单词 | sicanian |
释义 | Sicanianadj.n. A. adj. a. Sicilian. poetic. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Italians > [adjective] > Sicily Siciliana1616 Sicanian1647 Sicel1895 Siculan1975 1647 A. Cowley Coldness in Mistress iv Alphæus found not a more secret trace, His lov'd Sicanian Fountain to embrace. 1795 W. S. Landor Gebir vi. 173 And now Sicanian Etna rose to view. 1875 W. Morris tr. Virgil Æneids v. 24 The way..To brother-land of Eryx leal and safe Sicanian port. b. Archaeology. Denoting the Neolithic period in Sicily. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [adjective] > of prehistoric periods prolepticala1646 ante-historical1724 ante-historic1828 lacustrine1830 palaeotherian1831 prehistoric1832 Siwalik1836 megalithic1839 subarctic1846 meta-historical1854 prehistorical1854 lithic1862 protolithic1863 Archaeolithic1865 lacustrian1865 Palaeolithic1865 Mesolithic1866 Hallstatt1869 microlithic1872 palaeocosmic1875 Silurian1875 Miolithic1877 archilithic1879 eneolithic1886 palaeolithical1887 Solutrian1888 eolithic1890 Hallstattian1893 Chellean1894 pre-Palaeolithic1894 palaeolithoid1896 protolithic1896 Siculian1896 Siculic1896 Azilian1899 Acheulean1901 Villanova1901 chalcolithic1902 sub-Neolithic1903 Mesvinian1905 protoneolithic1906 Sicanian1909 Siculan1909 Aurignacian1914 Getulian1914 Châtelperron1915 epipalaeolithic1921 Creswellian1926 Capsian1928 Villanovan1928 Chelleo-Acheulean1930 Abbevillian1934 Swiderian1936 dryas1946 Shamvaian1947 Mazovian1965 Devensian1968 talayotic1974 1909 T. E. Peet Stone & Bronze Ages Italy & Sicily v. 123 By Professor Orsi..the pre-Hellenic period in the island, excluding the palaeolithic, is divided into five divisions. To the first of these he gives the name Sicanian; the other four are called respectively First, Second, Third and Fourth Siculan periods. 1957 Encycl. Brit. XX. 603/1 The term Sicanian is applied to that period of the Stone Age which followed the palaeolithic period exemplified in the remarkable rock engravings of the cave near Palermo. c. Of or pertaining to the Sicans. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > ancient people of Sicily > [adjective] Sicel1887 Sicanian1911 1911 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 20/1 The most important of the towns to which a Sicanian origin can be with certainty assigned..are: Hyccara..; Omphakē..; and Camicus. B. n. = Sican n. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > ancient people of Sicily > [noun] Sicanian1629 Sicel1838 Sican1887 1629 T. Hobbes tr. Thucydides Eight Bks. Peloponnesian Warre vi. 350 After them, the first that appear to have dwelt therein, are the Sicanians. 1876 F. Tozer Classical Geogr. x. 117 The original inhabitants of Sicily were two tribes, the Sicanians in the west, and the Sicels in the east, both of whom belonged to the same Graeco-Italian stock as the Greeks themselves. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.1629 |
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