单词 | sabine |
释义 | Sabinen.2 Sabine gull n. (also Sabine's gull) Xema sabinii, an Arctic gull with a forked tail, grey head, and black collar.First named Larus sabini in honour of Sir Edward Sabine by his brother Joseph Sabine in 1818 ( Trans. Linn. Soc. 12 522). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Laridae (gulls and terns) > [noun] > member of genus Larus (gull) > larus sabini (Sabine's gull) xeme1836 Sabine gull1852 1852 P. C. Sutherland Jrnl. Voy. Baffin's Bay II. 88 Sabine and ivory gulls, and other birds,..were on their flight up the Channel. 1886 Code Nomencl. & Check-list N. Amer. Birds (Amer. Ornithologists' Union) 91 (heading) Sabine's Gull. 1958 Evening Telegram (St. John's, Newfoundland) 6 May 30/5 Few people have the opportunity to see Sabine's gulls as they rarely come south. 1972 S. Burnford One Woman's Arctic ii. 43 Once only I saw a solitary sabine. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1982; most recently modified version published online March 2022). Sabineadj.n.1 Historical. A. adj. a. Of or pertaining to the Sabines: see B. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > ancient people of Italy > [adjective] Tuscan1513 Vestinian1578 Oscian1598 Sabine1600 Marrucine1601 Volscian1601 Ausonian1607 Marsian1614 Marrucian1661 Oscan1661 Paelignian1661 Samnite1753 Samnitic1753 Sabellian1841 Marrucinian1863 Venetic1880 Sabinian1902 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. i. 8 And the youth of Rome upon a token and watch-word given, fell on every side to carrie away the Sabine maidens. 1606 B. Jonson Hymenaei 288 The Speare, which (in the Sabine tongue) was called Curis. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis viii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 459 The Rape of Sabine Dames. 1756 C. Smart tr. Horace Satires i. ix, in tr. Horace Wks. (1826) II. 75 An old Sabine sorceress. 1784 W. Cowper Let. 3 July (1981) II. 257 I may..refresh my Spirits by a little intercourse with the Mantuan and the Sabine Bard. 1822 M. Wilmot Jrnl. 19 Apr. in More Lett. (1935) 165 We set out..to seek for Horace's Sabine Farm at the back of Mt Lucretiles. 1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto IX vii. 8 You, my Lord Duke!..half a Million for your Sabine farm Is rather dear! 1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands I. 220 The..valley of the Hernici..separates the Sabine heights from the group of mountains anciently inhabited by the Volscians. 1908 O. Crawford in 19th Cent. Jan. 69 Liquor that Horace drank and sang of on his Sabine farm. b. Of or pertaining to the Sabine language. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [adjective] > Indo-European > Italic > Osco-Umbrian Vestinian1578 Oscian1600 Paelignian1661 Oscan1797 Umbrian1864 Marsian1883 Sabine1888 Osco-Umbrian1894 Oscan-Umbrian1895 1888 J. Wright tr. K. Brugmann Elem. Compar. Gram. Indo-Germanic Lang. I. 9 Of the Volscian, Picentine, Sabine, Aequiculan, Vestinian, Marsian, Pelignian and Marrucinian dialects we have only very scanty remains. 1977 Word 28 7 They are obviously Italic (Sabine), not really Latin words. B. n.1 a. One of a race of ancient Italy who inhabited the central region of the Apennines. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > ancient people of Italy > [noun] Sabinea1387 Tuscana1387 Volscea1387 Samnite1390 Venetian1432 Volscian1513 Marrucian1578 Marsi1578 Marsian1578 Vestinian1578 Tarentine1579 Marrucine1600 Paelignian1600 Sabellian1601 Tyrrhenian1660 Lucanian1709 Tyrrhene1736 Oscan1740 Marrucinian1863 Oscian1875 Ausonian1882 Osco-Umbrian1894 Oscan-Umbrian1960 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 61 Tacius kyng of Sabyns was i-slawe by assent of Romulus. 1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. i. iv. 29 Ane huge nowmer of Sabinis with þare wyiffis, barnis, & servandis. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 65 The Sabines..dwell hard by the Veline lakes. 1783 W. Gordon tr. Livy Rom. Hist. (1823) I. xxxviii. 70 The Sabines fled to the Mountains. 1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands I. 46 The Sabines, as it is..conjectured, had a settlement covering the Capitoline and Quirinal Hills. b. transferred in allusion to the proverb Sabini quod volunt somniant, ‘the Sabines dream what they will’ (Festus). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > [noun] > fanciful person dreamera1425 fantast1588 fantastical1589 fantastic1598 maggot-monger1607 Sabine1610 maggot-patea1640 wham1691 whim1712 visionarya1719 imaginariana1729 ideologue1815 ideologist1818 fancier1828 idealist1829 abstractionist1844 phantasist1864 dreamsmith1873 luftmensch1902 cuckoo-lander1916 fantasist1923 pie-in-the-skyer1973 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 542 Grimsby, which our Sabins or conceited persons dreaming what they list, and following their owne fansies, will have to be so called of one Grime a merchant. c. The Italic language of the Sabines. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > postulated Italo-Celtic > Osco-Umbrian > Osco-Umbrian languages Oscan1813 Sabine1834 Oscian1851 Umbrian1854 Samnite1859 Volscian1859 Paelignian1897 Sabellian1904 Marrucinian1933 Marsian1933 Vestinian1939 Marsic1974 Marrucine1995 1834 W. Gell Topogr. Rome II. 381 Cata, in Sabine, says Varro, means pointed. 1933 C. D. Buck Compar. Gram. Greek & Latin 24 The Oscan–Umbrian group..includes also the minor dialects of central Italy, as Paelignian, Marrucinian, Vestinian, Volscian, Marsian, Sabine, [etc.]. 1939 L. H. Gray Found. Lang. 334 The third group, conventionally termed Sabellian, occupies a position midway between Oscan and Umbrian, but its remains are lamentably scanty. Here belong Paelignian, Marrucinian, Vestinian, Volscian, Marsian, Aequian, and Sabine. 1974 R. A. Hall External Hist. Romance Lang. 48 The Sabellic dialects..: Sabine..; Paelignian, Marrucinian, Vestine, and Marsic in the central Apennines east of Rome; and Volscian. d. Sabine wine. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > Italian wines > [noun] vernagec1386 vernagellec1460 tear1526 Romanescoa1566 mountflascon1566 Lacryma Christi1590 Falern1601 Surrentine1601 Liatico1622 Palermo1632 verdea1637 verdé1647 Montefiascone1658 Montepulciano1673 vino santo1686 Setin1693 Florence1707 Falernian1726 Lacrima1750 Mamertine1782 Aleatico1805 vernaccia1824 Cannonau1828 Chianti1833 Orvieto wine1846 Sabine1863 Barolo1875 Capri1877 Prosecco1881 moscato1903 Valpolicella1903 Recioto1905 spumante1908 Lambrusco1934 Soave1934 Frascati1935 Sassella1935 Amarone1964 Brunello di Montalcino1964 Trebbiano1965 vinsanto1965 brunello1966 1863 G. J. Whyte-Melville Gladiators x. 153 I talked myself well-nigh hoarse, and stayed out the drinking of two flagons of sour Sabine to boot. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.21852adj.n.1a1387 |
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