单词 | irish-born |
释义 | > as lemmasIrish-born Irish-born adj. born in Ireland; (in quot. 1682) born in the Scottish Highlands (cf. sense A. 1b). [In quot. 1682 after post-classical Latin Erigena , variant of Eriugena (9th cent.; chosen byname of the 9th-cent. Irish theologian Johannes Scotus (whom the translator confuses with the 13th-cent. Scottish theologian John Duns Scotus)); < Early Irish Ériu , the name of Ireland + classical Latin -gena ( < gen- , base of gignere to beget (see genital adj.) + -a -a suffix1).] ΚΠ 1682 R. Westcot in tr. J. Selden Reverse Eng. Janus Notes 114 But Scotus or Scot, is the name of his Countrey, he being a Scotch-man, and for that reason called also Erigena, that is, Irish born, to wit, a Highlander. 1813 M. O'Conor Hist. Irish Catholics 243 This sentence of perpetual banishment deeply affected the Irish-born officers and soldiers of the brigade. 1829 Times 26 May 4/5 He and his wife were Irish born. 1902 Irish Eccl. Rec. May 398 I have heard some Irish-born priests express the same conviction in language much more emphatic and rather less flattering to Ireland. 1993 Sci. Amer. Aug. 62/2 The Irish-born physicist William Hamilton and the German mathematician Karl Jacobi. < as lemmas |
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