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单词 ligurian
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Ligurianadj.n.

Brit. /lᵻˈɡjʊərɪən/, /lʌɪˈɡjʊərɪən/, U.S. /ləˈɡ(j)ʊriən/
Etymology: < Latin Liguria ( < Ligur-, nominative Ligur, Ligus = Greek Λίγυς, plural Λίγυες Ligurian) + -an suffix.
A. adj.
Belonging to the country anciently called Liguria in Cisalpine Gaul, including Genoa, parts of Piedmont and Savoy, etc. Now sometimes used by ethnologists as the distinctive epithet of a race of humankind supposed to be typically represented by the ancient Ligurians or their modern descendants.
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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > other racial types > [adjective]
Ligurian1632
Mediterranean1876
Eurafrican1890
Alpine1894
Armenoid1894
Nordic1898
Eurasiatic1901
Veddoid1956
the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > Italy > [adjective] > ancient parts
Tyrrhenea1387
Latinc1400
Albana1522
Latian1598
Picene1600
Picenian1619
Ligurian1632
Praenestine1683
Tyrrhenian1797
Picentine1888
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. i. 11 [I am] vnwilling to make relation of my passing through..the Sauoyean, and Ligurian Alpes.
1889 I. Taylor Origin Aryans 214 The primitive Aryans must be sought for among the four European races—Scandinavian, Celtic, Ligurian, and Iberian.
B. n.
1. An inhabitant or native of Liguria; a person belonging to the Ligurian race; also, a Ligurian bee.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Italians > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Italy > parts of
Lombard1377
Etrurian1546
Etruscan1563
Ligurian1601
Umbrian1601
Apulian1607
Calabrian1615
Tuscana1640
Piedmontese1647
Romagnese1762
Romagnol1768
Romagnan1832
Romagnola1845
Emilian1893
transpadane1896
Friulian1959
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 57 Of the Ligurians, the most renowned beyond the Alpes, are the Sallij, Deceates, and Oxubij.
1795 W. Gifford Mæviad 324 Together we explored the stoic page Of the Ligurian, stern tho' beardless sage [sc. Persius].
1797 Encycl. Brit. X. 72/2 There is a great disagreement among authors concerning the origin of the Ligurians, though most probably they were descended from the Gauls.
2. The Indo-European language of the ancient Ligurians; the Gallo-Italian dialect of this region
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > postulated Italo-Celtic > pre-Italic
Rhaetiana1832
Ligurian1835
Iapygian1882
Messapian1882
Venetic1903
Rhaetic1933
Picenian1939
Sicel1939
Picene1949
the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > postulated Italo-Celtic > Romance > Italian > varieties of
courtesan1549
Roman1561
Tuscan1568
Lombard1598
Neapolitan1598
Venetian1598
Lucchese1642
Milanese1642
Piedmontese1642
Romanesco1792
Sicilian1818
Ligurian1835
Bolognese1839
Corsican1855
Florentine1855
Veronese1872
Emilian1878
Romanaccio1963
Torinese1975
1835 G. C. Lewis Ess. Romance Lang. i. 50 The diffusion of the Latin over Italy, in the place of the Etruscan, the Oscan, the Ligurian, and other native dialects, has been already noted.
1888 J. E. King & C. Cookson Princ. Sound & Inflexion Greek & Lat. 30 Of the Iapygian in the extreme south and the Ligurian in the north, very little is known.
1909 Trans. Amer. Philol. Assoc. XL. 81 The net result of the study is that by far the greater part of what is called Ligurian is strictly Gallic.
1927 C. H. Grandgent From Lat. to Ital. 6 In the northwest of Italy we find the Piedmontese dialect, and, to the south, along the Gulf of Genoa from Monaco to Carrara, the Ligurian.
1933 R. S. Conway et al. Prae-Italic Dial. Italy II. ii. 70 Of Ligurian properly so called very little can be said to be known.
1939 L. H. Gray Found. Lang. xi. 335 In the general area of Lago Maggiore, some seventy-two inscriptions..have been discovered... Their language may well represent the sole known remnants of Ligurian, which would seem to have stood midway between Italic and Celtic.
1968 Encycl. Brit. XII. 711/2 The dialects may be divided into six major classes: 1. Gallo-Italian: (a) Piedmontese; (b) Ligurian; (c) Lombard; (d) Emilian [etc.].
1974 R. A. Hall External Hist. Romance Lang. iii. 51 Ligurian, used along what is now the Italian and French Riveria [sic], and perhaps to the north of this area in present-day Piedmont and Savoy.
3. = Ligurian bee n. at Compounds.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > superfamily Apoidea (bees) > member of family Apidae (honey-bee) > apis ligustrica
Ligurian1875
Ligurian bee1875
1875 J. Hunter Man. Bee-keeping 141 The name ‘Ligurian’ appears to have been given by Spinola, who described it in 1805.
1875 J. Hunter Man. Bee-keeping 143 Many Bee-keepers..have successfully replaced their Black Queens with Ligurians, and so eventually succeeded in Ligurianizing their whole apiary.

Compounds

Ligurian bee n. a kind of honey-bee, Apis ligustrica, indigenous in southern Europe.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > superfamily Apoidea (bees) > member of family Apidae (honey-bee) > apis ligustrica
Ligurian1875
Ligurian bee1875
1875 J. Hunter Man. Bee-keeping 141 (heading) Ligurian bees and the methods of Ligurianizing an apiary.
1875 J. Hunter Man. Bee-keeping 141 On the 19th of July, 1859, the Ligurian Bee was introduced to England.
Ligurian republic n. the republic of Genoa, 1797–1805.
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1813 R. Southey Life Nelson vi About seventy sail of vessels belonging to the Ligurian republic.
1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands III. 54 It is best exemplified by the constitution of the Italian Republic, which was closely copied in the Ligurian.

Derivatives

Liˈgurianize v. (transitive) to make (a colony of bees) Ligurian.
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18751 [see Ligurian bee n. at Compounds].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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