单词 | aeolic |
释义 | Aeolicadj.n. A. adj. 1. Of or relating to Aeolia or to the Aeolians or their language (see Aeolian n. 1); Aeolian. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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.). ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < adj.n.1603 |
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