 1600s Aeolik, 1600s Aeolique, 1600s Eolique, 1600s–1700s Aeolick, 1600s–1700s Eolick, 1600s– Aeolic, 1700s– Eolic. Also with lower-case initial.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin Aeolicus.
Etymology: < classical Latin Aeolicus of or connected with the Aeolians or Aeolis, Aeolian < Hellenistic Greek Αἰολικός of or like the Aeolians, also used with reference to the Aeolic dialect and the Aeolic metre < ancient Greek Αἰολίς (see Aeolian adj.) + -ικός -ic suffix. Compare Middle French eolique , French éolique (1586 in digame eolique ; rare before mid 18th cent.). Compare Aeolian adj.Compare the following earlier contextual borrowing of post-classical Latin Aeolice, adverb (1503 or earlier), with reference to the Aeolic dialect of ancient Greek:1565 J. Jewel Replie Hardinges Answeare iii. 164 They spake Ionicê, Aeolicè, or Doricè, whiche tongues were adioininge fast vpon Lycaonia.
A. adj.
1. Of or relating to Aeolia or to the Aeolians or their language (see Aeolian n. 1); Aeolian.
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1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 890 Whom doe the Bœotians meane by this word, Platychætas? Those whose houses joine one to another, or whose lands doe border.., in the Aeolique language they called so [Gk. αἰολίζοντες οὕτω καλοῦσιν], as if they would say, being neere neighbours.
1663 E. Leigh Fœlix Consortium ii. vi. 62 The Greek Language is difficult by reason of the many Dialects, the Attick common, Eolick, Ionick and Dorick.
1694 J. Milner Def. Arch-bishop Usher i. 26 The Æolick migration was said to be 4 generations before the Ionick.
1734 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. II. 314 The Æolick dialect was at first used by the Bœotians and their neighbours.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) Æolic, Æolic verse..is otherwise called Eulogic.
1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece I. i. i. 68 The worship of the Sminthian Apollo..dates before the earliest periods of Æolic colonization.
1884 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 5 508 The older songs were composed in the Aeolic dialect and transferred to the Ionic dialect after the Homerids had emigrated from Aeolic Smyrna to Ionic Chios.
1950 W. B. Dinsmoor Archit. Anc. Greece (ed. 3) Gloss. 387 Aeolic, the palmiform capital evolved by the Aeolic Greeks of northwest Asia Minor.
1989 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 631/2 It has long been thought that some of the features that Thessalian and, even more, Boeotian (both of which are Aeolic) shared in the 1st millenium with West Greek can be attributed to ‘recent’ influences.
2. Geomorphology. Usually with lower-case initial. = Aeolian adj. 2b.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > deposited by water, ice, or wind > [adjective] > by wind
Aeolian1853
Aeolic1890
1890 Nature 9 Jan. 231/2 Most extensive are the aeolic or air formations, of which the vertical root-like tubes and irregularly-formed lime concretions are characteristic.
1913 H. Gadow Wanderings Animals ii. 33 Other so-called aeolic formations, for instance the loess of China.
1989 S. S. Rao Acid Stress & Aquatic Microbial Interactions vii. 119 Overgrazing..resulting in the gradual development of aeolic drift sands.
2007 A. Albino in Z. Gasparini et al. Patagonian Mesozoic Reptiles iv. 94 Aeolic sediments are recognized by other authors in outcrops of the Bajo de la Carpa Formation.
B. n.
Any of a group of ancient Greek dialects, including those of Aeolia, Lesbos, Thessaly, and Boeotia.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Greek > Greek dialects
common dialect1604
Aeolic1606
Ionic1606
Ionic dialect1629
Athenian1638
Theban1820
Laconian1830
Doric1837
Rumelian1859
Pamphylian1880
Tsakonian1902
Pontic1910
Thessalian1910
koine1913
Messenian1928
Macedonian1933
Mycenaean1955
1606 A. Craig Amorose Songes To Rdr. Smyrnean Maeonides vsed in his delicate Poems diuers Dialects, as Ionic, Æolic, Attic, and Doric.
1698 Earl of Orrery Dr. Bentley's Diss. Examin'd 41 Alcæus, Sappho, and Simonides, were born in places where the Ionic was spoken, and yet wrote their Lyric Poems in Æolic, or Doric.
1715 A. Pope Pref. Homer's Illiad. Pref. E+l (v) The feebler Æolic, which often rejects its Aspirate, or takes off its Accent.
1833 Penny Cycl. I. 147 The name Æolic is often applied to a branch or dialect of the Greek language.
1880 A. H. Sayce Introd. Sci. Lang. II. vii. 105 Lesbian Aeolic has gone furthest in the path of phenetic and grammatical change.
1910 C. D. Buck Introd. Study Greek Dial. i. 7 Conservative procedure here consists in recognizing Arcado-Cyprian, or Achaean, as a distinct group intermediate between Aeolic and Attic-Ionic.
1965 Language 41 314 The closest connexions of linear B are with Arcado-Cypriot and next with Aeolic.
1989 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 631/2 Scholars..have tried in various ways to combine the other three into two divisions (e.g. by considering Aeolic and Arcado-Cypriot as varieties of ‘central’ Greek).

Compounds

Aeolic digamma n. [after classical Latin Aeolicum digammon; compare Aeolica littera Aeolic letter, and also French digamma éolique (1586 in Middle French as digame eolique)] the sixth letter of the early Greek alphabet preserved in the Aeolic dialect (see digamma n.).
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1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ iii. iv. 560 The Insertion of the Æolick Digamma, (which is alwayes done when two vowels meet).
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at F This Letter is derived to us from the Romans, who borrowed it from the Æolians; for the F does not at all differ from the Æolic Digamma, or double Gamma, thus call'd as resembling two Γ's, one over the other.
1788 Encycl. Brit. I. 142/1 The Æolic digama is a name given to the letter F, which the Æolians used to prefix to words beginning with vowels.
1845 Encycl. Metrop. (1847) I. 94/1 The Æolic digamma is described by Dionysus of Halicarnassus, in the 1st book of his Antiquities.
1887 Classical Rev. 1 290/1 The marked difference between the laws of the Homeric and Aeolic digamma.
1916 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 37 38 One of the Greek Prosody paragraphs dealt with the Aeolic Digamma.
1989 Mod. Lang. Rev. 84 422 It contains nothing comparable with Bentley's dazzling realization that the Aeolic digamma had once featured in the text of Homer.
Aeolic mode n. = Aeolian mode at Aeolian adj. 1b.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > system of sounds or intervals > [noun] > medieval mode > authentic modes
Aeolian1589
Ionian1589
authent1597
Dorian mode1603
authentic1609
Ionic1616
Aeolic mode1636
Locrian1753
hyperdorian1761
hyperionian1761
hyperlydian1761
Aeolian mode?1775
Ionian mode?1775
1636 C. Butler Princ. Musik i. i. 2 Dhe Æolik Mood..with its soft pleasing sounds, pacifyeth dhe Passions of dhe mind.
1654 J. Playford Breefe Introd. Skill Musick viii. 18 The Æolick Mood was that which was of a more Ayery and soft pleasing sounds, as your Madrigals, or Fa la's of five and six parts.
1674 J. Playford Introd. Skill Musick (ed. 7) i. 59 The Æolick Mood, was that which was of a more Airy and soft pleasing sound.
1756 W. Tans'ur New Musical Gram. (ed. 3) 161/2 Eolick Mood, an ancient Mood, soft and melting.
1875 A. J. Ellis tr. H. L. F. von Helmholtz On Sensations of Tone xiv. 421 The Descending Minor Scale (Hypodoric or Eolic mode of the ancient Greeks—our mode of the minor Third).
1983 G. L. Koniaris tr. Maximus of Tyre in Classical Antiq. 2 244 If he ever had to perform something in the Ionic or again in the Aeolic mode.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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