Athenianadj.n.

Brit.

/əˈθiːnɪən/, U.S.

/əˈθiniən/

Forms: Also 1500s Attenian.

Etymology: < Latin Athēniensis adjective and noun (whence Old English Athēniense noun plural, the Athenians), < Latin Athēnae , Greek Ἀθῆναι Athens + -ian suffix; compare Greek Ἀθηναῖος Athenian.

A. adj.

Of or pertaining to Athens, the leading city of ancient Greece, now the capital of Greece. Cf. Attic adj. and n.¹ Also transferred and figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > named regions of earth > named cities or towns > [adjective] > in Greece > Athens

Attic1599

Athenian1600

1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream i. i. 12 Stirre vp the Athenian youth to merriments.

1673 J. Milton On Death Fair Infant ii, in Poems (new ed.) 17 Aquilo his charioter By boistrous rape th' Athenian damsel got.

1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1729 I. 32 For an Athenian blockhead is the worst of all blockheads.

a1822 P. B. Shelley Homer's Hymn to Minerva 2 in Poet. Wks. (1907) 694 Athenian Pallas! tameless, chaste, and wise.

1840 Lytton Let. in C. H. Shattuck Bulwer & Macready (1958) 157 The Scotch of Macfinch &c had better be looked over by one more learned than I am in that Athenian tongue.

1851 R. W. Browne Hist. Classical Lit. II. xiv. 121 The Greek orator, or rather..the Athenian orator, for oratory flourished only in Athens, composed..his speech in private, before he delivered it.

1953 D. F. Pocock tr. E. Durkheim Sociol. & Philos. ii. 57 The Roman or the Athenian ideals were closely related to the particular organizations of these two cities.

B. n.

A native or inhabitant of Athens; also (see quot. 1638) the speech of this people.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Greeks > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Greece > parts of

Peloponnesianc1487

Athenian1526

Messenian?1529

Marathonian1797

Suliote1812

Moreot1838

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

c893 tr. Orosius Hist. 78/22 Sona swa Atheniense wiston.

c1487 J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica i. 40 The Athenyensis conferme this oppynyon.]

1526 Bible (Tyndale) Acts xvii. 21 All the Attenians an straungers whych were there gave them selves to nothynge els but other to tell or to heare newe tydynges.

1539 Bible (Great) Acts xvii. 21 All the Athenians & straungers which were there.

1550 T. Nicolls tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War (title) The hystory writtone by Thucidides the Athenyan.

1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iv. ii. 27 If I tell you, I am not true Athenian .

1638 R. Brathwait Barnabees Journall (new ed.) i. sig. B5 To Oxford came I... Each thing ther's the Muses Minion, Queenes College-Horn speakes pure Athenian.

1643 J. Taylor Let. sent to London 13 I would have gone to a fellow that conjures with a paire of sheares and a Sieve, sure that grave Athenian would have told me all.

1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall VI. lxii. 255 The Athenians are still distinguished by the subtlety and acuteness of their understandings.

1877 L. H. Morgan Anc. Society ii. xiv. 349 Bachoven has collected and discussed the evidence of female authority..among the..Athenians.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	athenian
释义	Athenianadj.n. Brit. /əˈθiːnɪən/, U.S. /əˈθiniən/ Forms: Also 1500s Attenian. Etymology: < Latin Athēniensis adjective and noun (whence Old English Athēniense noun plural, the Athenians), < Latin Athēnae , Greek Ἀθῆναι Athens + -ian suffix; compare Greek Ἀθηναῖος Athenian. A. adj. Of or pertaining to Athens, the leading city of ancient Greece, now the capital of Greece. Cf. Attic adj. and n.¹ Also transferred and figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > named cities or towns > [adjective] > in Greece > Athens Attic1599 Athenian1600 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream i. i. 12 Stirre vp the Athenian youth to merriments. View more context for this quotation 1673 J. Milton On Death Fair Infant ii, in Poems (new ed.) 17 Aquilo his charioter By boistrous rape th' Athenian damsel got. 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1729 I. 32 For an Athenian blockhead is the worst of all blockheads. a1822 P. B. Shelley Homer's Hymn to Minerva 2 in Poet. Wks. (1907) 694 Athenian Pallas! tameless, chaste, and wise. 1840 Lytton Let. in C. H. Shattuck Bulwer & Macready (1958) 157 The Scotch of Macfinch &c had better be looked over by one more learned than I am in that Athenian tongue. 1851 R. W. Browne Hist. Classical Lit. II. xiv. 121 The Greek orator, or rather..the Athenian orator, for oratory flourished only in Athens, composed..his speech in private, before he delivered it. 1953 D. F. Pocock tr. E. Durkheim Sociol. & Philos. ii. 57 The Roman or the Athenian ideals were closely related to the particular organizations of these two cities. B. n. A native or inhabitant of Athens; also (see quot. 1638) the speech of this people. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Greeks > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Greece > parts of Peloponnesianc1487 Athenian1526 Messenian?1529 Marathonian1797 Suliote1812 Moreot1838 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 c893 tr. Orosius Hist. 78/22 Sona swa Atheniense wiston. c1487 J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica i. 40 The Athenyensis conferme this oppynyon.] 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Acts xvii. 21 All the Attenians an straungers whych were there gave them selves to nothynge els but other to tell or to heare newe tydynges. 1539 Bible (Great) Acts xvii. 21 All the Athenians & straungers which were there. 1550 T. Nicolls tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War (title) The hystory writtone by Thucidides the Athenyan. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iv. ii. 27 If I tell you, I am not true Athenian . View more context for this quotation 1638 R. Brathwait Barnabees Journall (new ed.) i. sig. B5 To Oxford came I... Each thing ther's the Muses Minion, Queenes College-Horn speakes pure Athenian. 1643 J. Taylor Let. sent to London 13 I would have gone to a fellow that conjures with a paire of sheares and a Sieve, sure that grave Athenian would have told me all. 1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall VI. lxii. 255 The Athenians are still distinguished by the subtlety and acuteness of their understandings. 1877 L. H. Morgan Anc. Society ii. xiv. 349 Bachoven has collected and discussed the evidence of female authority..among the..Athenians. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.n.1526
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