单词 | etist |
释义 | etistn. historical. Now rare. With reference to the 16th cent.: a person pronouncing the Greek letter η as /eɪ/ as opposed to /iː/. Opposed to itacist n. at itacism n. Derivatives. Cf. etacist n. at etacism n. Derivatives. ΚΠ 1816 Fundgruben des Orients 5 435 The literary feuds of Erasmus, Beza, Cheke, Scaliger, Wetstein and many other learned champions, where the Aitists and Etists give..play to their disputes. 1856 F. W. Farrar Infl. Revival Classical Stud. on Eng. Lit. i. 4 Cambridge resounded with the controversies of Itacists and Etists. 1919 C. Whibley Lit. Stud. 42 The etists won in the end, and..it is to him [sc. Thomas Smith] and to Cheke that we owe the fashion of pronouncing Greek which prevails to-day. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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