Croatiann.adj.

Brit.

/krəʊˈeɪʃn/, U.S.

/kroʊˈeɪʃən/

Forms:

α. 1500s–1600s Croacian, 1500s– Croatian, 1700s Kroatian.

β. 1600s Crouatian, 1600s–1700s Crobatian, 1700s Cravatian.

Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Croatia , -an suffix.

Etymology: < Croatia, the name of a country in south-eastern Europe ( < post-classical Latin Croatia (12th cent.; < Croatae (although that is apparently first attested later: see Croat n.) + -ia -ia suffix¹)) + -an suffix. With the β. forms, compare Croat n. Compare French Croatien, noun and adjective (1542 or earlier), post-classical Latin Croatianus, noun and adjective (1610 or earlier).Early forms of the place name in English include: 15 Croacia, Croacya, 15-16 Croatia, Croacy, 16 Croatie, Chroatia, Crovatia, Crabatia. For early use of the place name in an English context, compare:1542 T. Elyot Bibliotheca Liburnia, a part of Dalmatia or Slauony, now callyd Croatia.1550 W. Lynne tr. J. Carion Thre Bks. Cronicles iii. f. cxciv The same yeare dyd the Turkes fall in to Croacia.1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 789 Of Bohemia, Vandalia, Crabatia, and many other countries king and lord.

A. n.

1. A native or inhabitant of Croatia, a country in south-eastern Europe on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea; (in some historical contexts) a member of a Slavic people who settled in south-eastern Europe by the seventh cent. a.d.; (also occasionally) a member of a regiment of Croats (Croat n. 1b). Also: a person of Croatian heritage or descent.The boundaries of the region associated with the name Croatia have varied in different periods, developing in Dalmatia but extending gradually north and west. The territory comprising modern Croatia was mostly under the control of the Habsburg Empire from the early 16th cent. until 1918 when it was incorporated into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (later Yugoslavia); it declared independence in 1991.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > ethnicities > Slav people > [noun] > Croat

Croatian1555

Croat1585

Serbo-Croat1865

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of Croatia > [noun]

Croatian1555

Croat1585

society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier of specific force or unit > [noun]

spahi1562

legionnaire1595

strelitz1603

Croat1623

deli1667

Croatian1700

lancer1712

highlander1725

lambs1744

royals1762

light-bob1778

fly-slicer1785

Life Guardsman1785

royals?1795

Hottentot1796

yeoman1798

pandour1800

Faugh-a-Ballaghsc1811

forty-two man1816

kilty1842

Zouave1848

bumblerc1850

Inniskilliner1853

blue cap1857

turco1860

Zou-Zou1860

mudlark1878

king's man1883

Johnny1888

Piffer1892

evzone1897

horse gunner1897

dink1906

army ranger1910

grognard1912

Jock1914

chocolate soldier1915

Cook's tourist1915

dinkum1916

Anzaca1918

choc1917

ranger1942

Chindit1943

Desert Rat1944

Green Beret1949

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 257^v The Bohemians, Croatians, Sclauons.

1625 P. Heylyn Μικρόκοσμος (rev. ed.) 372 The Croatians are generally, though corruptly called Corbats.

1658 T. Bromhall Treat. Specters 204 Simeon, Duke of Bulgarians, had brought War on the Crobatians.

1700 tr. F. P. Dalairac Polish Manuscripts: Secret Hist. John Sobieski III 135 The Imperial Artillery, and the Regiments of the Cravatians [Fr. Regimens des Cravates] could not pass over till this Day.

1749 S. Johnson Vanity Human Wishes 20 The fierce Croatian, and the wild Hussar.

1781 Mod. Part Universal Hist. X. xxxviii. 73 He raised eight thousand horse and sixteen thousand foot; over whom he made John Cazzinaer, a noble Kroatian, his general.

1822 Encycl. Brit. Suppl. V. 242 In 640, the Sclavonians took possession of Illyria,..and they still retain it, under the names of Servians, Croatians, and Southern Wends.

1837 Penny Cycl. VIII. 161/2 The Damascene plum furnishes the favourite drink of the Croatians.

1913 A. I. Carr Country Work & Life N.Z. 42 It is estimated that there are 8,000 Croatians..on the fields.

1994 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 21 Apr. 3/2 The Croatians may appear, for the moment, to be the war-weariest of all.

2010 Wall St. Jrnl. 4 May a5/2 At the Morovich Canal here, Croatians have formed a tight-knit community and are known as ‘takos’.

2. The South Slavonic language spoken by Croats and in Croatia, being a variety of Serbo-Croatian; (sometimes more broadly, esp. in earlier use) = Serbo-Croatian n. 2.Croatian is written in the Roman alphabet alone, distinguishing it from Serbian and other varieties of Serbo-Croatian, all of which are written using both the Cyrillic and Roman alphabets.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Balto-Slavic > Slavonic > Serbo-Croat

Bosnian1668

Croatian1825

Croat1849

Serbo-Croatian1877

Montenegrin1894

Serbo-Croat1907

Yugoslavian1924

Štokavian1925

Yugoslav1948

1825 J. Russell Tour in Germany II. vi. 360 Small tracts for the use of the peasantry have even been printed in Croatian.

1855 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 785/1 There are two main branches of Slavonic. The so-called Southern or South-Eastern branch embraces Russian, Ruthenian (in Galicia), Bulgarian, Servian, Croatian, and Slovenian.

1929 Rotarian Sept. 40/2 The Zagreb club, one of the most recently elected members of Rotary International, publishes its Weekly Letters in Croatian, the language of their country, for local purposes.

1950 Slavonic & East European Rev. 29 356 F. A. Bogadek's useful English–Croatian/Croatian–English dictionary.

2006 Penrith (Austral.) Press (Nexis) 1 Sept. 4 His own children were able to learn Croatian.

B. adj.

Of or relating to Croatia, or to Croatians or their language.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of Croatia > [adjective]

Croatian1599

Croat1652

the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > countries of Eastern Europe > [adjective] > regions of the former Yugoslavia

Croatian1599

Istrian1607

Bosnian1621

Dalmatiana1684

Illyrian1820

Montenegrian1830

Montenegrin1840

Montenegran1858

the world > people > ethnicities > Slav people > [adjective] > Croat

Croatian1786

1599 L. A. tr. M. Martínez Eighth Bk. Myrror of Knighthood vi. sig. Y^v Whereto the Croatian Lord thus said [etc.].

1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 831 The interpretours spake in the Crouatian or Sclauonian tongue, which is familiar to most of the Turks, but especially to the men of warre.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 160 The Croatian Dog, resembling a Wolfe in haire and bignesse.

1682 J. Dryden Medall 240 They..grin and whet like a Croatian band.

1786 tr. J. R. Forster Hist. Voy. & Discov. North Introd. p. xv Each tribe called itself, in general; Slave, or Sclave, with another peculiar or specific name annexed to it, e.g. Russian, Polonian,..Crobatian [Ger. Krobatische], and Bulgarian slaves.

1791 New Ann. Reg. 1790 Brit. & Foreign Hist. 68/1 The renewal of this siege was chosen to constitute the first operation of the Croatian army in the present year.

1837 Penny Cycl. VIII. 161/2 The Croatian language is a dialect of the Sclavonian.

1876 A. J. Evans Through Bosnia i. 15 The Croatian dress resembles that of all the Southern Sclaves.

1921 Glasgow Herald 8 Jan. 6 Their intrigues with the Croatian separatists.

1950 Slavonic & East European Rev. 29 356 It has no reference tables on Croatian morphology and accents.

1994 Ms. Mar. 19/1 Interethnic marriages where..the husband is Serbian and the wife is Croatian.

2009 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 6 Sept. (Travel section) 10/4 Order a bottle of excellent grasevina,..and Croatian fare concocted from market goodies.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	croatian
释义	Croatiann.adj. Brit. /krəʊˈeɪʃn/, U.S. /kroʊˈeɪʃən/ Forms: α. 1500s–1600s Croacian, 1500s– Croatian, 1700s Kroatian. β. 1600s Crouatian, 1600s–1700s Crobatian, 1700s Cravatian. Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Croatia , -an suffix. Etymology: < Croatia, the name of a country in south-eastern Europe ( < post-classical Latin Croatia (12th cent.; < Croatae (although that is apparently first attested later: see Croat n.) + -ia -ia suffix¹)) + -an suffix. With the β. forms, compare Croat n. Compare French Croatien, noun and adjective (1542 or earlier), post-classical Latin Croatianus, noun and adjective (1610 or earlier).Early forms of the place name in English include: 15 Croacia, Croacya, 15-16 Croatia, Croacy, 16 Croatie, Chroatia, Crovatia, Crabatia. For early use of the place name in an English context, compare:1542 T. Elyot Bibliotheca Liburnia, a part of Dalmatia or Slauony, now callyd Croatia.1550 W. Lynne tr. J. Carion Thre Bks. Cronicles iii. f. cxciv The same yeare dyd the Turkes fall in to Croacia.1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 789 Of Bohemia, Vandalia, Crabatia, and many other countries king and lord. A. n. 1. A native or inhabitant of Croatia, a country in south-eastern Europe on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea; (in some historical contexts) a member of a Slavic people who settled in south-eastern Europe by the seventh cent. a.d.; (also occasionally) a member of a regiment of Croats (Croat n. 1b). Also: a person of Croatian heritage or descent.The boundaries of the region associated with the name Croatia have varied in different periods, developing in Dalmatia but extending gradually north and west. The territory comprising modern Croatia was mostly under the control of the Habsburg Empire from the early 16th cent. until 1918 when it was incorporated into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (later Yugoslavia); it declared independence in 1991. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > Slav people > [noun] > Croat Croatian1555 Croat1585 Serbo-Croat1865 the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of Croatia > [noun] Croatian1555 Croat1585 society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier of specific force or unit > [noun] spahi1562 legionnaire1595 strelitz1603 Croat1623 deli1667 Croatian1700 lancer1712 highlander1725 lambs1744 royals1762 light-bob1778 fly-slicer1785 Life Guardsman1785 royals?1795 Hottentot1796 yeoman1798 pandour1800 Faugh-a-Ballaghsc1811 forty-two man1816 kilty1842 Zouave1848 bumblerc1850 Inniskilliner1853 blue cap1857 turco1860 Zou-Zou1860 mudlark1878 king's man1883 Johnny1888 Piffer1892 evzone1897 horse gunner1897 dink1906 army ranger1910 grognard1912 Jock1914 chocolate soldier1915 Cook's tourist1915 dinkum1916 Anzaca1918 choc1917 ranger1942 Chindit1943 Desert Rat1944 Green Beret1949 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 257^v The Bohemians, Croatians, Sclauons. 1625 P. Heylyn Μικρόκοσμος (rev. ed.) 372 The Croatians are generally, though corruptly called Corbats. 1658 T. Bromhall Treat. Specters 204 Simeon, Duke of Bulgarians, had brought War on the Crobatians. 1700 tr. F. P. Dalairac Polish Manuscripts: Secret Hist. John Sobieski III 135 The Imperial Artillery, and the Regiments of the Cravatians [Fr. Regimens des Cravates] could not pass over till this Day. 1749 S. Johnson Vanity Human Wishes 20 The fierce Croatian, and the wild Hussar. 1781 Mod. Part Universal Hist. X. xxxviii. 73 He raised eight thousand horse and sixteen thousand foot; over whom he made John Cazzinaer, a noble Kroatian, his general. 1822 Encycl. Brit. Suppl. V. 242 In 640, the Sclavonians took possession of Illyria,..and they still retain it, under the names of Servians, Croatians, and Southern Wends. 1837 Penny Cycl. VIII. 161/2 The Damascene plum furnishes the favourite drink of the Croatians. 1913 A. I. Carr Country Work & Life N.Z. 42 It is estimated that there are 8,000 Croatians..on the fields. 1994 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 21 Apr. 3/2 The Croatians may appear, for the moment, to be the war-weariest of all. 2010 Wall St. Jrnl. 4 May a5/2 At the Morovich Canal here, Croatians have formed a tight-knit community and are known as ‘takos’. 2. The South Slavonic language spoken by Croats and in Croatia, being a variety of Serbo-Croatian; (sometimes more broadly, esp. in earlier use) = Serbo-Croatian n. 2.Croatian is written in the Roman alphabet alone, distinguishing it from Serbian and other varieties of Serbo-Croatian, all of which are written using both the Cyrillic and Roman alphabets. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Balto-Slavic > Slavonic > Serbo-Croat Bosnian1668 Croatian1825 Croat1849 Serbo-Croatian1877 Montenegrin1894 Serbo-Croat1907 Yugoslavian1924 Štokavian1925 Yugoslav1948 1825 J. Russell Tour in Germany II. vi. 360 Small tracts for the use of the peasantry have even been printed in Croatian. 1855 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 785/1 There are two main branches of Slavonic. The so-called Southern or South-Eastern branch embraces Russian, Ruthenian (in Galicia), Bulgarian, Servian, Croatian, and Slovenian. 1929 Rotarian Sept. 40/2 The Zagreb club, one of the most recently elected members of Rotary International, publishes its Weekly Letters in Croatian, the language of their country, for local purposes. 1950 Slavonic & East European Rev. 29 356 F. A. Bogadek's useful English–Croatian/Croatian–English dictionary. 2006 Penrith (Austral.) Press (Nexis) 1 Sept. 4 His own children were able to learn Croatian. B. adj. Of or relating to Croatia, or to Croatians or their language. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of Croatia > [adjective] Croatian1599 Croat1652 the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > countries of Eastern Europe > [adjective] > regions of the former Yugoslavia Croatian1599 Istrian1607 Bosnian1621 Dalmatiana1684 Illyrian1820 Montenegrian1830 Montenegrin1840 Montenegran1858 the world > people > ethnicities > Slav people > [adjective] > Croat Croatian1786 1599 L. A. tr. M. Martínez Eighth Bk. Myrror of Knighthood vi. sig. Y^v Whereto the Croatian Lord thus said [etc.]. 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 831 The interpretours spake in the Crouatian or Sclauonian tongue, which is familiar to most of the Turks, but especially to the men of warre. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 160 The Croatian Dog, resembling a Wolfe in haire and bignesse. 1682 J. Dryden Medall 240 They..grin and whet like a Croatian band. 1786 tr. J. R. Forster Hist. Voy. & Discov. North Introd. p. xv Each tribe called itself, in general; Slave, or Sclave, with another peculiar or specific name annexed to it, e.g. Russian, Polonian,..Crobatian [Ger. Krobatische], and Bulgarian slaves. 1791 New Ann. Reg. 1790 Brit. & Foreign Hist. 68/1 The renewal of this siege was chosen to constitute the first operation of the Croatian army in the present year. 1837 Penny Cycl. VIII. 161/2 The Croatian language is a dialect of the Sclavonian. 1876 A. J. Evans Through Bosnia i. 15 The Croatian dress resembles that of all the Southern Sclaves. 1921 Glasgow Herald 8 Jan. 6 Their intrigues with the Croatian separatists. 1950 Slavonic & East European Rev. 29 356 It has no reference tables on Croatian morphology and accents. 1994 Ms. Mar. 19/1 Interethnic marriages where..the husband is Serbian and the wife is Croatian. 2009 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 6 Sept. (Travel section) 10/4 Order a bottle of excellent grasevina,..and Croatian fare concocted from market goodies. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1555
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