单词 | tyrrhenian |
释义 | Tyrrhenianadj.n. A. adj. Of or pertaining to the Tyrrheni or their country; Etruscan, Etrurian. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > Italy > [adjective] > ancient parts Tyrrhenea1387 Latinc1400 Albana1522 Latian1598 Picene1600 Picenian1619 Ligurian1632 Praenestine1683 Tyrrhenian1797 Picentine1888 1797 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 327 Æneas..steered his course for Italy across the Tyrrhenian sea. 1857 S. Birch Hist. Anc. Pottery (1858) II. 77 The amphora called Tyrrhenian differs only in its general proportion from the two preceding kinds. B. n. One of the Tyrrheni; an Etruscan. Tyrrhenian Sea, the sea lying between the mainland of Italy and the islands of Corsica, Sardinia, and Sicily. 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 1660 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. III. i. 1 Suidas saith, That Pythagoras was..by birth a Tyrrhenian. 1711 J. Clarke tr. Grotius Truth Christian Relig. ii. xii. 112 (note) [See] Diodorus, Book v, concerning the Tyrrhenians. 1788 J. Lemprière Classical Dict. Mezentius, a king of the Tyrrhenians when Æneas came into Italy. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < adj.n.1660 |
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