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单词 Celtic
释义

Celt /kelt or selt/ also Kelt, etc /kelt/

noun
  1. A Gaul (historical)
  2. Extended to include members of other Celtic-speaking or recently Celtic-speaking peoples, esp the inhabitants of parts of Britain, Ireland and NW France
ORIGIN: L Celtae; Gr Keltoi or Keltai

Celtˈic adjective

  1. Relating to the Celts
  2. Of a branch of the Indo-European family of languages including Breton, Welsh, Cornish, Irish, Gaelic, Manx
noun
  1. A Celt
  2. The Celtic branch of languages

Celtˈicism noun

A Celtic idiom or custom

Celtˈicist noun

An expert or specialist in Celtic language and/or culture

Celtomāˈnia noun

Celtic cross noun

A Latin cross, carved in the style common to the Celts, Scandinavians and Northumbrian Angles and used conventionally for Christian memorials, etc, with a broad circle around the point of intersection of the crossbar and the upright, sometimes miscalled Runic cross

Celtic fringe noun

An offensive term applied to Wales, Ireland and the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, which have different cultural, social and political characteristics from the rest of the British Isles

Celtic Sea noun

The area of sea to the south of Ireland and west of Cornwall

P-Celtic and Q-Celtic

(relating to) respectively, those Celtic languages in which the sound /kw/ became /p/ and those in which it became /k/ (written c)

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