Germanicadj.¹n.

Brit.

/dʒəˈmanɪk/, U.S.

/dʒərˈmænɪk/

Forms: 1500s Germanik, 1600s Germanike, 1600s Germanique, 1600s–1700s Germanick, 1600s– Germanic.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French germanique; Latin Germānicus.

Etymology: < (i) Middle French, French germanique, †germanicque of or relating to the German language (c1455), of or relating to Germany or the Germans (a1506), of or relating to the ancient Germanic peoples (1682 in the passage translated in quot. 1687 at sense A. 2a), (in philology) of or relating to the Germanic group of Indo-European languages (G. W. Leibniz 1704, or earlier), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin Germānicus of or relating to the ancient Germanic peoples and their languages, in post-classical Latin also of or relating to medieval and modern Germany or the Germans (8th cent.) and (in philology) to the Germanic group of languages (G. W. Leibniz 1710, in the source reviewed in quot. 1711 at sense A. 2b) < Germānus German adj. + -icus -ic suffix. Compare Hellenistic Greek Γερμανικός. Compare also German germanisch (1571 with reference to Germany; 18th cent. with reference to the Germanic group of languages).French germanique is uncommon in uses relating to medieval or modern Germany (for which the usual word is allemand : see Almain adj.), but is normally used with reference to the ancient Germanic peoples and to the Germanic group of languages. German germanisch is also usually used with reference to the ancient Germanic people and the Germanic group of languages; the usual adjective designating the medieval and modern people and language is deutsch (see Dutch adj. and compare the discussion at German n.). Compare also Teutonic adj. and the discussion at that entry.

A. adj.¹

a. Of or relating to Germany or the Germans, esp. before the First World War (1914–18).For Germany see German n. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of Germany > [adjective]

Germanic1539

German1548

Germanical1560

Almanie1564

Dutchkin1576

Teutonic1647

Almain1665

transrhenanea1727

Germanish1796

Hun1820

Dutchy1862

Kraut1911

Gretchen1913

Boche1914

Hunnish1915

Fritz1919

1539 J. Gough tr. J. Le Maire Abbreuyacyon Gen. Councellys sig. C.ii (heading) The councell Germanik [Fr. germanicque], holden in the tyme of Charlemayn the great.

1602 S. Patrick tr. J. de Hainault Estate of Church 455 The inuention [sc. printing] was Germanike [Fr. inuenté par vn Alemand], and very straunge at the beginning, and of great profit: Iohn Gutemberge Knight, was the first Author of this goodly inuention.

1633 in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times Charles I (1848) (modernized text) II. 214 Setting up the Germanic liberty, and levelling of the House of Austria.

1652 E. Benlowes Theophila v. xlix. 73 Fifty Milions of Germanick Leagues.

1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. IV. 55 The association of the Germanic states would not be a sufficient security to the empire against a foreign enemy.

1777 R. Watson Hist. Reign Philip II I. ii. 19 He laboured..to establish concord among the several princes of the Germanic body.

1804 Universal Mag. June 628/2 The circumstance, doubtless, was a sufficient pretext for war, if the Germanic body had been prepared to enter into one.

1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany III. 251 Least of all could the German nation boast that the Germanic empire had recovered its ancient character and powers.

1903 Columbia Law Rev. 3 510 Another point of Germanic procedure must seem very strange to learned persons bred in the civilian tradition... Namely, the parties before the court are wholly answerable for the conduct of their own cases.

1945 H. Seton-Watson Eastern Europe between Wars (1946) vii. 268 Their distribution was modified by the pressure of the Germanic Empire and the Venetian Republic from the west, and of the Ottoman Turks from the east.

1973 L. Meynell Thirteen Trumpeters v. 80 I'm in grave danger of becoming virtuous. To see those acres of fat Germanic flesh spread out by the pool is enough to put me off for life.

2002 Sawubona (S. Afr. Airways In-flight Mag.) Sept. 22/1 Knodeln (dumplings) are big in Germanic kitchens.

b. Having characteristics or qualities attributed to Germans; regarded as typically German.

ΚΠ

1798 Monthly Mag. July 41/2 His [sc. Friedrich Nicolai's] ‘Sebaldus Nothanker’, relished in Germany for presenting pictures of their former manners, is, in our country, sufficiently prolix and Germanic, not to give pleasure to the reader of taste.

1819 M. Wilmot Let. 3 Sept. in E. Londonderry More Lett. (1935) 13 Our journey by this time was growing very Germanic—our dinners often good, but sometimes Venison steeped many days in Vinegar.

1867 M. Arnold On Study Celtic Lit. 96 I say that there is a Celtic element in the English nature, as well as a Germanic element, and that this element manifests itself in our spirit and literature.

1940 P. Sturges Lady Eve in Five Screenplays (1986) 501 Mr. Pike's office—in the Bridgefield Brewing Company... This is somewhat oaky and Germanic and suggests the lair of a beer baron.

1984 C. Wilson Lord of Underworld 15 The style of his books is Germanic and obscure.

2009 I. Thomson Dead Yard xxii. 297 Some of their houses..have a Germanic aspect.

a. Of or relating to the peoples of ancient northern and western Europe who spoke Germanic (see sense B.) or their descendants.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > ethnicities > Germanic people > [adjective]

Teutonic1619

Gothic1647

Germanic1687

pan-Germanic1850

pan-German1862

pan-Teutonic1863

pan-Gothic1879

Gothonic1912

1687 tr. J. Spon Hist. Geneva 213 Caracalla was Sirnamed when he held the sixteenth time the Office of Tribune, Germanick [Fr. Germanique] and Britannick.

1696 A. Gavin tr. J. Dubourdieu Hist. Diss. Thebean Legion xii. 78 Now and then they took their Names from the Countries and Frontiers that were committed to their charge, as the Germanick [Fr. Germaniques], and the Pannonick Legions, appointed to Guard the Empire in Hungary and Germany.

1722 Mem. Lit. (ed. 2) II. 228 For 'tis well known that these Words, King, Konig, Chagan, Can, denote, or denoted, a Monarch, a Great Man, among all the Germanick Nations.

1774 R. Henry Hist. Great Brit. II. iii. 215 But though these Germanic nations differed very much from one another..yet they appear to have sprung from the same origin.

1801 R. Patton Princ. Asiatic Monarchies v. 320 Even the Germanic constitution, of whose previous existence there is ample testimony in the codes of the barbarians, is best explained from the capitularies of his [sc. Charlemagne's] reign.

1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands II. 26 The Roman empire during the Germanic invasions.

a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) I. 6 [Gothic] is the architecture of the Germanic nations.

1909 F. B. Gummere Oldest Eng. Epic p. viii These two poems [sc. Deor and Widsith]..contain many references to persons and stories of Germanic heroic legends.

1928 W. W. Lawrence Beowulf & Epic Trad. 4 Anglo-Saxon verse..was..rooted in the traditions of professional singers, the main features of whose craft were shared by the poets of the other peoples of Germanic stock.

1963 R. W. V. Elliott in S. B. Greenfield Stud. in Honor of A. G. Brodeur 64 Originality of invention was not the Germanic scop's aim.

2007 L. E. Mitchell Family Life in Middle Ages i. i. 22 Germanic culture was agrarian, not urban, and did not share in the Roman obsession for complex administrative systems and hierarchies.

b. Designating, of, or relating to the Indo-European language of the Germanic peoples, spec. the ancient unrecorded language from which modern forms developed (see sense B.).See also East Germanic adj., North Germanic adj., West Germanic adj. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [adjective] > Indo-European > Germanic

Germanic1711

Teutonic1728

Tudesque1801

Teutonesque1840

Germanistic1848

1711 Mem. Lit. Jan. 170/1 That Opinion, says M. Leibnitz, would have some Probability, if the Inhabitants of the remotest Parts of Sweden spoke the Germanick Language.

1752 J. Jackson Chronol. Antiq. III. 205 The Remains of the dead Hebrew Language were mixed with Arabian, Persian, Syrian, Greek, Latin, Celtic, Gothic, and Germanic Words, a confused Mixture of all which makes the Rabbinical Hebrew language.

1791 tr. J. B. B. d'Anville Compend. Anc. Geogr. i. 106 In the Teutonic or Germanic language, Ger-man signifies a warrior.

1825 tr. A. Thierry Hist. Conquest Eng. by Normans I. ii. 161 The town of Bayeux alone, where the Danes who established themselves there found a population whose Saxon idiom bore a considerable affinity to that of the Scandinavians, preserved until a later period a language composed of two Germanic dialects, but still intelligible to the emigrated Danes.

1848 R. G. Latham in Rep. Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1847 261 This colossal work forms not only an epoch in the history of Germanic philology, but of ethnologic philology in general.

1888 J. Wright Old High-German Primer §70 The Germanic combination kw was represented in Franconian by qu, and in Upper German by chu.

1922 J. D. Spaeth Old Eng. Poetry 216 ‘Worm’ is the native Germanic word for dragon.

1948 Mod. Philol. 46 73 I shall not try to relate this meter to that of other Anglo-Saxon poetry or of the poetry in the other early Germanic dialects.

2008 T. Benes In Babel's Shadow iii. 149 The second Germanic sound shift divided Gothic speakers into High Germans, Low Germans, and Scandinavians.

3. Biology. Designating a biogeographical region of which Germany is considered to be the typical or centrally located representative, esp. a floristic region encompassing Central and Western Europe; belonging to such a region. Now historical and rare.

ΚΠ

1845 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 16 127 The distribution of the fifth, or Germanic flora, depended on the upheaval of the bed of the glacial sea.

1846 E. Forbes in Mem. Geol. Surv. I. 401 In the interspace thus produced, there appeared on land the general Germanic fauna and flora, and in the sea that fauna termed Celtic.

1856 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca iii. 383 Germanic Region. The whole of Northern Europe and Asia, bounded by the Pyrenees, Alps, Carpathians, Caucasus, and Altai.

1903 Trans. & Proc. Perthshire Soc. Nat. Sci. 1899–1903 3 67 Later on, by the same route, the Germanic Flora arrived on our eastern shores, and crowded out the Alpines.

1936 M. I. Newbigin Plant & Animal Geogr. 283 B) English and (c) Germanic seems largely one of habitat, members of the latter group being found mostly on dry sandy soils or near the coast.

B. n.

The branch of the Indo-European language family that includes English, German, Dutch, Frisian, and the Scandinavian languages; spec. the ancient unrecorded language from which these developed, thought to have been spoken on the shores of the Baltic Sea in the 3rd millennium b.c., primitive or proto-Germanic.See also East Germanic n., North Germanic n., West Germanic n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic

Germanic1718

Teutonic1728

Gothonic1922

1714 J. Fortescue-Aland in J. Fortescue Difference between Absolute & Limited Monarchy Pref. p.xxxii The Author, where he has no Latin, puts in his Franco-Germanick, of the Latin fashion.]

1718 I. Sharpe View Synodal Age 30 in Hist. Acct. Rise & Growth Heresie That all Books in the New Testament in all Languages, Greek, Latin, Germanick, &c. were corrupted.

1737 M. Shelton tr. W. Wotton Short View Hickes's Anc. Northern-lang. (ed. 2) 130 I have often observed that the Significations of Radicals are better known in the Germanic.

1813 Q. Rev. Oct. 273 Although it may be very proper to consider the Celtic and Germanic as families clearly distinct,..it does still appear..that the Germanic of that day did approach somewhat more nearly to the Celtic than any of its modern descendants now do.

1873 Proc. 21 May in Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. (1880) 10 App. p. lxvii The case begins in Greek to be a little different, and in Germanic still more so, with completest development in the most recent tongues.

1892 J. Wright Primer Gothic Lang. §108 From an Indo-Germanic point of view the series I–V belong to one and the same series which underwent in Germanic various modifications upon clearly defined lines.

1921 E. Sapir Lang. ix. 212 The peculiar, dull vowel..is entirely wanting in Germanic, Greek, Armenian, and Indo-Iranian.

1965 Eng. Stud. 46 420 In Germanic the basic principle is stress, together with a division into half-lines.

2007 J. E. Joseph in W. Ayres-Bennett & M. C. Jones French Lang. & Questions of Identity i. iv. 50 The fact that Strasbourg was the point of historical origin of the French language gave France a mammoth claim to intellectual–moral ownership of Alsace, transcending even the fact that Alsatians spoke Germanic.

Compounds

Germanic Confederation n. [after German Deutscher Bund (see German Confederation n. at German n. and adj. Compounds 1b)] now historical = German Confederation n. (b) at German n. and adj. Compounds 1b.

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society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > international agreements > [noun] > alliance or confederacy > an alliance > specific alliances

auld alliance1566

the League1589

armed neutrality1780

German Confederation1786

Germanic Confederation1815

Holy Alliance1823

the Concert of Europe1841

Sonderbund1847

Triplice1896

Soviet block1919

communist bloc1922

Eastern bloc1922

Soviet bloc1924

axis1936

Rome–Berlin Axis1936

Eastern block1938

communist block1941

Western European Union1944

Arab League1945

Western Union1948

Atlantic Pact1949

NATO1949

North Atlantic Treaty Organization1949

Seato1954

W.E.U.1954

Warsaw Pact1955

Atlantic Alliance1958

ASEAN1967

G201972

1815 Morning Chron. 10 Jan. 2/2 The Constitution of the Germanic Confederation cannot be organized in a manner more favourable to the general advantage, than by re-establishing the Imperial Dignity.

1866 Daily News 29 Oct. 6/4 The apportionment of the relations of property established by the former Germanic Confederation remains reserved for special agreement.

1997 E. D. Brose German Hist. 1789–1871 v. 87 The Burschenschaften quickly spread to..university towns in the Germanic Confederation.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	germanic
释义	Germanicadj.¹n. Brit. /dʒəˈmanɪk/, U.S. /dʒərˈmænɪk/ Forms: 1500s Germanik, 1600s Germanike, 1600s Germanique, 1600s–1700s Germanick, 1600s– Germanic. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French germanique; Latin Germānicus. Etymology: < (i) Middle French, French germanique, †germanicque of or relating to the German language (c1455), of or relating to Germany or the Germans (a1506), of or relating to the ancient Germanic peoples (1682 in the passage translated in quot. 1687 at sense A. 2a), (in philology) of or relating to the Germanic group of Indo-European languages (G. W. Leibniz 1704, or earlier), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin Germānicus of or relating to the ancient Germanic peoples and their languages, in post-classical Latin also of or relating to medieval and modern Germany or the Germans (8th cent.) and (in philology) to the Germanic group of languages (G. W. Leibniz 1710, in the source reviewed in quot. 1711 at sense A. 2b) < Germānus German adj. + -icus -ic suffix. Compare Hellenistic Greek Γερμανικός. Compare also German germanisch (1571 with reference to Germany; 18th cent. with reference to the Germanic group of languages).French germanique is uncommon in uses relating to medieval or modern Germany (for which the usual word is allemand : see Almain adj.), but is normally used with reference to the ancient Germanic peoples and to the Germanic group of languages. German germanisch is also usually used with reference to the ancient Germanic people and the Germanic group of languages; the usual adjective designating the medieval and modern people and language is deutsch (see Dutch adj. and compare the discussion at German n.). Compare also Teutonic adj. and the discussion at that entry. A. adj.¹ 1. a. Of or relating to Germany or the Germans, esp. before the First World War (1914–18).For Germany see German n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of Germany > [adjective] Germanic1539 German1548 Germanical1560 Almanie1564 Dutchkin1576 Teutonic1647 Almain1665 transrhenanea1727 Germanish1796 Hun1820 Dutchy1862 Kraut1911 Gretchen1913 Boche1914 Hunnish1915 Fritz1919 1539 J. Gough tr. J. Le Maire Abbreuyacyon Gen. Councellys sig. C.ii (heading) The councell Germanik [Fr. germanicque], holden in the tyme of Charlemayn the great. 1602 S. Patrick tr. J. de Hainault Estate of Church 455 The inuention [sc. printing] was Germanike [Fr. inuenté par vn Alemand], and very straunge at the beginning, and of great profit: Iohn Gutemberge Knight, was the first Author of this goodly inuention. 1633 in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times Charles I (1848) (modernized text) II. 214 Setting up the Germanic liberty, and levelling of the House of Austria. 1652 E. Benlowes Theophila v. xlix. 73 Fifty Milions of Germanick Leagues. 1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. IV. 55 The association of the Germanic states would not be a sufficient security to the empire against a foreign enemy. 1777 R. Watson Hist. Reign Philip II I. ii. 19 He laboured..to establish concord among the several princes of the Germanic body. 1804 Universal Mag. June 628/2 The circumstance, doubtless, was a sufficient pretext for war, if the Germanic body had been prepared to enter into one. 1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany III. 251 Least of all could the German nation boast that the Germanic empire had recovered its ancient character and powers. 1903 Columbia Law Rev. 3 510 Another point of Germanic procedure must seem very strange to learned persons bred in the civilian tradition... Namely, the parties before the court are wholly answerable for the conduct of their own cases. 1945 H. Seton-Watson Eastern Europe between Wars (1946) vii. 268 Their distribution was modified by the pressure of the Germanic Empire and the Venetian Republic from the west, and of the Ottoman Turks from the east. 1973 L. Meynell Thirteen Trumpeters v. 80 I'm in grave danger of becoming virtuous. To see those acres of fat Germanic flesh spread out by the pool is enough to put me off for life. 2002 Sawubona (S. Afr. Airways In-flight Mag.) Sept. 22/1 Knodeln (dumplings) are big in Germanic kitchens. b. Having characteristics or qualities attributed to Germans; regarded as typically German. ΚΠ 1798 Monthly Mag. July 41/2 His [sc. Friedrich Nicolai's] ‘Sebaldus Nothanker’, relished in Germany for presenting pictures of their former manners, is, in our country, sufficiently prolix and Germanic, not to give pleasure to the reader of taste. 1819 M. Wilmot Let. 3 Sept. in E. Londonderry More Lett. (1935) 13 Our journey by this time was growing very Germanic—our dinners often good, but sometimes Venison steeped many days in Vinegar. 1867 M. Arnold On Study Celtic Lit. 96 I say that there is a Celtic element in the English nature, as well as a Germanic element, and that this element manifests itself in our spirit and literature. 1940 P. Sturges Lady Eve in Five Screenplays (1986) 501 Mr. Pike's office—in the Bridgefield Brewing Company... This is somewhat oaky and Germanic and suggests the lair of a beer baron. 1984 C. Wilson Lord of Underworld 15 The style of his books is Germanic and obscure. 2009 I. Thomson Dead Yard xxii. 297 Some of their houses..have a Germanic aspect. 2. a. Of or relating to the peoples of ancient northern and western Europe who spoke Germanic (see sense B.) or their descendants. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > Germanic people > [adjective] Teutonic1619 Gothic1647 Germanic1687 pan-Germanic1850 pan-German1862 pan-Teutonic1863 pan-Gothic1879 Gothonic1912 1687 tr. J. Spon Hist. Geneva 213 Caracalla was Sirnamed when he held the sixteenth time the Office of Tribune, Germanick [Fr. Germanique] and Britannick. 1696 A. Gavin tr. J. Dubourdieu Hist. Diss. Thebean Legion xii. 78 Now and then they took their Names from the Countries and Frontiers that were committed to their charge, as the Germanick [Fr. Germaniques], and the Pannonick Legions, appointed to Guard the Empire in Hungary and Germany. 1722 Mem. Lit. (ed. 2) II. 228 For 'tis well known that these Words, King, Konig, Chagan, Can, denote, or denoted, a Monarch, a Great Man, among all the Germanick Nations. 1774 R. Henry Hist. Great Brit. II. iii. 215 But though these Germanic nations differed very much from one another..yet they appear to have sprung from the same origin. 1801 R. Patton Princ. Asiatic Monarchies v. 320 Even the Germanic constitution, of whose previous existence there is ample testimony in the codes of the barbarians, is best explained from the capitularies of his [sc. Charlemagne's] reign. 1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands II. 26 The Roman empire during the Germanic invasions. a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) I. 6 [Gothic] is the architecture of the Germanic nations. 1909 F. B. Gummere Oldest Eng. Epic p. viii These two poems [sc. Deor and Widsith]..contain many references to persons and stories of Germanic heroic legends. 1928 W. W. Lawrence Beowulf & Epic Trad. 4 Anglo-Saxon verse..was..rooted in the traditions of professional singers, the main features of whose craft were shared by the poets of the other peoples of Germanic stock. 1963 R. W. V. Elliott in S. B. Greenfield Stud. in Honor of A. G. Brodeur 64 Originality of invention was not the Germanic scop's aim. 2007 L. E. Mitchell Family Life in Middle Ages i. i. 22 Germanic culture was agrarian, not urban, and did not share in the Roman obsession for complex administrative systems and hierarchies. b. Designating, of, or relating to the Indo-European language of the Germanic peoples, spec. the ancient unrecorded language from which modern forms developed (see sense B.).See also East Germanic adj., North Germanic adj., West Germanic adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [adjective] > Indo-European > Germanic Germanic1711 Teutonic1728 Tudesque1801 Teutonesque1840 Germanistic1848 1711 Mem. Lit. Jan. 170/1 That Opinion, says M. Leibnitz, would have some Probability, if the Inhabitants of the remotest Parts of Sweden spoke the Germanick Language. 1752 J. Jackson Chronol. Antiq. III. 205 The Remains of the dead Hebrew Language were mixed with Arabian, Persian, Syrian, Greek, Latin, Celtic, Gothic, and Germanic Words, a confused Mixture of all which makes the Rabbinical Hebrew language. 1791 tr. J. B. B. d'Anville Compend. Anc. Geogr. i. 106 In the Teutonic or Germanic language, Ger-man signifies a warrior. 1825 tr. A. Thierry Hist. Conquest Eng. by Normans I. ii. 161 The town of Bayeux alone, where the Danes who established themselves there found a population whose Saxon idiom bore a considerable affinity to that of the Scandinavians, preserved until a later period a language composed of two Germanic dialects, but still intelligible to the emigrated Danes. 1848 R. G. Latham in Rep. Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1847 261 This colossal work forms not only an epoch in the history of Germanic philology, but of ethnologic philology in general. 1888 J. Wright Old High-German Primer §70 The Germanic combination kw was represented in Franconian by qu, and in Upper German by chu. 1922 J. D. Spaeth Old Eng. Poetry 216 ‘Worm’ is the native Germanic word for dragon. 1948 Mod. Philol. 46 73 I shall not try to relate this meter to that of other Anglo-Saxon poetry or of the poetry in the other early Germanic dialects. 2008 T. Benes In Babel's Shadow iii. 149 The second Germanic sound shift divided Gothic speakers into High Germans, Low Germans, and Scandinavians. 3. Biology. Designating a biogeographical region of which Germany is considered to be the typical or centrally located representative, esp. a floristic region encompassing Central and Western Europe; belonging to such a region. Now historical and rare. ΚΠ 1845 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 16 127 The distribution of the fifth, or Germanic flora, depended on the upheaval of the bed of the glacial sea. 1846 E. Forbes in Mem. Geol. Surv. I. 401 In the interspace thus produced, there appeared on land the general Germanic fauna and flora, and in the sea that fauna termed Celtic. 1856 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca iii. 383 Germanic Region. The whole of Northern Europe and Asia, bounded by the Pyrenees, Alps, Carpathians, Caucasus, and Altai. 1903 Trans. & Proc. Perthshire Soc. Nat. Sci. 1899–1903 3 67 Later on, by the same route, the Germanic Flora arrived on our eastern shores, and crowded out the Alpines. 1936 M. I. Newbigin Plant & Animal Geogr. 283 B) English and (c) Germanic seems largely one of habitat, members of the latter group being found mostly on dry sandy soils or near the coast. B. n. The branch of the Indo-European language family that includes English, German, Dutch, Frisian, and the Scandinavian languages; spec. the ancient unrecorded language from which these developed, thought to have been spoken on the shores of the Baltic Sea in the 3rd millennium b.c., primitive or proto-Germanic.See also East Germanic n., North Germanic n., West Germanic n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic Germanic1718 Teutonic1728 Gothonic1922 1714 J. Fortescue-Aland in J. Fortescue Difference between Absolute & Limited Monarchy Pref. p.xxxii The Author, where he has no Latin, puts in his Franco-Germanick, of the Latin fashion.] 1718 I. Sharpe View Synodal Age 30 in Hist. Acct. Rise & Growth Heresie That all Books in the New Testament in all Languages, Greek, Latin, Germanick, &c. were corrupted. 1737 M. Shelton tr. W. Wotton Short View Hickes's Anc. Northern-lang. (ed. 2) 130 I have often observed that the Significations of Radicals are better known in the Germanic. 1813 Q. Rev. Oct. 273 Although it may be very proper to consider the Celtic and Germanic as families clearly distinct,..it does still appear..that the Germanic of that day did approach somewhat more nearly to the Celtic than any of its modern descendants now do. 1873 Proc. 21 May in Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. (1880) 10 App. p. lxvii The case begins in Greek to be a little different, and in Germanic still more so, with completest development in the most recent tongues. 1892 J. Wright Primer Gothic Lang. §108 From an Indo-Germanic point of view the series I–V belong to one and the same series which underwent in Germanic various modifications upon clearly defined lines. 1921 E. Sapir Lang. ix. 212 The peculiar, dull vowel..is entirely wanting in Germanic, Greek, Armenian, and Indo-Iranian. 1965 Eng. Stud. 46 420 In Germanic the basic principle is stress, together with a division into half-lines. 2007 J. E. Joseph in W. Ayres-Bennett & M. C. Jones French Lang. & Questions of Identity i. iv. 50 The fact that Strasbourg was the point of historical origin of the French language gave France a mammoth claim to intellectual–moral ownership of Alsace, transcending even the fact that Alsatians spoke Germanic. Compounds Germanic Confederation n. [after German Deutscher Bund (see German Confederation n. at German n. and adj. Compounds 1b)] now historical = German Confederation n. (b) at German n. and adj. Compounds 1b. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > international agreements > [noun] > alliance or confederacy > an alliance > specific alliances auld alliance1566 the League1589 armed neutrality1780 German Confederation1786 Germanic Confederation1815 Holy Alliance1823 the Concert of Europe1841 Sonderbund1847 Triplice1896 Soviet block1919 communist bloc1922 Eastern bloc1922 Soviet bloc1924 axis1936 Rome–Berlin Axis1936 Eastern block1938 communist block1941 Western European Union1944 Arab League1945 Western Union1948 Atlantic Pact1949 NATO1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization1949 Seato1954 W.E.U.1954 Warsaw Pact1955 Atlantic Alliance1958 ASEAN1967 G201972 1815 Morning Chron. 10 Jan. 2/2 The Constitution of the Germanic Confederation cannot be organized in a manner more favourable to the general advantage, than by re-establishing the Imperial Dignity. 1866 Daily News 29 Oct. 6/4 The apportionment of the relations of property established by the former Germanic Confederation remains reserved for special agreement. 1997 E. D. Brose German Hist. 1789–1871 v. 87 The Burschenschaften quickly spread to..university towns in the Germanic Confederation. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). germanicadj.² Brit. /dʒəˈmanɪk/, U.S. /dʒərˈmænɪk/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: germanium n., -ic suffix. Etymology: < german- (in germanium n.) + -ic suffix. Chemistry. Of or containing germanium in the quadrivalent state. ΚΠ 1886 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 50 986 Germanium dioxide (germanic acid?), GeO₂, is formed when germanium is burned in oxygen. 1919 G. Senter Text-bk. Inorg. Chem. (ed. 2) xxxi. 493 Germanous sulphide, GeS, is obtained by heating a mixture of germanic sulphide, GeS₂ and germanium in a current of carbon dioxide. 1966 Kirk-Othmer Encycl. Chem. Technol. (ed. 2) X. 522 Ionic germanic salts of the common inorganic oxy-acids..are not known. 2006 Earth & Planetary Sci. Lett. 243 760/2 The dominant inorganic species are germanic and silicic acids (Ge(OH)₄ and Si(OH)₄, respectively), which have similar dissociation constants. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.¹n.1539adj.²1886
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