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单词 leucadian
释义

Leucadiann.adj.

/l(j)uːˈkeɪdɪən/
Etymology: < Leucadia (see below) + -ian suffix.
A. n.
A native or inhabitant of Leucadia or Leucas, an island in the Ionian Sea.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Greeks > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Greece > Greek islands
Rhodianc1450
Naxianc1487
Candian1549
Melian1550
Parian1550
Sciote1553
Cretan1579
Samian1579
Leucadian1615
Sciana1641
Siphnian1709
Septinsular1807
Ionian1816
Corfiote1835
Naxiote1859
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey i. 4 It was a custome amongst the Leucadians in their yearely solemnities, as a propitiatory sacrifice to Apollo, to throw some one from the top, condemned before for his offences.
1890 J. G. Frazer Golden Bough II. iii. 213 From the Lover's Leap, a white bluff at the southern end of their island, the Leucadians used annually to hurl a criminal into the sea as a scapegoat.
B. adj.
Of or pertaining to Leucadia.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > Greece > [adjective] > Greek islands
Ionic1483
Rhodiana1533
Candian1559
lesbian1559
Cretan1579
Ionian1579
Ortygian1582
Parianc1602
Lemnian1611
Carpathian1637
lesbic1659
Eubœan1660
Melian1684
Sciote1718
Minoan1830
Naxiote1859
Corfiote1877
Knossian1894
Siphnian1895
Cycladic1915
Leucadian1952
1952 R. Campbell tr. C. Baudelaire Poems 181 Since then I watch on the Leucadian height.
1968 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 998/2 It was from the extremity..of this cape that in ancient times the ‘Leucadian leap’ was made, an ordeal whereby at the feast of Apollo accused persons were tried, those who survived the leap being picked up by boat.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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