单词 | etrurian |
释义 | Etruriann.adj. 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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