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单词 etrurian
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Etruriann.adj.

Brit. /ᵻˈtrʊərɪən/, U.S. /əˈtrʊriən/
Forms: 1500s–1600s Hetrurian, 1500s– Etrurian.
Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Etruria , -an suffix.
Etymology: < Etruria (classical Latin Etrūria ), the name of an ancient state in central Italy + -an suffix. Compare Etruscan adj. and n.Etruria occurs as a place name in English contexts earliest in the Old English translation of Orosius Hist.
historical.
A. n.
A native or inhabitant of Etruria, an ancient state of central Italy situated between the rivers Arno and Tiber and corresponding approximately to modern Tuscany and parts of Umbria; = Etruscan n. 1.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Italians > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Italy > parts of
Lombard1377
Etrurian1546
Etruscan1563
Ligurian1601
Umbrian1601
Apulian1607
Calabrian1615
Tuscana1640
Piedmontese1647
Romagnese1762
Romagnol1768
Romagnan1832
Romagnola1845
Emilian1893
transpadane1896
Friulian1959
1546 T. Langley tr. P. Vergil Abridgem. Notable Worke vii. iii. f. cxxxviiv The Frisonaries is another brood which began among the Hetrurians in the countie of Luces [L. Alia Frisonaria, a loco in Lucensi agro Hetruriae regione].
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. iii. sig. H8/1 Decij, three Roman Captaines,..the Sonne [vowed himself] against the Hetrurians.
1670 W. Temple Poems 17 Thus liv'd the ancient Sabines, thus the bold Etrurians, so renown'd and fear'd of old.
1718 Free-thinker No. 52. 1 The Romans learnt, what they knew of this Mysterious Doctrine, from the Etrurians.
1797 T. Holcroft tr. F. L. Stolberg Trav. (ed. 2) III. lxxvi. 133 Nola..was founded eight hundred and one years before the birth of Christ, and, according to the same Velleius, by the Etrurians.
1829 Foreign Rev. 3 252 On the religion and divination of the Etrurians—their priests and divinities.
1870 J. Thomas Univ. Pronouncing Dict. Biogr. & Mythol. I. 186/1 Aruns, an Etrurian,..is said to have invited the Gauls into Italy to revenge himself for an insult offered to his wife.
1918 Geogr. Rev. 5 68 If the Etrurians were thus well informed concerning one island of these eastern Atlantic archipelagoes, it is a fair conjecture that they had visited the others.
2004 J. Farrell in R. L. Fowler Cambr. Compan. Homer xvi. 257 Gladiatorial contests originated among the Etrurians in a context of ritual sacrifice.
B. adj.
Of or belonging to ancient Etruria; = Etruscan adj. 1.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > Italy > [adjective] > parts of Italy
Lombardish1489
Lombard?a1513
Etrurian1569
Perugian1585
Calabrian1594
Umbrian1601
Apulian1607
Ausonian1607
Longobard1625
Vicentine1665
Piedmontese1676
Lombardic1697
Romagnol1820
Bolognese1821
Romagnan1832
Lucanian1863
Lombardian1865
Friulian1880
Venetic1880
Luccan1911
1569 E. Fenton tr. P. Boaistuau Certaine Secrete Wonders Nature viii. f. 21v C being taken away, ther rested but Esar, which signifieth in the Hetrurian tong [Fr. en langue Hetrusque] God.
1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. i. 11 A goblet, about which was written in Hetrurian Letters [Fr. en lettres Ethrusques]hic bibitur.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 303 In Vallombrosa, where th' Etrurian shades High overarch't imbowr. View more context for this quotation
1731 G. Stubbes New Adventure of Telemachus 20 Such were the Fruits of an Etrurian Council, assembled to impose an Arbitrary Scheme of Religion.
1797 G. Baker tr. Livy Hist. Rome V. xl. 453 Fulvius..put them on board ships,..and sent them along the Etrurian coast to Neapolis.
1842 E. Bulwer-Lytton Zanoni 23 As old as Greek or Etrurian fable.
1873 ‘Ouida’ Pascarèl iv. ii. 308 So to this hour, through all the Etrurian land, the vanished people are ever to be traced by the golden links that shine through the dust of the tombs.
1920 Irish Monthly 48 586 The shades of his Paradise are Etrurian and the vales of his Purgatory are strewn with the leavage of Vallombrosa.
1996 Classical Antiq. 15 231 The common Etrurian farmer or shepherd..must have hunted when he could or needed to, for flock-protection or the pot.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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