单词 | teuton |
释义 | Teutonn. 1. In plural (usually in Latin form Teutones) applied to an ancient people of unknown race, said to have inhabited the Cimbric Chersonesus in Jutland c320 b.c., who, in company with the Cimbri, in 113–101 b.c. devastated Gaul and threatened the Roman republic. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > Germanic people > [noun] Teutons1728 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Teutonic, something belonging to the Teutones, an ancient People of Germany, inhabiting chiefly along the Coasts of the German Ocean. 1839 Penny Cycl. XIV. 420/2 The consul Manilius and the proconsul Cæpio were defeated by the Teutones and Cimbri in Gaul. 1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar v. 41 Both Teutons and Cimbri were Germans. 2. A German; in extended ethnic sense, any member of the races or peoples speaking a Germanic or Teutonic language; in Great Britain and its colonies, and the United States, often used like ‘Saxon’ in opposition to ‘Celt’, and in avoidance of ‘German’ in its modern political sense. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of Germany > [noun] Almainc1330 Dutchmana1387 Germana1387 High Dutchmana1450 Hans1569 Muff1585 Teutonic1638 Herr1653 Dutcher1671 mein Herr1796 Teuton1833 Dutchy1834 sour-crout1841 Fritz1887 sausage1890 Heinie1904 Boche1914 Fritzie1915 Hun1915 Jerry1916 sauerkraut-eater1918 sausage-eater1918 sale Boche1919 Volksdeutsche1937 1833 D. Macmillan in Hughes Mem. (1883) ii. 20 I am very glad that my mother is a Teuton. 1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands III. 221 These isolated Teutons constituted under the Venetian government a sort of smuggling free state. 1900 A. Lang in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 543/2 He is a partisan of the pure Teuton. Derivatives ˈTeutondom n. the land or domain of the Teutons, Germany; the German people or state. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > Germanic region > [noun] Teutondom1880 pan-Germany1902 1880 J. S. Stallybrass tr. J. Grimm Teutonic Mythol. I. 103 Those divinities of whom there is least trace to be found in the rest of Teutondom. 1889 R. B. Anderson tr. V. Rydberg Teutonic Mythol. 22 Did they look upon themselves as aborigines or as immigrants in Teutondom? Teutoˈnesque adj. [-esque suffix] of Teutonic character. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [adjective] > Indo-European > Germanic Germanic1711 Teutonic1728 Tudesque1801 Teutonesque1840 Germanistic1848 1840 G. Darley in Wks. of Beaumont & Fletcher I. Introd. p. xlvi A Teutonesque consonantal language like ours, will, however polished, want sufficient melodiousness. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < |
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