单词 | epichoric |
释义 | epichoricadj. Characteristic of or peculiar to a particular country or district. Cf. epichorial adj.Chiefly with reference to the multitude of local alphabets used in ancient Greece before the introduction of the standard Ionic alphabet around 400 b.c. ΚΠ 1880 Amer. Antiquarian 2 318 The position of the Cypriote language, as transmitted to us in the peculiar monumental script called epichoric Cypriote, among the other languages of antiquity has been a matter of doubt. 1895 C. D. Buck Oscan-Umbrian Verb-system 158 It does not follow..that the spelling with one i in the epichoric alphabet is proof that the form does not belong to IV. 1921 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 25 180 Giovanni Pansa describes a bronze winged statuette..and identifies it as Vacuna, the epichoric goddess of the Sabines. 1959 A. G. Woodhead Study Greek Inscriptions 18 The supersession by the Ionic alphabet of the various local, often termed ‘epichoric’, alphabets up and down Greece. 2006 Anatolian Stud. 56 68/2 The names Moles and Molesis are epichoric to the western Taurus mountains. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1880 |
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