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单词 peloponnesian
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Peloponnesiann.adj.

Brit. /ˌpɛləpəˈniːzj(ə)n/, /ˌpɛləpəˈniːʒn/, U.S. /ˈˌpɛləpəˈniʒ(ə)n/, /ˈˌpɛləpəˈniʃ(ə)n/
Forms: late Middle English– Peloponnesian, 1500s Peloponensian, 1500s–1700s Peloponesian.
Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Or (ii) a borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin Peloponnēsius ; Greek Πελοποννήσιος , -an suffix.
Etymology: < (i) classical Latin Peloponnēsius of or relating to the Peloponnese, also Peloponnēsiī (plural) natives or inhabitants of the Peloponnese, or its etymon (ii) ancient Greek Πελοποννήσιος of or relating to the Peloponnese, also Πελοποννήσιοι (plural) natives or inhabitants of the Peloponnese ( < Πελοπόννησος (classical Latin Peloponnēsus ) the Peloponnese + -ιος , suffix forming adjectives) + -an suffix. With the Peloponnesian war (see sense B.) compare Hellenistic Greek Πελοποννήσιος πόλεμος . Compare Middle French Peloponnesiens , plural (1545 in the passage translated in quot. 1550 at sense A.).With form Peloponensian compare classical Latin Peloponnensis (also Peloponensis ; alteration of Peloponnēsius ; compare -ēnsis -ese suffix). Compare Old English Pelopensium Peloponnesians, attested twice as an ethnonym in the Old English translation of Orosius Hist. (in both attestations apparently as a nominative plural although the form is clearly after the Latin genitive plural form Pelopensium (a scribal error for Peloponnensium), which appears in several of the Latin manuscripts at the corresponding point.
A. n.
A native or inhabitant of the Peloponnese (or Peloponnesus), the peninsula forming the southernmost part of the Greek mainland.
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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
c1487 J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica iv. 275 Oonly the Boecians and the Peloponnesians, and non other, be permytted and licenced to take away of this golde with theym.
1550 T. Nicolls tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War (title) The hystory..of the warre, whiche was betwene the Peloponesians [Fr. Peloponnesiens] and the Athenyans.
1629 T. Hobbes tr. Thucydides Eight Bks. Peloponnesian Warre i. 14 This Warre, which began from the time that the Athenians and Peloponnesians brake the League.
a1680 S. Butler Satires & Misc. Poetry & Prose (1928) 20 Those People had been long reputed Of all the Peloponesians, the most stupid.
1709 I. Littlebury tr. Herodotus Hist. II. ix. 370 When the Lacedemonians were advanc'd to the Isthmus, and encamp'd with their Army; the other Peloponesians..thought they could not stay behind without Disgrace.
1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations II. v. i. 295 The Peloponesians, Thucidides observes, generally left the field in the summer and returned home to reap the harvest.
1827 J. R. Major Questions Mitford's Hist. Greece 277 The answer of the Pythoness was understood to import that the Peloponnesians would be victorious.
1849 G. Grote Hist. Greece VI. ii. xlviii. 145 The Peloponnesians were a self-working population with few slaves.
1911 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 73/2 In 429 the Peloponnesians were deterred by the plague from invading Attica.
1991 E. Rawson Spartan Trad. in European Thought ix. 120 In the fourteenth century the Emperor John Cantacuzene complained that the Peloponnesians neglected all the laws of Lycurgus.
B. adj.
Of or relating to the Peloponnese or its inhabitants. Esp. in Peloponnesian war n. Ancient Greek History the war of 431–404 b.c., fought against Athens by Sparta and its allies in the region.The war was occasioned largely by Spartan opposition to the Delian League, and ended in the total defeat of Athens and the transfer, for a brief period, of the leadership of Greece to Sparta.
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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 > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Greeks > [adjective] > parts of
Peloponnesian1569
Moreot1823
1569 J. Sanford tr. H. C. Agrippa Of Vanitie Artes & Sci. lxiii. f. 92v Aspasia..for whose loue, and her women seruauntes rauished by the Megarensians, as Aristophanes saithe, Pericles made the Peloponensian warre [L. bellum Peloponnesiacum].
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 184 Pericles..was thought the only original cause & author of the Peloponnesian warres.
1640 J. Howell Δενδρολογια 200 I have reade that the true cause of the Peloponnesian Warre..was the over-growing greatnesse of Athens.
1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I iii. ii. 30 Thucydides..could know nothing..of things before the Peloponnesian war, by reason of the Longinquitie of Time.
1742 W. Clarke & W. Bowyer tr. J. Trapp Lect. Poetry xxiii. 276 This Liberty of Abuse and Defamation, was allow'd chiefly to the Chorus, and was most in Use during the Democracy of the Athenians, especially in the Time of the Peloponnesian War.
1752 D. Hume Polit. Disc. x. 226 When they were all chas'd into town, by the invasion of their territory during the Peloponnesian war, the city was not able to contain them.
1808 W. Mitford Hist. Greece (new ed.) II. xv. 95 The Athenians..a little before the beginning of the Peloponnesian war, sent Phormion with thirty triremes to their assistance.
1863 T. Chase Hellas 185 On the left you have the blue Ægean..and beyond in the distance the Peloponnesian hills.
1890 C. Oman Hist. Greece xxvii. 293 Great battles on shore were very rare during the Peloponnesian war.
1959 N. G. L. Hammond Hist. Greece 167 Modern scholars have called it [sc. the Spartan Alliance], rather misleadingly, ‘the Peloponnesian League’.
1976 Classical Q. New Ser. 26 233 It is doubtful whether the Peloponnesian detachment was dispatched during the actual celebration of the Olympic games.
2004 Internat. Oil Daily (Nexis) 25 Feb. This branch pipeline will have an overall 1.5 Bcm/yr capacity, which Depa says will be enough to cover future anticipated needs of the entire Peloponnesian peninsula, southwest of Athens.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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