单词 | thracian |
释义 | Thraciann.adj. A. n. a. A native or inhabitant of Thrace, in antiquity a region to the north-east of Macedonia, and now comprising European Turkey, southern Bulgaria, and the region of Thrace in north-east Greece. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > ancient peoples of Greece and the Aegean > [noun] > person Hellene1482 Pelasgianc1487 Ionian1542 Minyan1566 Minyae1567 Thracian1569 Ionic1577 Hellenian1598 Lapith1607 Minoan1902 Keftian1903 Thraco-Phrygian1946 1569 T. Stocker tr. Diodorus Siculus Hist. Successors Alexander 105 Aboute two thousand Mercenarie Grekes, and so many Thracians. 1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. 263 The Sordiscans were of all the Thracians the most sauage. 1653 H. Cogan tr. Diodorus Siculus Hist. 251 Having subdued the Thracians and taken the City. 1875 Encycl. Brit. III. 854/1 In the earliest times of history Bœotia was inhabited by various tribes, such as the Aonians, Temmicians, Thracians, [etc.]. 1949 Oxf. Classical Dict. 901/2 The Thracians were not without a native culture. 1976 Daily Tel. 31 Aug. 6 A major archaeological discovery..has been made in Bulgaria. Knowledge of the Thracians is advanced substantially. 1982 K. Follett Man from St. Petersburg ix. 178 ‘I wonder how the Thracians would feel about all this.’ ‘They would rather belong to Russia than Turkey.’ b. The language of the ancient Thracians, an Indo-European language thought to be related to Phrygian or Illyrian. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > postulated as early Indo-European Pelasgic1767 Phrygian1793 Thracian1879 Pelasgian1925 1879 Academy XV. 99/1 It is still doubted by..philologists whether Albanian should be classed as an Aryan language... However.., I am quite willing to allow that it is..a descendant of the ancient Illyrian or Thracian, and I will not quarrel with anyone who wishes to call the latter Pelasgian. 1933 C. D. Buck Compar. Gram. Greek & Latin 14 Thracian is known from proper names and glosses, and there is one obscure inscription believed to be Thracian. 1962 A. J. Beattie in Wace & Stubbings Compan. to Homer x. 312 From the Hellespont to Chalcidice most of the inhabitants spoke Thracian. 1972 W. B. Lockwood Panorama Indo-European Lang. 172 At the time of its greatest known extent, in antiquity, Thracian was spoken throughout the eastern half of the Balkan Peninsula and stretched northwards into the Central European Plain. B. adj. Of or pertaining to Thrace. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > Greece > [adjective] > regions of Greece Macedonc1450 Olympian1523 Ionian?1556 Macedonian1556 Achaean1567 Peloponnesian1569 Molossian1587 Thessalian1594 Thracian1594 Olympic1597 Argive1598 Attic1599 isthmian1603 Pharsalian1605 Aonian1607 Attical1610 Phocian1614 Messenianc1615 Marathonian1623 Bœotic1851 Athoan1869 Thraco-Illyrian1931 Athonite1963 1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus i. i. 138 The selfe same Gods that armde the Queene of Troy With opportunitie of sharpe reuenge Vpon the Thracian Tyrant in his Tent. View more context for this quotation 1594 T. Kyd tr. R. Garnier Cornelia iii. ii. 49 Stoute Thracian Mars. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 34 The Race Of that wilde Rout that tore the Thracian Bard In Rhodope. View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vi, in tr. Virgil Wks. 388 The Thracian Bard..There stands conspicuous in his flowing Vest. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xxvi. 593 Orders were immediately dispatched to the civil and military governors of the Thracian diocese. a1822 P. B. Shelley Cyclops in Posthumous Poems (1824) 343 And when the Thracian wind pours down the snow, I wrap my body in the skins of beasts. 1848 Rep. 17th Meeting Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1847 266 The second family is the Thracian or Illyrian, once spread on the Dnieper, the Hellespont, and in Asia Minor. 1920 Glasgow Herald 12 May 9 Several of the Thracian harbours now under Greek sovereignty..are to be free. 1920 Glasgow Herald 27 July 7 To-day at dawn the Thracian Army launched its offensive. 1949 Oxf. Classical Dict. 901/2 Greek recruiting officers (especially in the fourth century) enlisted Thracian ‘peltasto’ or light-armed fighters. 1977 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 125 485/1 The nearest parallels which we can refer to are two helmets of the so-called ‘Thracian’ type. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < |
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