Semiticadj.n.

Brit.

/sᵻˈmɪtɪk/, U.S.

/səˈmɪdɪk/

Forms: 1800s Semmetic, 1800s– Semitic. Also with lower-case initial.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; modelled on a German lexical item. Etymons: Semite n., -ic suffix.

Etymology: < Semite n. + -ic suffix, after German semitisch (1781 with reference to a family of languages: A. L. Schlözer, in Eichhorns Repertorium für biblische u. morgenländische Litteratur 8 161; 1786 or earlier with reference to a family of peoples; 1879 or earlier (in anti-Semitic discourse) in the specific sense ‘Jewish’). Compare Shemitic adj., Shemitic n.Compare post-classical Latin Semiticus (1663 or earlier), and also ( < German) French sémitique (1810 or earlier). With the specific use as noun denoting a family of languages (see sense B. 1) compare German das Semitische (1818 or earlier).

A. adj.

a. Designating or belonging to a family of languages of which Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, Ethiopic, and ancient Assyrian are members.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > languages of the world > Afro-Asiatic > [adjective] > Semitic

Shemite1791

Semitic1800

Shemitic1822

Shemitish1822

1800 Brit. Critic Feb. 217 The pronominal suffixes annexed to the Verbs in imitation of the Semitic, and other Asiatic dialects.

1877 W. Smith & H. Wace Dict. Christian Biogr. I. 470/1 (Chosroes) There is a large Semitic element in the Pehlvi language.

1922 Evening Independent (Massillon, Ohio) 18 Oct. 7/3 The Semitic languages may have arisen as some specialized proto-Hamitic group.

2018 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 4 Aug. a19 Cushitic is a ‘cousin’ of the Semitic language group.

b. Concerned with the Semitic languages, as in Semitic scholar, Semitic studies, Semitic grammar, Semitic philology, etc.

ΚΠ

1835 Jrnl. Royal Asiatic Soc. 2 149 An event took place..which is worthy of the attention of all those studying Islamology or Semitic philology.

1850 J. W. Donaldson New Cratylus (ed. 2) §100. 150 These arguments of the great Semitic scholar have been violently combated by one of his countrymen.

1872 A. H. Sayce Assyrian Gram. 52 The Assyrian verb is rich in tenses. It possesses a Permansive, or Perfect as it is generally called in Semitic grammars, of comparatively rare occurrence in the historic inscriptions.

1916 Amer. Jrnl. Semitic Lang. & Lit. July 225 The unfortunate Sumerian controversy..in which one man was able to hold the field against the rest of Semitic scholarship for twenty-five years.

2010 V. Sasson Ess. from Occupied Holy Land 77 He had pursued Semitic studies at Oxford University, not to gain a better knowledge and appreciation of Judaism, but more probably to understand his own religion.

a. Of or relating to the Semites.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > Semite > [adjective]

Shemite1791

Semitic1814

Shemitic1841

Semite1855

Hamito-Semitic1867

Semito-Hamitic1875

the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > Semite > [adjective] > Jew

JudeisheOE

Judewishc1175

Hebrewisha1250

Hebraicc1384

Hebrew1483

Jewish?1531

Judaical1532

Israelitish1535

Judaic1569

Hebraical1601

Israelitical1609

Shemite1791

Semitic1814

Israelitic1836

Anglo-Jewish1843

Hebraistic1846

Israelite1851

Jewy1853

Yiddisher1877

kike1904

non-Aryan1924

mocky1937

Yahudi1959

1814 A. von Humboldt in New Monthly Mag. Nov. 311/2 The Cilicians, of Semitic origin.

1835 J. B. Robertson tr. F. von Schlegel Philos. of Hist. (1846) vi. 206 The people of the Semitic race.

1874 E. M. Epstein tr. D. Chwolson Semitic Nations 30 Whether Jewish music also, I mean that of Meyerbeer, Mendelsohn-Bartholdy, Halevy and other Jewish composers, has a specifically Semitic character, i. e. want of grand ideas and yet wonderful elaboration of detail, this I dare not assert, not being a musician myself.

1920 Times Lit. Suppl. 18 Nov. 756/2 The temple chants are full of the woes of the land when these Semitic hordes upset the old régime.

2018 Sunday Guardian (India) (Nexis) 28 July In Semitic and Asian religions the poisonous snake is representative of the ego.

b. Jewish. Frequently derogatory.

ΚΠ

1881 19th Cent. Feb. 347 Reymond harps upon the same theme. ‘The Semitic character [Ger. dem semitischen Charakter]’, he says, ‘is the antithesis of all ideality; in the commercial as well as in the domestic life of the Jews, the prevailing influence is selfishness.’

1886 W. J. Tucker Life E. Europe 198 The Church of Rome will never countenance semitic innovations of any sort. The Catholic party must be propped up by staunch opponents to semitism.

1917 T. S. Eliot Let. 31 Oct. (1988) I. 205 I have just been invited by a certain Madame Vandervelde..to contribute to a reading of poets, and what a poor lot they are! the only one who has any merit is a youth named Siegfried Sassoon (semitic).

1981 P. Carey Bliss v. 202 The man had..small wire-framed spectacles on an almost Semitic nose.

1996 Frank 18 Dec. 10/1 Patrons of the Oakdale Golf and Country Club, Toronto's toniest teehouse for the rich and Semitic, are still buzzing about the Kitchener gazillionaire's latest vendetta.

B. n.

1. The Semitic family of languages; (occasionally) spec. the Semitic language of Babylon as opposed to Sumerian.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > languages of the world > Afro-Asiatic > [noun] > Semitic

Semitic1831

Semiticism1852

Canaanitic1881

1831 J. C. Prichard Eastern Origin Celtic Nations 189 The three principal branches into which the idioms belonging to this class divide themselves, viz. the Hebrew or the dialect of Palestine and Phœnice, the Arabic, and the Aramæan or northern Semitic spread over Syria and Mesopotamia.

1836 J. Nicholson tr. G. H. A. Ewald Gram. Hebrew Lang. ii. ii. §434 An important regularity.., which is much more faithfully preserved in Semitic than in our languages.

1875 W. D. Whitney Life & Growth Lang. xii. 251 The scale of dialectic differences is much less in Semitic than in Indo-European.

1899 Sir H. H. Howorth in Eng. Hist. Rev. Oct. 626 Written in the primitive language of Babylonia and in Semitic.

1972 N. K. Sandars Epic of Gilgamesh (rev. ed.) 38 Only enough remains to give us one of the rare hints of Eden-garden which survive in old Semitic.

2018 Daily Nation (Kenya) (Nexis) 6 Apr. In Bantu, Nilotic, Semitic [etc.].., there are no equivalents of such grammatical articles as a, an and the.

2. A Semite. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > Semite > [noun]

Semite1598

Shemite1650

Semitic1858

1858 Crayon Jan. 13/2 It is in the religious..order that the Semitics have exercised their influence.

1886 Athenæum 21 Aug. 238 [Pauli's] view that the Etruscans were neither Indo-Europeans nor Semitics.

1935 Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Dec. 824/4 Attempts to exclude out-breeding, as, for example, with the Semitics, can but end in diminished sex-differentiation.

2015 Islamic Stud. 54 98 Semitics when joined with Sumerians produced Babylonian civilization.

Derivatives

Seˈmiticism n. = Semitism n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > languages of the world > Afro-Asiatic > [noun] > Semitic

Semitic1831

Semiticism1852

Canaanitic1881

1852 Jrnl. Indian Archipel. & Eastern Asia 6 677 Africa in fact presents examples of new formations produced by the blending of Semiticism and Africanism, and they differ greatly from Iranianism.

1907 Expositor Nov. 434 The number of real Semiticisms is therefore smaller than was supposed.

1908 Spectator 18 Apr. 625/1 Further, he discusses the ‘semiticism’ of the Greek Bible,—what it is, and what it is not.

2013 Forward (Nexis) 27 Dec. 20 The shalom aleykhem/salaam aleykum greeting..probably goes back to an ancient Semiticism that may have existed in other Middle Eastern languages as well.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	semitic
释义	Semiticadj.n. Brit. /sᵻˈmɪtɪk/, U.S. /səˈmɪdɪk/ Forms: 1800s Semmetic, 1800s– Semitic. Also with lower-case initial. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; modelled on a German lexical item. Etymons: Semite n., -ic suffix. Etymology: < Semite n. + -ic suffix, after German semitisch (1781 with reference to a family of languages: A. L. Schlözer, in Eichhorns Repertorium für biblische u. morgenländische Litteratur 8 161; 1786 or earlier with reference to a family of peoples; 1879 or earlier (in anti-Semitic discourse) in the specific sense ‘Jewish’). Compare Shemitic adj., Shemitic n.Compare post-classical Latin Semiticus (1663 or earlier), and also ( < German) French sémitique (1810 or earlier). With the specific use as noun denoting a family of languages (see sense B. 1) compare German das Semitische (1818 or earlier). A. adj. 1. a. Designating or belonging to a family of languages of which Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, Ethiopic, and ancient Assyrian are members. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Afro-Asiatic > [adjective] > Semitic Shemite1791 Semitic1800 Shemitic1822 Shemitish1822 1800 Brit. Critic Feb. 217 The pronominal suffixes annexed to the Verbs in imitation of the Semitic, and other Asiatic dialects. 1877 W. Smith & H. Wace Dict. Christian Biogr. I. 470/1 (Chosroes) There is a large Semitic element in the Pehlvi language. 1922 Evening Independent (Massillon, Ohio) 18 Oct. 7/3 The Semitic languages may have arisen as some specialized proto-Hamitic group. 2018 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 4 Aug. a19 Cushitic is a ‘cousin’ of the Semitic language group. b. Concerned with the Semitic languages, as in Semitic scholar, Semitic studies, Semitic grammar, Semitic philology, etc. ΚΠ 1835 Jrnl. Royal Asiatic Soc. 2 149 An event took place..which is worthy of the attention of all those studying Islamology or Semitic philology. 1850 J. W. Donaldson New Cratylus (ed. 2) §100. 150 These arguments of the great Semitic scholar have been violently combated by one of his countrymen. 1872 A. H. Sayce Assyrian Gram. 52 The Assyrian verb is rich in tenses. It possesses a Permansive, or Perfect as it is generally called in Semitic grammars, of comparatively rare occurrence in the historic inscriptions. 1916 Amer. Jrnl. Semitic Lang. & Lit. July 225 The unfortunate Sumerian controversy..in which one man was able to hold the field against the rest of Semitic scholarship for twenty-five years. 2010 V. Sasson Ess. from Occupied Holy Land 77 He had pursued Semitic studies at Oxford University, not to gain a better knowledge and appreciation of Judaism, but more probably to understand his own religion. 2. a. Of or relating to the Semites. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > Semite > [adjective] Shemite1791 Semitic1814 Shemitic1841 Semite1855 Hamito-Semitic1867 Semito-Hamitic1875 the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > Semite > [adjective] > Jew JudeisheOE Judewishc1175 Hebrewisha1250 Hebraicc1384 Hebrew1483 Jewish?1531 Judaical1532 Israelitish1535 Judaic1569 Hebraical1601 Israelitical1609 Shemite1791 Semitic1814 Israelitic1836 Anglo-Jewish1843 Hebraistic1846 Israelite1851 Jewy1853 Yiddisher1877 kike1904 non-Aryan1924 mocky1937 Yahudi1959 1814 A. von Humboldt in New Monthly Mag. Nov. 311/2 The Cilicians, of Semitic origin. 1835 J. B. Robertson tr. F. von Schlegel Philos. of Hist. (1846) vi. 206 The people of the Semitic race. 1874 E. M. Epstein tr. D. Chwolson Semitic Nations 30 Whether Jewish music also, I mean that of Meyerbeer, Mendelsohn-Bartholdy, Halevy and other Jewish composers, has a specifically Semitic character, i. e. want of grand ideas and yet wonderful elaboration of detail, this I dare not assert, not being a musician myself. 1920 Times Lit. Suppl. 18 Nov. 756/2 The temple chants are full of the woes of the land when these Semitic hordes upset the old régime. 2018 Sunday Guardian (India) (Nexis) 28 July In Semitic and Asian religions the poisonous snake is representative of the ego. b. Jewish. Frequently derogatory. ΚΠ 1881 19th Cent. Feb. 347 Reymond harps upon the same theme. ‘The Semitic character [Ger. dem semitischen Charakter]’, he says, ‘is the antithesis of all ideality; in the commercial as well as in the domestic life of the Jews, the prevailing influence is selfishness.’ 1886 W. J. Tucker Life E. Europe 198 The Church of Rome will never countenance semitic innovations of any sort. The Catholic party must be propped up by staunch opponents to semitism. 1917 T. S. Eliot Let. 31 Oct. (1988) I. 205 I have just been invited by a certain Madame Vandervelde..to contribute to a reading of poets, and what a poor lot they are! the only one who has any merit is a youth named Siegfried Sassoon (semitic). 1981 P. Carey Bliss v. 202 The man had..small wire-framed spectacles on an almost Semitic nose. 1996 Frank 18 Dec. 10/1 Patrons of the Oakdale Golf and Country Club, Toronto's toniest teehouse for the rich and Semitic, are still buzzing about the Kitchener gazillionaire's latest vendetta. B. n. 1. The Semitic family of languages; (occasionally) spec. the Semitic language of Babylon as opposed to Sumerian. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Afro-Asiatic > [noun] > Semitic Semitic1831 Semiticism1852 Canaanitic1881 1831 J. C. Prichard Eastern Origin Celtic Nations 189 The three principal branches into which the idioms belonging to this class divide themselves, viz. the Hebrew or the dialect of Palestine and Phœnice, the Arabic, and the Aramæan or northern Semitic spread over Syria and Mesopotamia. 1836 J. Nicholson tr. G. H. A. Ewald Gram. Hebrew Lang. ii. ii. §434 An important regularity.., which is much more faithfully preserved in Semitic than in our languages. 1875 W. D. Whitney Life & Growth Lang. xii. 251 The scale of dialectic differences is much less in Semitic than in Indo-European. 1899 Sir H. H. Howorth in Eng. Hist. Rev. Oct. 626 Written in the primitive language of Babylonia and in Semitic. 1972 N. K. Sandars Epic of Gilgamesh (rev. ed.) 38 Only enough remains to give us one of the rare hints of Eden-garden which survive in old Semitic. 2018 Daily Nation (Kenya) (Nexis) 6 Apr. In Bantu, Nilotic, Semitic [etc.].., there are no equivalents of such grammatical articles as a, an and the. 2. A Semite. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > Semite > [noun] Semite1598 Shemite1650 Semitic1858 1858 Crayon Jan. 13/2 It is in the religious..order that the Semitics have exercised their influence. 1886 Athenæum 21 Aug. 238 [Pauli's] view that the Etruscans were neither Indo-Europeans nor Semitics. 1935 Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Dec. 824/4 Attempts to exclude out-breeding, as, for example, with the Semitics, can but end in diminished sex-differentiation. 2015 Islamic Stud. 54 98 Semitics when joined with Sumerians produced Babylonian civilization. Derivatives Seˈmiticism n. = Semitism n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Afro-Asiatic > [noun] > Semitic Semitic1831 Semiticism1852 Canaanitic1881 1852 Jrnl. Indian Archipel. & Eastern Asia 6 677 Africa in fact presents examples of new formations produced by the blending of Semiticism and Africanism, and they differ greatly from Iranianism. 1907 Expositor Nov. 434 The number of real Semiticisms is therefore smaller than was supposed. 1908 Spectator 18 Apr. 625/1 Further, he discusses the ‘semiticism’ of the Greek Bible,—what it is, and what it is not. 2013 Forward (Nexis) 27 Dec. 20 The shalom aleykhem/salaam aleykum greeting..probably goes back to an ancient Semiticism that may have existed in other Middle Eastern languages as well. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.1800
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