Homeric
形容词 adj.
英 /həʊˈmɛɹɪk/
美 /hoʊˈmɛɹɪk/
英文释义
形容词 adj.
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Resembling or relating to the epic poetry of Homer.
— The warmeſt admirers of the great Mantuan poet [Virgil] can extol him for little more than the ſkill with which he has, by making his hero both a traveller and a warrior, united the beauties of the Iliad and the Odyſſey in one compoſition: yet his judgment was perhaps ſometimes overborne, by his avarice of the Homeric treaſures; and, for fear of ſuffering a ſparkling ornament to be loſt, he has inſerted it where it cannot ſhine with its original ſplendor.
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Of or pertaining to Greece during the Bronze Age, as described in Homer's works.
— Women are often carried away by force; and the whole tribe, as in Homeric times, rise to avenge the wrong.
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Fit to be immortalized in poetry by Homer; epic, heroic.
— At home he [John Ruskin] looks young & rompish at the meeting, at Hunts meeting he looked old & ungainly, but his power & eloquence as a speaker were homeric.
词源
From Latin homēricus (“of or pertaining to Homer; Homeric”), from Ancient Greek Ὁμηρικός (Homērikós), from Ὅμηρος (Hómēros, “Homer”) (possibly from ὅμηρος (hómēros, “hostage”), a nickname) + -ῐκός (-ĭkós, suffix forming relational adjectives) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *-kos (suffix forming relational adjectives)); analysable as Homer + -ic.
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