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.

ΘΚΠ

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.

ΘΚΠ

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.

ΘΚΠ

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.

ΘΚΠ

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.

ΘΚΠ

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. K4^v 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.

ΘΚΠ

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.]

ΘΚΠ

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.]

ΚΠ

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).

ΘΚΠ

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.

ΘΠ

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).

单词	attic
释义	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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. K4^v 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. ΘΚΠ 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.] ΘΚΠ 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.] ΚΠ 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). ΘΚΠ 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. Draft additions December 2022 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. ΘΠ 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). < n.²1696adj.n.¹1599
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Atticadj.n.¹