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单词 cumaean
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Cumaeanadj.n.

/kjuːˈmiːən/
Etymology: < Cumae (Latin Cūmae, Greek Κύμη), an ancient city on the Italian coast near Naples, founded by the Greeks in the 8th cent. b.c. + -an suffix.
A. adj.
Of or pertaining to Cumæ, esp. famous for the Sibyl mentioned by Virgil in the ‘Æneid’.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > named regions of earth > named cities or towns > [adjective] > in Italy > ancient cities or towns
Venusian1616
Pompeian1662
Cumaean1731
Herculanean1780
1731 J. Trapp tr. Virgil Æneis vi, in tr. Virgil Wks. II. 347 Have you been led thro' the Cumæan Cave, And heard th 'impatient Maid divinely rave?
1803 C. Wilmot Let. 6 Mar. (1920) 168 Aeneas..landed at the Cumaean shore a little way from the Lake Avernus.
1870 E. C. Brewer Dict. Phrase & Fable 819/1 The Cumæan sibyl was the conductor of Virgil to the infernal regions.
1968 Encycl. Brit. VI. 889/1 The antrum (cave) famous in legend as the seat of the oracle of the Cumaean Sibyl.
B. n.
A native or inhabitant of Cumæ.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of ancient or medieval Europe > native or inhabitant of states or regions Italy > [noun]
Albana1387
Latina1398
Venetian1432
Picentine1598
sybarite1598
Faliscan1600
Picene1601
sybaritan1608
Picenian1610
Peucetian1615
Pompeian1654
Praenestine1683
Iapygian1773
Messapian1773
Atestine1924
Cumaean1931
1931 D. Randall-MacIver Greek Cities in Italy & Sicily i. 6 The Cumaeans, says Pausanias, showed a small stone urn in the cemetery of Apollo which they said contained her [sc. the Sibyl's] bones.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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