单词 | dacian |
释义 | Dacianadj.n. A. adj. Thesaurus » Of or pertaining to Dacia, an ancient country of south-eastern Europe, or its people, or their language. B. n. 1. A member of this people. 2. The language of this people. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of ancient or medieval Europe > other inhabitants of ancient Europe > [noun] Old Saxona1387 Massilian1563 Pannonian1578 Silurist1650 Dacian1776 West German1854 Massaliot1856 a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 378 We came to the Forum Trajanum where his Culumna stands yet intire, wrough<t> with admirable Bass-relievo & comprehending the Dacian War. a1773 A. Butler Moveable Feasts Catholic Church (1774) iii. 134 The most illustrious Roman Conquerors often took Names..from Countries which they had subdued..as the African,..the Germanic, Dacic, &c. 1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. i. 5 The Dacians, the most warlike of men, who dwelt beyond the Danube. 1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV cxli. 73 There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother—he, their sire, Butcher'd to make a Roman holiday. 1837 Penny Cycl. VIII. 281/2 Domitian celebrated his pretended exploits against the Dacians by assuming the title Dacicus. 1847 Howitt's Jrnl. 12 June 325/2 A sentence or two will enable the reader to compare the modern Dacian with the ancient Roman. 1847 Howitt's Jrnl. 12 June 326/1 The adoption of the Cyrillian alphabet had the effect of carrying away..the association of Dacian words from their Latin sources. 1861 F. M. Müller Lect. Sci. Lang. iv. 116 We possess fragments of Dacian speech in the botanical names collected by Dioskorides. 1877 Encycl. Brit. VI. 758/2 He advanced to the Dacian capital. 1877 Encycl. Brit. VI. 758/2 The Dacians come forward as one of the most powerful enemies of Rome. 1948 Oxf. Junior Encycl. I. 413/1 Later began a series of invasions by Goths, Tartars, Huns and Magyars.., all of whom left their mark on the Dacian people. 1959 Chambers's Encycl. XII. 51/2 The remote ancestors of the Rumanians were the Dacians who inhabited lands north and south of the Lower Danube. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.n.a1684 |
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