单词 | ragusan |
释义 | Ragusann.adj. A. n. 1. A native or inhabitant of Ragusa (Dubrovnik). Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of former Yugoslavia > [noun] > parts of Ragusian1569 Ragusan1585 Bosnian1594 Bosniak1680 Montenegrin1779 Herzegovinian1849 Montenegran1857 Herzegovinese1862 Serbo-Croatian1862 Istrian1880 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. xix. 53 v I fel familiarly acquainted with an Eunuche of the late Barbarousse called zaferaga of nation a Ragusan, being a man of great discretion. 1615 E. Grimeston tr. P. d'Avity Estates 542 The soile is by nature barren; but the Ragousans bestow so much labour and industrie to make it good, as it yeelds them oyle, wine, and excellent fruits. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. ii. 66 The Venetians, Ragusans, and Marseillians have great handling with them. 1791 tr. G. Mariti Trav. through Cyprus, Syria, & Palestine I. iv. 77 There are people belonging to six Europeans [sic] nations: French, English, Tuscans, Neopolitans, Venetians, and Ragusans. 1806 Times 2 Sept. 2/1 The French, in conjunction with the Ragusans, fell upon the advanced guard of the Montenegrins. 1842 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 5 64 The foreign trade was in the hands of the French, the Genoese, and the Ragusans, by whom foreign manufactures were exchanged for Sicilian produce. 1877 Times 20 Dec. 3/1 Every house has its shop on the ground-floor, to remind the Ragusans that their ancestors were merchants. 1905 Westm. Gaz. 29 Apr. 4/1 The advent of Napoleon I. early in the nineteenth century deprived Ragusans for ever of their freedom. 1934 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 12 Oct. 1/3 Even to this day the people do not call themselves Dalmatians. They are Ragusans. 1988 Renaissance Stud. 2 161 In 1383 he was appointed chancellor of Ragusa ‘honorato emolumento’;..he left that city about four years later, to the sorrow of the Ragusans. 2003 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 6 July 12 Most Ragusans spoke a Slav tongue in everyday life, while the language of law and government was Latin or Italian. 2. An extinct dialect of the Romance language Dalmatian, formerly used by natives of Ragusa. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > postulated Italo-Celtic > Romance > Dalmatian Dalmatian1911 Ragusan1933 Vegliote1933 1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. iv. 61 The Dalmatian is extinct: one of the dialects, Ragusan, died out in the fifteenth century; another, Veliote, survived into the nineteenth. 1967 D. S. Parlett Short Dict. Lang. 38 Ragusan extinct since beginning C17. B. adj. Of or relating to Ragusa, esp. to the former Republic of Ragusa (a1400–1808). Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > named cities or towns > [adjective] > in former Yugoslavia Ragusian1585 Ragusan1632 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. vii. 323 I was aduised by a Ragusan Consul, to keepe my stomacke hot..and to liue soberly, with a temperate diet. 1820 N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 303 The leakiness of their vessel compels them to quit it on the Dalmatian coast for a Ragusan, and the suspicion of the plague resting on that subjects them to a quarantine on arriving at Trieste. 1867 F. S. Cozzens Sayings Dr. Bushwhacker 46 Mr. Daniel Edwards, a Turkey merchant, brought from Smyrna to London one Pasqua Rosee, a Ragusan youth, who prepared this drink for him every morning. 1900 Eng. Hist. Rev. 15 786 Many of these [dangers] could be avoided by the agency of Venetian and Ragusan ships and by Venetian escort to the borders of the Grisons. 1932 Times Lit. Suppl. 14 Jan. 27/1 If all the Ragusan men knew Italian, most of the ladies to whom their love poems were dedicated spoke only Slovinski. 1971 Textile Hist. 2 10 In 1420 the Ragusan government arranged for a colony of traders from the Italian textile town of Prato to live in Ragusa. 2003 Sunday Tel. (Sydney) (Nexis) 14 Sept. 47 Salt was so valuable that Ragusan law required the warehouse keys be guarded round the clock. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1585 |
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