Neapolitann.adj.

Brit.

/nɪəˈpɒlᵻt(ə)n/,

/ˌniːəˈpɒlᵻt(ə)n/, U.S.

/ˌniəˈpɑlətn/,

/ˌniəˈpɑlədən/

Forms: late Middle English–1800s Neopolitan, late Middle English– Neapolitan, 1500s Napolitane, 1500s–1600s Neapolitane, 1500s–1600s Neopolitane, 1500s–1800s Napolitan, 1600s Neapoliton, 1700s Neapolitian.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin Neāpolītānus.

Etymology: < classical Latin Neāpolītānus native or inhabitant of Naples, of or belonging to Naples < Neāpolītēs of or belonging to Naples, or its etymon ancient Greek or Hellenistic Greek Νεαπολίτης native or inhabitant of Naples (also Νεοπολίτης in an undated inscription; < ancient Greek Νεάπολις Naples n. + -ίτης -ite suffix¹) + classical Latin -ānus -an suffix. Compare post-classical Latin Napolitanus (1219 in an Italian source as a surname, in Greek letters), Italian Napoletano (a1282 as adjective, a1325 as noun), Middle French Neapolitain (mid 16th cent. as adjective and noun; French Napolitain).Middle English and later forms in Neo- are probably after neo- comb. form. Compare Old English Neapolite Neapolitans, attested as an ethnonym in the Blickling Homilies.

A. n.

a. A native or inhabitant of the city or former kingdom of Naples in southern Italy.

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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Italians > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Italy > other Italian towns

Genowayc1400

Neapolitanc1425

Venetian1432

milliner1449

Milanese1484

Genevois1521

Genoeses1553

Pisan1559

Ferrarese1573

Florentine1591

Paduana1592

Amalfitan1600

Bergamask1602

Genovese1603

Genoan1608

Salernitan1608

Patavine1611

Vicentine1611

White Moors1617

Perugian1620

Genoesian1624

Lucchese1660

Veronese1673

Modenese1711

Pavian1712

Sienese1756

Patavinian1771

Livornese1789

Bolognese1818

Torinese1864

Assisian1870

Triestine1905

Luccan1911

Padovan1953

Cassinese1957

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. 856 (MED) In Cecille he Naplis first be-gan, To whiche ful many Neopolitan [Bergen a1450–75 Neapolitan] Longeth þis day.

1549 W. Thomas Hist. Italie f. 132^v The Neapolitanes seeyng they coulde not haue Raynolde, fette his wyfe Isabell Duchesse of Angio vnto Naples.

1572 T. Wilson Disc. Vsurye Concl. sig. Ddiii The rebellion made by the prince of Salerne and others, to restore the Napolitanes to their auncient liberties.

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xvi. 148 One praysing the Neapolitans for good men at armes, said [etc.].

a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. ii. 111 O Stephano, two Neapolitanes scap'd.

1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa i. i. 8 The poor Neapolitan..was not slow to take his leave.

1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. II. 115 Cardinal Gieronimo Casanata, a Neapolitan.

1822 W. Robinson in J. A. Heraud Life Midshipm. (1837) v. 81 Genoese, French, Sards, and Neapolitans.

1862 J. W. Burgon Lett. from Rome xxii. 278 Two Neapolitans..soon entered into conversation with me.

1946 G. Millar Horned Pigeon v. 64 Our captain is a Neapolitan... He says that the Bay of Naples is the most wonderful sight in the world.

1991 N.Y. Mag. 9 Sept. 51/1 His play..shows how a typical, opportunistic family of impoverished Neapolitans wangled their way to riches by wartime black marketeering.

b. The Italian dialect spoken in Naples.

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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

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes How shall we, naie how may we ayme at the Venetian, at the Romane, at the Lombard, at the Neapolitane, at so manie, and so much differing Dialects, and Idiomes, as be vsed and spoken in Italie, besides the Florentine?

1642 J. Howell Instr. Forreine Travell xi. 138 There is in Italy the Toscan, the Roman, the Venetian, the Neapolitan,..and others..and all these have severall Dialects and Idiomes of Speech.

1859 B. W. Dwight Mod. Philol. i. 187 Italian: (Dialects, Lombard; Genoese; Florentine; Neapolitan, Sicilian,..&c.).

1901 M. Carmichael In Tuscany 99 Had Dante been born not at Florence but in Venice and written in Venetian, had Petrarch been born not at Arezzo but in Naples and written in Neapolitan, there would have been two classical languages in Italy today.

1936 G. F.-H. Berkeley & J. Berkeley Italy in Making II. xviii. 276 As a general rule he spoke French or Neapolitan, not Italian.

1973 A. Price October Men xi. 157 The man's Italian was..faultless... There was even..the hint of Neapolitan in it.

1992 Eng. Today Jan. 21/2 Jettatura refers to..the spell of the evil eye (from the Neapolitan iettatura, a throw).

†2. Early Music. = Napoletana n. 1. Obsolete.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > types of song > [noun] > folk-song > Italian

Neapolitanc1576

frottola1854

c1576 T. Whythorne Autobiogr. (1961) 180 Whoz dyverz dyverze tradz of miuzik part (alþouh not all) I spyd but cheefly þe Italien emong þe which iz on þat kalled iz Napolitan (A preti mery on[)].

1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 180 The Neapolitans, or canzone a la Napolitana, different from them [sc. canzonets] in nothing sauing in name.

†3. Syphilis. Cf. sense B. 2. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > venereal disease > [noun] > syphilis

foul evila1398

grandgore1497

French disease1503

French pox1503

pox1503

great pocka1519

great pox1529

morbus gallicus1543

gore1554

marbles1592

verol1596

Spanish pox1600

verola1600

the foul evil1607

bube1608

grincome1608

Neapolitan1631

lues1634

scabbado1651

venereal syphilis1653

foul disease1680

gout1694

syphilid1829

syphiloid1833

syphiloderma1850

vaccino-syphilis1868

neurosyphilis1878

old ral1878

syph1914

bejel1928

cosmic disease-

1631 T. Powell Tom of All Trades 28 Their best benefactor [is] the Neapolitan.

4. A Neapolitan pig. Cf. sense B. 3.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [noun] > specific breeds

purr?1577

Hampshirea1661

Shropshire1768

tun-back1776

Berkshire1810

Suffolk1831

China hog1838

Essex pig1838

Narragansett1852

Cumberland1860

Neapolitan1860

Tamworth1860

hazel splitter1866

Poland China1869

Duroc1872

Large Black1906

Lincolnshire Curly-Coat1917

saddleback1919

landrace1935

micropig1985

1860 S. Sidney Youatt's Pig v. 46 It is more probable that the Neapolitans are the descendants of dark Eastern Swine imported by early Italian voyagers.

1911 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 595/1 The Small Black or Black Suffolk was produced from the Old Essex pig by crossing it with the Neapolitan.

1935 G. W. Layley & W. J. Malden Evol. Brit. Pig 11 Next to the Far East breeds the Neapolitan, the Southern Italy breed, had most influence on the British breeds.

1978 A. Fenton Northern Isles lvi. 497 In Cross and Burness, the Neapolitan, the Berkshire and other improved breeds of swine had been introduced.

5. Short for Neapolitan mastiff n. at Compounds.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > other types of dog > [noun] > giant breeds > mastiff > other types of

moloss1842

bull-mastiff1871

molossus1879

Dogue de Bordeaux1895

Tosa1945

boerboel1965

Dogo1975

Neapolitan1987

Dogo Argentino1989

1987 T. Szabo tr. M. Zacchi Neapolitan Mastiff iii. 50 Jumping the centuries to the mastiff (or mastino) of the famous Goya painting of 1786, we once again find a dog very similar to our Neapolitan.

1990 Daily Tel. 7 Mar. 1 The Neapolitan is still rare in Britain. She may cost about £1,500 on the Continent, plus £2,000 quarantine fees, but once the litters start coming the so-called breeders can charge a premium.

1993 Dog World Oct. 112/3 (advt.) All puppies are superb—only blues available. They are very large with heavy bone. Truly Neapolitans of Distinction.

B. adj.

1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of Naples, the Neapolitans, or their dialect.

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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Italians > [adjective] > other Italian towns

jean1495

Venetian1554

Milanese1569

Pisan1570

Neapolitan1580

Salerne1598

Florentine1603

Salernitan1621

Amalfitan1625

Paduan1633

Pavian1633

Modenese1693

Veronese1757

Sienese1814

Torinese1864

Lucchese1883

Patavine1929

1580 J. Hester tr. L. Fioravanti Short Disc. Chirurg. f. 29 There was a certeine Gentleman Neapolitan..the which was..tormented with a sore arme and a sore legge.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Certaine Sonets in Arcadia (1598) sig. Ss3^v To the tune of a Neapolitan Villanell.

1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice i. ii. 38 First there is the Neopolitane Prince.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 133 English Coursers, bred of the Neapolitan Horses and English Mares.

1691 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 8) 173 Medlars. The Great Dutch, Neopolitan: and One without Stones.

1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 203 The Lybian Port is but the Neapolitan Bay in little.

1797 A. Radcliffe Italian II. i. 3 The strangers of distinction, dressed in the splendid Neapolitan habit.

1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. (1837) I. i. vi. 141 Recent shells procured..from the Neapolitan seas.

1862 J. W. Burgon Lett. from Rome xxii. 276 There seemed in fact a marked change of race on getting into the Neapolitan States.

1907 Daily Chron. 22 Aug. 4/4 The Neapolitan city police were in the pay of Camorrist assassins.

1955 E. David Bk. Mediterranean Food 40 The Neapolitan pizza..consists of tomatoes, anchovies and mozzarella cheese.

1991 D. S. MacKenzie Truth of Stone 171 She felt herself to be reasonably proficient in Italian and she had begun..to learn a few words of the Neapolitan dialect.

†2. euphemistic. Of or relating to syphilis or a syphilitic condition. Obsolete.Syphilis was believed to have been first contracted by the French (and so brought to northern Europe) during Charles VIII's siege of Naples in 1495. Cf. Naples n. 1, French-sick adj. at French adj. and n. Compounds 1b.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > venereal disease > [adjective] > syphilis

pocky?1550

Neapolitan1591

syphilitic1764

syphiloid1813

luodic1822

vaccino-syphilitic1868

neurosyphilitic1877

parasyphilitic1889

1591 R. Greene Notable Discouery of Coosenage f. 10^v They..find nothing but a Neapolitane fauour for their labour.

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Neopolitan disease.

1671 H. M. tr. Erasmus Colloquies 531 The New Leprosie, which some..do call the Neapolitan scab.

a1704 T. Brown Lett. to Gentlemen & Ladies in 3rd Vol. Wks. (1708) ii. 97 Had'st thou administered a little Neapolitan Consolation to thy Hibernian.

1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. (1783) II. 76 This distemper..has been sometimes called the Neapolitan and sometimes the French disease.

3. Designating a breed of black or grey pig originating in Italy. Cf. sense A. 4.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [adjective] > of specific breed

Yorkshire1770

Cumberland1811

Neapolitan1847

Wessex1919

1847 W. Youatt Pig v. 44 The Neapolitan breed has been extensively exported, for the purpose of crossing with other kinds, and has found considerable favour in many parts of England.

1855 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. II. 945/1 The Neapolitan pig is the one from which has sprung most of the improvements made in our small breeds.

1908 E. V. Wilcox & C. B. Smith Farmer's Cycl. Live Stock ix. 499/2 The improved hogs of Europe are based on the native wild European hogs, as modified by crossing with the Chinese, Neapolitan and Siamese breeds.

1989 S. G. Hall & J. Clutton-Brock 200 Years Brit. Farm Livestock xii. 210 Lord Western imported Neapolitan pigs, having been impressed by them while on the continent.

Compounds

Neapolitan ice n. = Neapolitan ice cream n.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > ices > [noun] > ice-cream > types or forms of

pistachio ice?1790

iced tea1827

tutti-frutti1834

brown-bread ice1846

vanilla ice1846

vanille ice1846

Neapolitan ice1867

Neapolitan ice cream1868

hokey-pokey1884

strawberry ice cream1890

choc chip1903

horn1908

Tortoni1911

slider1915

choc bar1919

cone1920

Eskimo pie1921

brick1922

brickette1922

Eskimo1922

choc ice1924

cornet1926

briquette1927

gelato1932

ninety-nine1935

wafer1936

fudgicle1938

ripple1939

tub1939

vanilla1955

double dip1965

1867 Harper's Mag. Dec. 75/1 The most delicate wines, the finest Neapolitan ices, were brought to them after each dance.

1933 A. Huxley Let. 29 Apr. (1969) 369 Mexico was..very curious. Such a strange Neapolitan ice, with its layers of Indian, mestizo, white.

2000 Independent (Nexis) 17 June 11 As the Neapolitan ice colours and goofy graphics of their covers signals, the novels of Jane Green and Amy Jenkins are literary candy-floss.

Neapolitan ice cream n. ice cream made in layers of different colours and flavours; also in extended use.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > ices > [noun] > ice-cream > types or forms of

pistachio ice?1790

iced tea1827

tutti-frutti1834

brown-bread ice1846

vanilla ice1846

vanille ice1846

Neapolitan ice1867

Neapolitan ice cream1868

hokey-pokey1884

strawberry ice cream1890

choc chip1903

horn1908

Tortoni1911

slider1915

choc bar1919

cone1920

Eskimo pie1921

brick1922

brickette1922

Eskimo1922

choc ice1924

cornet1926

briquette1927

gelato1932

ninety-nine1935

wafer1936

fudgicle1938

ripple1939

tub1939

vanilla1955

double dip1965

1868 E. S. Colton (Printed Ephemera Coll., Libr. of Congress) (title) Neapolitan ice cream... The subscriber takes this method to inform the lovers of rare confectionary, that he is manufacturing an entire new article o[f] ice cream, which far surpasses anything in that line ever offered in this city.

1895 ‘M. Ronald’ Cent. Cook Bk. xxii. 498 Neapolitan ice-cream. This cream is molded in brick form in three layers of different flavors and colors.

1911 F. M. Farmer Catering for Special Occasions x. 220 Neapolitan ice cream. Pack orange ice cream and chocolate ice cream in layers of equal depth in a brick mold.

1991 P. Jenkins Fields of Vision x. 79 The sun has caught his face;..his forehead is neatly divided, like a block of Neapolitan ice cream, into red-and-white stripes.

Neapolitan mandolin n. (also mandolino) Music the original and more common type of mandolin (usually referred to without qualification as a mandolin), having four (or occasionally five) pairs of strings which fasten at the lower end of its body, and a neck which is attached to its body rather than being a continuation of it; cf. Milanese mandolin n. at Milanese n.¹ and adj. Compounds.

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1870 C. Engel Descr. Catal. Mus. Instruments in S. Kensington Museum 44 Mozart, in his ‘Don Giovanni’, has made use of the Neopolitan mandolino in the serenade.]

1944 W. Apel Harvard Dict. Music 422/2 The Neapolitan mandolin has five double-courses (ten strings) tuned in fifths.

1996 Sun (Baltimore) (Nexis) 13 Jan. 1 d A Neapolitan mandolin rendition of the theme from ‘The Godfather’.

† Neapolitan maple n. Obsolete an Italian maple of the subspecies Acer opalus subsp. obtusatum (formerly A. neapolitanum), having larger leaves with downy undersides.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > maples > [noun]

maple treeOE

maplec1385

plane tree1562

great maple1597

sycamore-tree1597

sycamore1598

sugar-tree1705

sugar maple1731

red maple1767

scarlet maple1768

rock maple1774

white maple1774

silk wood1775

moosewood1778

mountain maple1785

box elder1787

acer1793

sycamore maple1796

mock plane1797

Montpellier maple1797

water maple1803

soft maple1806

sugar-wood1809

swamp maple1810

low maple1813

maple bush1821

Neapolitan maple1833

snake-bark1838

moose-maple1839

sap-tree1843

Manitoba maple1887

Japanese maple1898

curly maple1909

Queensland maple1915

paperbark maple1927

Amur maple1934

1833 Penny Cycl. I. 77/1 Acer obtusatum, the Neapolitan maple.

1882 Garden 18 Nov. 459/2 The Neapolitan Maple, with its reddish purple branches, is a handsome tree.

Neapolitan mastiff n. a breed of mastiff native to Italy which is often used as a guard dog; cf. sense A. 5.

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1964 E. F. Daglish tr. E. Schneider-Leyer Dogs of World ix. 105 (heading) Neapolitan or Italian Mastiff.

1994 Dog World June 239/1 An ancient breed, rediscovered in Italy in the 1940s, the Neapolitan Mastiff is a heavy-boned, massive, awe-inspiring dog bred for use as a guard and unsurpassed defender of persons and property.

2000 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 10 Dec. 32/3 What really yanks his chain is that the bad guys killed his loyal sidekick,..a Neapolitan mastiff who had aided and abetted Burke in his many..missions.

† Neapolitan medlar n. (also Neopolitan medlar tree) Obsolete the azarole, Crataegus azarolus, a small hawthorn-like tree.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > thorny berry-bush > [noun] > hawthorn and allies

hawthorna700

hawthorn-treec1290

whitethorna1300

haw-treec1325

albespyne?a1425

thorn-tree1483

mespilus1548

may-branch1560

quickthorn1571

hedge-bush1576

busket1579

May-bush1579

Neapolitan medlar1597

azarole1658

pyracanth1664

white bush1676

Glastonbury thorna1697

quick1727

evergreen thorn1731

blackthorn1737

whitethorn1788

oriental medlar1797

haw1821

May-haw1840

Maythorn1844

May1848

pear thorn1848

pink thorn1852

aronia thorn1882

scarlet thorn1882

black haw1897

1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. xcii. 1266 We may name it in English three graine Medlar: or Neapolitane Medlar, or Medlar of Naples.

1659 R. Lovell Παμβοτανολογια 295 Medlar tree... K[inds] as the manured, the other garden, the Neapolitan and the dwarfe.

1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Mespilus The Azarola or Neapolitan Medlar, has been introduced from Italy, where the Fruit is greatly esteem'd.

1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants 183/2 Cratægus Azarolus, Azarole Thorn, Neapolitan Medlar, Parsley-leaved Haw-thorn.

† Neapolitan ointment n. [compare French onguent napolitain (1690)] Obsolete rare an ointment containing mercury, formerly used to treat syphilis; cf. sense A. 3.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations treating or preventing specific ailments > [noun] > for venereal disease or syphilis > ointment

Neapolitan ointment1753

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Neapolitan ointment..is a mixture of quicksilver, and other things into an ointment.

Neapolitan sixth n. Music a chord consisting of the first inversion of the major triad built on the flattened supertonic.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > chord > [noun] > other chords

seventh1591

fourth1597

sixth1597

fifth1631

tierce1696

septime1725

repercussion1728

octave1749

substitution1784

triad1786

German sixth1812

French sixth1813

nintha1830

Neapolitan sixth1871

six-four1873

Italian sixth1875

tetrad1881

added sixth1888

leading seventh1889

ninth chord1889

under-chord1890

diminished seventh1926

1871 J. Stainer Theory of Harmony xii. §138 A chord consisting of the sub-dominant and its minor third and minor sixth is used in the major or minor mode. It is called the Neapolitan Sixth.

1991 Music & Lett. 72 172 Many writers..have drawn attention to the misuse of the Neapolitan sixth in bar 11 of the ‘Lacrymosa’.

Neapolitan song n. Music a genre of song, particularly popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which blends the popular, vernacular style of Neapolitan folk music with the more stylized traditions of the art song; a song in this genre.

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1857 O. W. Le Vert Souvenirs of Trav. 180 Octavia was wishing she could hear the Neapolitan song I so often sang to her in her baby-days.

1905 T. Baker & H. G. Chapman tr. E. Mayo Songs of People: Neapolitan Songs p. iv We have not aimed at making a complete collection of Neapolitan songs.

2001 Washington Times (Electronic ed.) 30 June Dating to when he heard his Italian immigrant grandfather belt out Neapolitan songs, Mr Chianese always had a passion for music.

Neapolitan system n. Bridge a one-club system devised principally by the Italian (Neapolitan) bridge champion, Eugenio Chiaradia (1917–77).

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1959 T. Reese & A. Dormer Bridge Player's Dict. 151 Neapolitan System,..one of the principal Italian systems, played by Forquet and Siniscalco and others. It is one-club system, with a series of artificial responses.

1962 Listener 22 Nov. 886/2 West, playing the Neapolitan system, opened Two Diamonds.

Neapolitan violet n. a sweet-scented double variety of viola; a Parma violet.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > pea flowers > violet and allied flowers > allied flowers

pansyc1450

heartsease1530

pansy flower1530

three (also two) faces under (or in) a (or one) hood1548

bulbous violet1578

love-in-idleness1578

sweet violet1578

pensea1592

cull-me-to-you1597

dog's tooth violet1597

dog violet1597

kiss-me-ere-I-rise1597

live in idleness1597

wild violet1597

yellow violet1597

love-and-idle1630

love-in-idle1664

trinity1699

fancy1712

wood violet1713

marsh violet1753

tree violet1753

kiss-me-at-the-gate1787

bird's-foot violet1802

Parma violet1812

Johnny-jump-up1827

stepmother1828

Neapolitan violet1830

garden gate1842

butterfly pea1848

kissa1852

pinkany-John1854

viola1871

kiss-me1877

pink-eyed John1877

face and hood1886

roosterhead1894

trout-lily1909

1830 Loudon's Gardener's Mag. 6 532 The borders and beds in the garden have every thing rare and curious, from the superb magnolia to the Neapolitan violet.

1956 Dict. Gardening (Royal Hort. Soc.) (ed. 2) IV. 2236/2 The large-flowered double Violets, known as Parma or Neapolitan Violets, are evidently of Oriental origin and derived not from V. odorata but another species, probably V. alba.

Neapolitan yellow n. = Naples yellow n. at Naples n. 5.

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the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > colouring matter > [noun] > pigments

yelloweOE

motey1353

arsenica1393

orpimentc1395

auripigmenta1398

ochre1440

pink1464

massicot1472

yellow ochre1482

orpine1548

painter's gold1591

spruce1668

giallolino1728

king's yellow1738

Naples yellow1738

stil de grain1769

yellow earth1794

queen's yellow1806

chromate1819

chrome yellow1819

Oxford ochre1827

Indian yellow1831

Italian pink1835

Montpellier yellow1835

Turner1835

quercitron lake1837

jaune brillant1851

zinc chromate1851

zinc sulphide1851

brush-gold1861

zooxanthin1868

Oxford chrome1875

aureolin1879

cadmium yellow1879

Cassel yellow1882

Neapolitan yellow1891

zinc chrome1892

Mars1899

jaune jonquille1910

1891 T. E. Thorpe Dict. Appl. Chem. II. 692/2 Neapolitan Yellow.

1898 E. Young Kingdom of Yellow Robe xx. 391 The pale Neapolitan yellow colour of the iris of the eye.

1999 Financial Times (Nexis) 2 Jan. 18 Two vaguely classical buildings in Pompeiian red and Neapolitan yellow.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	neapolitan
释义	Neapolitann.adj. Brit. /nɪəˈpɒlᵻt(ə)n/, /ˌniːəˈpɒlᵻt(ə)n/, U.S. /ˌniəˈpɑlətn/, /ˌniəˈpɑlədən/ Forms: late Middle English–1800s Neopolitan, late Middle English– Neapolitan, 1500s Napolitane, 1500s–1600s Neapolitane, 1500s–1600s Neopolitane, 1500s–1800s Napolitan, 1600s Neapoliton, 1700s Neapolitian. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin Neāpolītānus. Etymology: < classical Latin Neāpolītānus native or inhabitant of Naples, of or belonging to Naples < Neāpolītēs of or belonging to Naples, or its etymon ancient Greek or Hellenistic Greek Νεαπολίτης native or inhabitant of Naples (also Νεοπολίτης in an undated inscription; < ancient Greek Νεάπολις Naples n. + -ίτης -ite suffix¹) + classical Latin -ānus -an suffix. Compare post-classical Latin Napolitanus (1219 in an Italian source as a surname, in Greek letters), Italian Napoletano (a1282 as adjective, a1325 as noun), Middle French Neapolitain (mid 16th cent. as adjective and noun; French Napolitain).Middle English and later forms in Neo- are probably after neo- comb. form. Compare Old English Neapolite Neapolitans, attested as an ethnonym in the Blickling Homilies. A. n. 1. a. A native or inhabitant of the city or former kingdom of Naples in southern Italy. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Italians > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Italy > other Italian towns Genowayc1400 Neapolitanc1425 Venetian1432 milliner1449 Milanese1484 Genevois1521 Genoeses1553 Pisan1559 Ferrarese1573 Florentine1591 Paduana1592 Amalfitan1600 Bergamask1602 Genovese1603 Genoan1608 Salernitan1608 Patavine1611 Vicentine1611 White Moors1617 Perugian1620 Genoesian1624 Lucchese1660 Veronese1673 Modenese1711 Pavian1712 Sienese1756 Patavinian1771 Livornese1789 Bolognese1818 Torinese1864 Assisian1870 Triestine1905 Luccan1911 Padovan1953 Cassinese1957 c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. 856 (MED) In Cecille he Naplis first be-gan, To whiche ful many Neopolitan [Bergen a1450–75 Neapolitan] Longeth þis day. 1549 W. Thomas Hist. Italie f. 132^v The Neapolitanes seeyng they coulde not haue Raynolde, fette his wyfe Isabell Duchesse of Angio vnto Naples. 1572 T. Wilson Disc. Vsurye Concl. sig. Ddiii The rebellion made by the prince of Salerne and others, to restore the Napolitanes to their auncient liberties. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xvi. 148 One praysing the Neapolitans for good men at armes, said [etc.]. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. ii. 111 O Stephano, two Neapolitanes scap'd. View more context for this quotation 1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa i. i. 8 The poor Neapolitan..was not slow to take his leave. 1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. II. 115 Cardinal Gieronimo Casanata, a Neapolitan. 1822 W. Robinson in J. A. Heraud Life Midshipm. (1837) v. 81 Genoese, French, Sards, and Neapolitans. 1862 J. W. Burgon Lett. from Rome xxii. 278 Two Neapolitans..soon entered into conversation with me. 1946 G. Millar Horned Pigeon v. 64 Our captain is a Neapolitan... He says that the Bay of Naples is the most wonderful sight in the world. 1991 N.Y. Mag. 9 Sept. 51/1 His play..shows how a typical, opportunistic family of impoverished Neapolitans wangled their way to riches by wartime black marketeering. b. The Italian dialect spoken in Naples. ΘΚΠ 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 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes How shall we, naie how may we ayme at the Venetian, at the Romane, at the Lombard, at the Neapolitane, at so manie, and so much differing Dialects, and Idiomes, as be vsed and spoken in Italie, besides the Florentine? 1642 J. Howell Instr. Forreine Travell xi. 138 There is in Italy the Toscan, the Roman, the Venetian, the Neapolitan,..and others..and all these have severall Dialects and Idiomes of Speech. 1859 B. W. Dwight Mod. Philol. i. 187 Italian: (Dialects, Lombard; Genoese; Florentine; Neapolitan, Sicilian,..&c.). 1901 M. Carmichael In Tuscany 99 Had Dante been born not at Florence but in Venice and written in Venetian, had Petrarch been born not at Arezzo but in Naples and written in Neapolitan, there would have been two classical languages in Italy today. 1936 G. F.-H. Berkeley & J. Berkeley Italy in Making II. xviii. 276 As a general rule he spoke French or Neapolitan, not Italian. 1973 A. Price October Men xi. 157 The man's Italian was..faultless... There was even..the hint of Neapolitan in it. 1992 Eng. Today Jan. 21/2 Jettatura refers to..the spell of the evil eye (from the Neapolitan iettatura, a throw). †2. Early Music. = Napoletana n. 1. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > types of song > [noun] > folk-song > Italian Neapolitanc1576 frottola1854 c1576 T. Whythorne Autobiogr. (1961) 180 Whoz dyverz dyverze tradz of miuzik part (alþouh not all) I spyd but cheefly þe Italien emong þe which iz on þat kalled iz Napolitan (A preti mery on[)]. 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 180 The Neapolitans, or canzone a la Napolitana, different from them [sc. canzonets] in nothing sauing in name. †3. Syphilis. Cf. sense B. 2. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > venereal disease > [noun] > syphilis foul evila1398 grandgore1497 French disease1503 French pox1503 pox1503 great pocka1519 great pox1529 morbus gallicus1543 gore1554 marbles1592 verol1596 Spanish pox1600 verola1600 the foul evil1607 bube1608 grincome1608 Neapolitan1631 lues1634 scabbado1651 venereal syphilis1653 foul disease1680 gout1694 syphilid1829 syphiloid1833 syphiloderma1850 vaccino-syphilis1868 neurosyphilis1878 old ral1878 syph1914 bejel1928 cosmic disease- 1631 T. Powell Tom of All Trades 28 Their best benefactor [is] the Neapolitan. 4. A Neapolitan pig. Cf. sense B. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [noun] > specific breeds purr?1577 Hampshirea1661 Shropshire1768 tun-back1776 Berkshire1810 Suffolk1831 China hog1838 Essex pig1838 Narragansett1852 Cumberland1860 Neapolitan1860 Tamworth1860 hazel splitter1866 Poland China1869 Duroc1872 Large Black1906 Lincolnshire Curly-Coat1917 saddleback1919 landrace1935 micropig1985 1860 S. Sidney Youatt's Pig v. 46 It is more probable that the Neapolitans are the descendants of dark Eastern Swine imported by early Italian voyagers. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 595/1 The Small Black or Black Suffolk was produced from the Old Essex pig by crossing it with the Neapolitan. 1935 G. W. Layley & W. J. Malden Evol. Brit. Pig 11 Next to the Far East breeds the Neapolitan, the Southern Italy breed, had most influence on the British breeds. 1978 A. Fenton Northern Isles lvi. 497 In Cross and Burness, the Neapolitan, the Berkshire and other improved breeds of swine had been introduced. 5. Short for Neapolitan mastiff n. at Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > other types of dog > [noun] > giant breeds > mastiff > other types of moloss1842 bull-mastiff1871 molossus1879 Dogue de Bordeaux1895 Tosa1945 boerboel1965 Dogo1975 Neapolitan1987 Dogo Argentino1989 1987 T. Szabo tr. M. Zacchi Neapolitan Mastiff iii. 50 Jumping the centuries to the mastiff (or mastino) of the famous Goya painting of 1786, we once again find a dog very similar to our Neapolitan. 1990 Daily Tel. 7 Mar. 1 The Neapolitan is still rare in Britain. She may cost about £1,500 on the Continent, plus £2,000 quarantine fees, but once the litters start coming the so-called breeders can charge a premium. 1993 Dog World Oct. 112/3 (advt.) All puppies are superb—only blues available. They are very large with heavy bone. Truly Neapolitans of Distinction. B. adj. 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of Naples, the Neapolitans, or their dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Italians > [adjective] > other Italian towns jean1495 Venetian1554 Milanese1569 Pisan1570 Neapolitan1580 Salerne1598 Florentine1603 Salernitan1621 Amalfitan1625 Paduan1633 Pavian1633 Modenese1693 Veronese1757 Sienese1814 Torinese1864 Lucchese1883 Patavine1929 1580 J. Hester tr. L. Fioravanti Short Disc. Chirurg. f. 29 There was a certeine Gentleman Neapolitan..the which was..tormented with a sore arme and a sore legge. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Certaine Sonets in Arcadia (1598) sig. Ss3^v To the tune of a Neapolitan Villanell. 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice i. ii. 38 First there is the Neopolitane Prince. View more context for this quotation 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 133 English Coursers, bred of the Neapolitan Horses and English Mares. 1691 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 8) 173 Medlars. The Great Dutch, Neopolitan: and One without Stones. 1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 203 The Lybian Port is but the Neapolitan Bay in little. 1797 A. Radcliffe Italian II. i. 3 The strangers of distinction, dressed in the splendid Neapolitan habit. 1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. (1837) I. i. vi. 141 Recent shells procured..from the Neapolitan seas. 1862 J. W. Burgon Lett. from Rome xxii. 276 There seemed in fact a marked change of race on getting into the Neapolitan States. 1907 Daily Chron. 22 Aug. 4/4 The Neapolitan city police were in the pay of Camorrist assassins. 1955 E. David Bk. Mediterranean Food 40 The Neapolitan pizza..consists of tomatoes, anchovies and mozzarella cheese. 1991 D. S. MacKenzie Truth of Stone 171 She felt herself to be reasonably proficient in Italian and she had begun..to learn a few words of the Neapolitan dialect. †2. euphemistic. Of or relating to syphilis or a syphilitic condition. Obsolete.Syphilis was believed to have been first contracted by the French (and so brought to northern Europe) during Charles VIII's siege of Naples in 1495. Cf. Naples n. 1, French-sick adj. at French adj. and n. Compounds 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > venereal disease > [adjective] > syphilis pocky?1550 Neapolitan1591 syphilitic1764 syphiloid1813 luodic1822 vaccino-syphilitic1868 neurosyphilitic1877 parasyphilitic1889 1591 R. Greene Notable Discouery of Coosenage f. 10^v They..find nothing but a Neapolitane fauour for their labour. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Neopolitan disease. 1671 H. M. tr. Erasmus Colloquies 531 The New Leprosie, which some..do call the Neapolitan scab. a1704 T. Brown Lett. to Gentlemen & Ladies in 3rd Vol. Wks. (1708) ii. 97 Had'st thou administered a little Neapolitan Consolation to thy Hibernian. 1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. (1783) II. 76 This distemper..has been sometimes called the Neapolitan and sometimes the French disease. 3. Designating a breed of black or grey pig originating in Italy. Cf. sense A. 4. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [adjective] > of specific breed Yorkshire1770 Cumberland1811 Neapolitan1847 Wessex1919 1847 W. Youatt Pig v. 44 The Neapolitan breed has been extensively exported, for the purpose of crossing with other kinds, and has found considerable favour in many parts of England. 1855 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. II. 945/1 The Neapolitan pig is the one from which has sprung most of the improvements made in our small breeds. 1908 E. V. Wilcox & C. B. Smith Farmer's Cycl. Live Stock ix. 499/2 The improved hogs of Europe are based on the native wild European hogs, as modified by crossing with the Chinese, Neapolitan and Siamese breeds. 1989 S. G. Hall & J. Clutton-Brock 200 Years Brit. Farm Livestock xii. 210 Lord Western imported Neapolitan pigs, having been impressed by them while on the continent. Compounds Neapolitan ice n. = Neapolitan ice cream n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > ices > [noun] > ice-cream > types or forms of pistachio ice?1790 iced tea1827 tutti-frutti1834 brown-bread ice1846 vanilla ice1846 vanille ice1846 Neapolitan ice1867 Neapolitan ice cream1868 hokey-pokey1884 strawberry ice cream1890 choc chip1903 horn1908 Tortoni1911 slider1915 choc bar1919 cone1920 Eskimo pie1921 brick1922 brickette1922 Eskimo1922 choc ice1924 cornet1926 briquette1927 gelato1932 ninety-nine1935 wafer1936 fudgicle1938 ripple1939 tub1939 vanilla1955 double dip1965 1867 Harper's Mag. Dec. 75/1 The most delicate wines, the finest Neapolitan ices, were brought to them after each dance. 1933 A. Huxley Let. 29 Apr. (1969) 369 Mexico was..very curious. Such a strange Neapolitan ice, with its layers of Indian, mestizo, white. 2000 Independent (Nexis) 17 June 11 As the Neapolitan ice colours and goofy graphics of their covers signals, the novels of Jane Green and Amy Jenkins are literary candy-floss. Neapolitan ice cream n. ice cream made in layers of different colours and flavours; also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > ices > [noun] > ice-cream > types or forms of pistachio ice?1790 iced tea1827 tutti-frutti1834 brown-bread ice1846 vanilla ice1846 vanille ice1846 Neapolitan ice1867 Neapolitan ice cream1868 hokey-pokey1884 strawberry ice cream1890 choc chip1903 horn1908 Tortoni1911 slider1915 choc bar1919 cone1920 Eskimo pie1921 brick1922 brickette1922 Eskimo1922 choc ice1924 cornet1926 briquette1927 gelato1932 ninety-nine1935 wafer1936 fudgicle1938 ripple1939 tub1939 vanilla1955 double dip1965 1868 E. S. Colton (Printed Ephemera Coll., Libr. of Congress) (title) Neapolitan ice cream... The subscriber takes this method to inform the lovers of rare confectionary, that he is manufacturing an entire new article o[f] ice cream, which far surpasses anything in that line ever offered in this city. 1895 ‘M. Ronald’ Cent. Cook Bk. xxii. 498 Neapolitan ice-cream. This cream is molded in brick form in three layers of different flavors and colors. 1911 F. M. Farmer Catering for Special Occasions x. 220 Neapolitan ice cream. Pack orange ice cream and chocolate ice cream in layers of equal depth in a brick mold. 1991 P. Jenkins Fields of Vision x. 79 The sun has caught his face;..his forehead is neatly divided, like a block of Neapolitan ice cream, into red-and-white stripes. Neapolitan mandolin n. (also mandolino) Music the original and more common type of mandolin (usually referred to without qualification as a mandolin), having four (or occasionally five) pairs of strings which fasten at the lower end of its body, and a neck which is attached to its body rather than being a continuation of it; cf. Milanese mandolin n. at Milanese n.¹ and adj. Compounds. ΚΠ 1870 C. Engel Descr. Catal. Mus. Instruments in S. Kensington Museum 44 Mozart, in his ‘Don Giovanni’, has made use of the Neopolitan mandolino in the serenade.] 1944 W. Apel Harvard Dict. Music 422/2 The Neapolitan mandolin has five double-courses (ten strings) tuned in fifths. 1996 Sun (Baltimore) (Nexis) 13 Jan. 1 d A Neapolitan mandolin rendition of the theme from ‘The Godfather’. † Neapolitan maple n. Obsolete an Italian maple of the subspecies Acer opalus subsp. obtusatum (formerly A. neapolitanum), having larger leaves with downy undersides. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > maples > [noun] maple treeOE maplec1385 plane tree1562 great maple1597 sycamore-tree1597 sycamore1598 sugar-tree1705 sugar maple1731 red maple1767 scarlet maple1768 rock maple1774 white maple1774 silk wood1775 moosewood1778 mountain maple1785 box elder1787 acer1793 sycamore maple1796 mock plane1797 Montpellier maple1797 water maple1803 soft maple1806 sugar-wood1809 swamp maple1810 low maple1813 maple bush1821 Neapolitan maple1833 snake-bark1838 moose-maple1839 sap-tree1843 Manitoba maple1887 Japanese maple1898 curly maple1909 Queensland maple1915 paperbark maple1927 Amur maple1934 1833 Penny Cycl. I. 77/1 Acer obtusatum, the Neapolitan maple. 1882 Garden 18 Nov. 459/2 The Neapolitan Maple, with its reddish purple branches, is a handsome tree. Neapolitan mastiff n. a breed of mastiff native to Italy which is often used as a guard dog; cf. sense A. 5. ΚΠ 1964 E. F. Daglish tr. E. Schneider-Leyer Dogs of World ix. 105 (heading) Neapolitan or Italian Mastiff. 1994 Dog World June 239/1 An ancient breed, rediscovered in Italy in the 1940s, the Neapolitan Mastiff is a heavy-boned, massive, awe-inspiring dog bred for use as a guard and unsurpassed defender of persons and property. 2000 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 10 Dec. 32/3 What really yanks his chain is that the bad guys killed his loyal sidekick,..a Neapolitan mastiff who had aided and abetted Burke in his many..missions. † Neapolitan medlar n. (also Neopolitan medlar tree) Obsolete the azarole, Crataegus azarolus, a small hawthorn-like tree. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > thorny berry-bush > [noun] > hawthorn and allies hawthorna700 hawthorn-treec1290 whitethorna1300 haw-treec1325 albespyne?a1425 thorn-tree1483 mespilus1548 may-branch1560 quickthorn1571 hedge-bush1576 busket1579 May-bush1579 Neapolitan medlar1597 azarole1658 pyracanth1664 white bush1676 Glastonbury thorna1697 quick1727 evergreen thorn1731 blackthorn1737 whitethorn1788 oriental medlar1797 haw1821 May-haw1840 Maythorn1844 May1848 pear thorn1848 pink thorn1852 aronia thorn1882 scarlet thorn1882 black haw1897 1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. xcii. 1266 We may name it in English three graine Medlar: or Neapolitane Medlar, or Medlar of Naples. 1659 R. Lovell Παμβοτανολογια 295 Medlar tree... K[inds] as the manured, the other garden, the Neapolitan and the dwarfe. 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Mespilus The Azarola or Neapolitan Medlar, has been introduced from Italy, where the Fruit is greatly esteem'd. 1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants 183/2 Cratægus Azarolus, Azarole Thorn, Neapolitan Medlar, Parsley-leaved Haw-thorn. † Neapolitan ointment n. [compare French onguent napolitain (1690)] Obsolete rare an ointment containing mercury, formerly used to treat syphilis; cf. sense A. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations treating or preventing specific ailments > [noun] > for venereal disease or syphilis > ointment Neapolitan ointment1753 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Neapolitan ointment..is a mixture of quicksilver, and other things into an ointment. Neapolitan sixth n. Music a chord consisting of the first inversion of the major triad built on the flattened supertonic. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > chord > [noun] > other chords seventh1591 fourth1597 sixth1597 fifth1631 tierce1696 septime1725 repercussion1728 octave1749 substitution1784 triad1786 German sixth1812 French sixth1813 nintha1830 Neapolitan sixth1871 six-four1873 Italian sixth1875 tetrad1881 added sixth1888 leading seventh1889 ninth chord1889 under-chord1890 diminished seventh1926 1871 J. Stainer Theory of Harmony xii. §138 A chord consisting of the sub-dominant and its minor third and minor sixth is used in the major or minor mode. It is called the Neapolitan Sixth. 1991 Music & Lett. 72 172 Many writers..have drawn attention to the misuse of the Neapolitan sixth in bar 11 of the ‘Lacrymosa’. Neapolitan song n. Music a genre of song, particularly popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which blends the popular, vernacular style of Neapolitan folk music with the more stylized traditions of the art song; a song in this genre. ΚΠ 1857 O. W. Le Vert Souvenirs of Trav. 180 Octavia was wishing she could hear the Neapolitan song I so often sang to her in her baby-days. 1905 T. Baker & H. G. Chapman tr. E. Mayo Songs of People: Neapolitan Songs p. iv We have not aimed at making a complete collection of Neapolitan songs. 2001 Washington Times (Electronic ed.) 30 June Dating to when he heard his Italian immigrant grandfather belt out Neapolitan songs, Mr Chianese always had a passion for music. Neapolitan system n. Bridge a one-club system devised principally by the Italian (Neapolitan) bridge champion, Eugenio Chiaradia (1917–77). ΚΠ 1959 T. Reese & A. Dormer Bridge Player's Dict. 151 Neapolitan System,..one of the principal Italian systems, played by Forquet and Siniscalco and others. It is one-club system, with a series of artificial responses. 1962 Listener 22 Nov. 886/2 West, playing the Neapolitan system, opened Two Diamonds. Neapolitan violet n. a sweet-scented double variety of viola; a Parma violet. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > pea flowers > violet and allied flowers > allied flowers pansyc1450 heartsease1530 pansy flower1530 three (also two) faces under (or in) a (or one) hood1548 bulbous violet1578 love-in-idleness1578 sweet violet1578 pensea1592 cull-me-to-you1597 dog's tooth violet1597 dog violet1597 kiss-me-ere-I-rise1597 live in idleness1597 wild violet1597 yellow violet1597 love-and-idle1630 love-in-idle1664 trinity1699 fancy1712 wood violet1713 marsh violet1753 tree violet1753 kiss-me-at-the-gate1787 bird's-foot violet1802 Parma violet1812 Johnny-jump-up1827 stepmother1828 Neapolitan violet1830 garden gate1842 butterfly pea1848 kissa1852 pinkany-John1854 viola1871 kiss-me1877 pink-eyed John1877 face and hood1886 roosterhead1894 trout-lily1909 1830 Loudon's Gardener's Mag. 6 532 The borders and beds in the garden have every thing rare and curious, from the superb magnolia to the Neapolitan violet. 1956 Dict. Gardening (Royal Hort. Soc.) (ed. 2) IV. 2236/2 The large-flowered double Violets, known as Parma or Neapolitan Violets, are evidently of Oriental origin and derived not from V. odorata but another species, probably V. alba. Neapolitan yellow n. = Naples yellow n. at Naples n. 5. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > colouring matter > [noun] > pigments yelloweOE motey1353 arsenica1393 orpimentc1395 auripigmenta1398 ochre1440 pink1464 massicot1472 yellow ochre1482 orpine1548 painter's gold1591 spruce1668 giallolino1728 king's yellow1738 Naples yellow1738 stil de grain1769 yellow earth1794 queen's yellow1806 chromate1819 chrome yellow1819 Oxford ochre1827 Indian yellow1831 Italian pink1835 Montpellier yellow1835 Turner1835 quercitron lake1837 jaune brillant1851 zinc chromate1851 zinc sulphide1851 brush-gold1861 zooxanthin1868 Oxford chrome1875 aureolin1879 cadmium yellow1879 Cassel yellow1882 Neapolitan yellow1891 zinc chrome1892 Mars1899 jaune jonquille1910 1891 T. E. Thorpe Dict. Appl. Chem. II. 692/2 Neapolitan Yellow. 1898 E. Young Kingdom of Yellow Robe xx. 391 The pale Neapolitan yellow colour of the iris of the eye. 1999 Financial Times (Nexis) 2 Jan. 18 Two vaguely classical buildings in Pompeiian red and Neapolitan yellow. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.c1425
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