Mancunian

名词 n. 形容词 adj. 专有名词
/manˈkjuː.nɪ.ən/|/maŋ-/    /mænˈkju.ni.ən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person raised or living in the city of Manchester, England, in the United Kingdom.
    — But the Mancunians are of all men the most disposed to peace. Their name has become a bye-word because they are said to require peace at any price. If the Mancunians are satisfied, for Heaven's sake do not let us put it into their heads that they could gain anything by change.
形容词 adj.
  1. Related or pertaining to Manchester, England, in the United Kingdom.
    — Current among the Britons, the name of Manchester was equally received and retained by the Saxons. […] [M]oſt of the more remarkable objects about the town, at this period, exchanged their Britiſh denominations for Saxon. And even one of the rivers, even the monarch of the Mancunian currents, now reſigned up its original name of Beliſama, and received another; from the marſhes and marſhy meadows, that ſkirt its channel on both ſides in one continued line to the ſea, obtaining the deſcriptive denomination of Merſc-ey, Merſ-ey, or marſhy water.
专有名词
  1. The accent and dialect of English spoken in Manchester and some of its environs.

词形变化

more Mancunian comparative most Mancunian superlative Mancunians plural

词源

词源 1
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From Latin Mancunium (appearing in a 4th-century manuscript of the Antonine Itinerary), an alternative name for or corruption of Mamucium (“name of the Roman fort at what is now Manchester”) + -an, probably modelled after Late Latin mancuniēnsis (“related or pertaining to Mancunium”).
词源 2
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From Latin Mancunium (appearing in a 4th-century manuscript of the Antonine Itinerary), an alternative name for or corruption of Mamucium (“name of the Roman fort at what is now Manchester”) + -an, probably modelled after Late Latin mancuniēnsis (“related or pertaining to Mancunium”).
词源 3
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From Latin Mancunium (appearing in a 4th-century manuscript of the Antonine Itinerary), an alternative name for or corruption of Mamucium (“name of the Roman fort at what is now Manchester”) + -an, probably modelled after Late Latin mancuniēnsis (“related or pertaining to Mancunium”).
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