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单词 attic
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atticn.2

Brit. /ˈatɪk/, U.S. /ˈædɪk/
Etymology: < French Attique, < Latin Atticus : see Attic adj. Originally adjective.
1. A decorative structure, consisting of a small order (column and entablature) placed above another order of much greater height constituting the main façade. This was usually an Attic order, with pilasters instead of pillars; whence the name.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > pillar > [noun] > square > specific > structure consisting of
attic1696
1676 A. Félibien Des Principes de l'Architecture 481 Nous appellons aussi Attique dans nos bastimens un ordre que l'on met sur un autre beaucoup plus grand..Ce petit ordre n'a ordinairement que des Pilastres d'une façon particuliere, qui est à la maniere Attique dont le nom luy a esté donné.]
1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Attick, we call Attick in our Buildings a little Order plac'd upon another much greater: for that, instead of Pillars, this Order has nothing but Pilasters of a particular Fashion and Order which is call'd Attick. [not in ed. 1678.]
1761 M. Raper in Philos. Trans. 1760 (Royal Soc.) 51 804 The height of the attic [in the Pantheon] above the cornice it stands upon, is 27 feet 2¾ inches.
1874 J. Fergusson St. Paul's in Contemp. Rev. Oct. 750 The introduction of an Attic over the main Order.
2. attributive quasi-adj. in attic storey: originally the space enclosed by the structure described in preceding sense; hence, the top storey of a building, under the beams of the roof, when there are more than two storeys above ground. So attic-floor, attic-room, etc.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > [noun] > floor or storey > upper floors
first floor1445
plancher1523
first storey1686
piano nobile1715
mezzaninec1720
entresol1726
attic storey1738
upstairs1781
attic1818
second floor1821
third floor1908
upper1968
1738 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 2) I. 82 The Attick Story is 12 Feet high, and the Rustick Story the same.
1770 Philos. Trans. 1769 (Royal Soc.) 59 72 They have no Attic story, only ware-houses, and one floor over them.
1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. iii. 7/1 The attic floor of the highest house.
3. The highest storey of a house, or a room in it; a garret. Humorously, the ‘upper storey,’ the brain.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > [noun] > floor or storey > upper floors
first floor1445
plancher1523
first storey1686
piano nobile1715
mezzaninec1720
entresol1726
attic storey1738
upstairs1781
attic1818
second floor1821
third floor1908
upper1968
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > types of room by situation > [noun] > upper room or loft
sollarc897
roostOE
loftc1385
cellara1400
roofc1405
garret1483
solier1483
hall of stage1485
coploft1571
cockloftc1580
tallet1586
cotloft1642
chamber1644
kitchen loft1648
vance-roof1655
sky-parlour1777
attic1818
soleret1851
overhead1949
dormer room1951
1818 Ld. Byron Beppo xxv. 13 His wife would mount, at times, her highest attic.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 464 Betaking himself with his books to a small lodging in an attic.
1870 H. Alford 18 Dec. in Life, Jrnls. & Lett. (1873) xii. 467 Tolerably well all day, but the noise in the attic unremoved.
4. Anatomy. The upper part of the tympanum of the ear.
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the world > life > the body > sense organ > hearing organ > parts of hearing organ > [noun] > ear-drum > parts of
drumhead1615
umbo1877
attic1889
1889 J. Leidy Elem. Treat. Human Anat. (ed. 2) xvi. 893 The attic of the tympanum is a pyramidal cavity above the atrium with which it communicates by a horizontal, fore and aft oval aperture.
1891 Med. Ann. 159 Pathological Changes in the External ‘Attic’ of the Tympanic Cavity.
1900 W. A. N. Dorland Amer. Illustr. Med. Dict. 87/1 Attic, the part of the tympanum that is situated above the atrium.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online September 2022).

Atticadj.n.1

Brit. /ˈatɪk/, U.S. /ˈædɪk/
Forms: 1500s–1600s Attick, 1500s–1600s Atticke, 1500s–1600s Attique, 1500s– Attic.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin Atticus.
Etymology: < classical Latin Atticus (adjective) of Attica, Athenian, belonging to the Attic style or tradition, classic, (noun) native of Attica, Athenian, orator using the Attic style < ancient Greek Ἀττικός (adjective) of Attica, Athenian.Compare Middle French, French attique (adjective) of Attica, Greek (15th cent.), (noun) dialect of Greek spoken in Attica (1605), Italian àttico (16th cent.), Spanish atico (16th cent.), Portuguese ático (15th cent.), German attisch (16th cent.). With use as noun compare also Hellenistic Greek Ἀττικόν (neuter) Attic style (Plutarch; compare quot. 1603 at Additions).
A. adj.
1. Of or pertaining to Attica, or to its capital Athens; Athenian. Formerly = Greek.
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > Greece > [adjective]
Locrian1559
Achaean1567
Argive1598
Attic1599
the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > Greece > [adjective] > regions of Greece
Macedonc1450
Olympian1523
Ionian?1556
Macedonian1556
Achaean1567
Peloponnesian1569
Molossian1587
Thessalian1594
Thracian1594
Olympic1597
Argive1598
Attic1599
isthmian1603
Pharsalian1605
Aonian1607
Attical1610
Phocian1614
Messenianc1615
Marathonian1623
Bœotic1851
Athoan1869
Thraco-Illyrian1931
Athonite1963
the world > the earth > named regions of earth > named cities or towns > [adjective] > in Greece > Athens
Attic1599
Athenian1600
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > column > [adjective] > classical orders > with square column
Attic1599
1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered Concl. 46 You..that arrogate to your selfe the Attick Science [i.e. knowledge of Greek.]
1607 T. Dekker Knights Conjuring sig. K4v No Attick eloquence is so sweete.
1836 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece III. xviii A wooden theatre still sufficed for the Attic drama.
2. Having characteristics peculiarly Athenian; hence, of literary style, etc.: Marked by simple and refined elegance, pure, classical. Attic salt or Attic wit [after classical Latin sal Atticum; compare French sel attique (1668)] : refined, delicate, poignant wit. Attic faith [after classical Latin Attica fidēs; compare French foi attique (1662 or earlier)] : inviolable faith.
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > [noun] > particular kinds of wit
bavin wits1598
Attic salt1633
water-wit1658
Latin-wit1670
sheer wit1672
sea-wit1695
razor wit1786
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > elegance > [adjective]
fairOE
facundc1381
rhetorian?c1400
facundious1430
rhetoricalc1450
elegantc1475
rhetorial1521
concinnate1548
humane1552
concinne1569
Attic1633
compt1633
concinnated1868
stylish1892
Atticistic1919
1633 Battle of Lutzen in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) IV. 185 Written in a stile so attick..that it may well be called the French Tacitus.
1738 A. Pope One Thousand Seven Hundred & Thirty Eight Dialogue II 7 While Roman Spirit charms, and Attic Wit.
1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy V. iii. 27 Triumph swam in my father's eyes, at the repartee—the Attic salt brought water into them.
1830 T. Hamilton Cyril Thornton (1845) 49 The true attic pronunciation inculcated in Mrs. Blenkinsop's academy.
1864 M. Arnold in Cornhill Mag. Aug. 164 Well, but Addison's prose is Attic prose.
3. Attic base [compare French base attiqiue (1645), Italian basa attica (1570)] in Architecture: a base used for Ionic, Corinthian, and occasionally for Doric columns, consisting of an upper and lower torus divided by a scotia and two fillets. Attic order [compare French ordre attiqiue (1610)] : a square column of any of the five orders. [Compare also Middle French, French colonne attiqiue (1567), classical Latin Attica columna Attic column.]
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > column > [adjective] > having specific base
Attic base1728
baseless1748
surbased1791
1563 J. Shute First Groundes Archit. sig. Eiiii That piller which Vitruuius nameth Atticurga or Attica.]
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxvi. xxiii. 595 Pillars..of the Atticke fashion [Fr. faites à l'Athenienne; L. Atticae columnae]..be made with foure corners, and the sides are equall.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The Attic is the most beautiful of all the Bases.
1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 493 The base is attic, as it is in most of the Roman antiques.
4. Linguistics. Attic reduplication: a form of reduplication (reduplication n. 2b) as exemplified in ancient Greek ἀκήκοα from ἀκουω, ἤγαγον from ἄγω. [After Hellenistic Greek Ἀττικὸς ἀναδιπλασιασμός, although not in fact restricted to Attic Greek.]
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1833 J. G. Tiarks Conjugation of Greek Verb i. 8 In verbs beginning with a vowel, the first syllable is sometimes repeated before the temporal augment in the perf., which is called the Attic reduplication.
B. n.1
A native of Attica, an Athenian (author).
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of ancient or medieval Europe > ancient Greeks and neighbours > [noun] > native or inhabitant of states, regions, or cities
Thebienc1374
Spartiatec1384
myrmidonc1425
Spartanc1425
Phocianc1487
Argive?1532
Locrian1536
Locrensian1542
Achaean1550
Mantinean1550
Mytilenean1550
Tegeate1584
Pylian1585
Epidaurian?1589
Thessalian1608
Olympian1609
Sicyonian1642
Samothracian1653
Dorian1662
Attic1699
Tegean1709
1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 390 A time, when the Attics were as unlearned as their Neighbours.

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Ancient History. The dialect of Greek spoken in Athens, a subdialect of Ionic.Considered the most prestigious form of the literary language during the classical period; cf. classical Greek n.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Greek > Greek dialects
common dialect1604
Aeolic1606
Ionic1606
Ionic dialect1629
Athenian1638
Theban1820
Laconian1830
Doric1837
Rumelian1859
Pamphylian1880
Tsakonian1902
Pontic1910
Thessalian1910
koine1913
Messenian1928
Macedonian1933
Mycenaean1955
1603 P. Holland in tr. Plutarch Morals Explan. Tearmes sig. Aaaaaa/1 Those who being Athenians borne, and dwelling in Soli.., spake not pure Attick, but mixt with the Solians language.
1697 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris 41 His Language is Attic, the beloved Dialect of the Sophists.
1884 F. De F. Allen Hadley's Greek Gram. (rev. ed.) §37 (note) The Ionic..has uncontracted forms in very many cases where the Attic contracts.
1975 K. Katzner Langs. of World ii. 106 With the rise of Athens.., a dialect of Ionic known as Attic began to produce the great literature of the classical period. Attic became the dominant form of the language and the basis of the Koine, or common language, whose use passed far beyond the borders of present-day Greece.
2011 R. U. Smith Gloss. Terms for Readers of Greek & Lat. i. 6 Attic is taught as the usual introduction to Greek because many of the greatest works of Greek literature are in that dialect.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2022).
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