Scythian

名词 n. 形容词 adj. 专有名词
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An inhabitant of Scythia.
    — 1685, John Norris, (translator), The Institution and Life of Cyrus the Great [Cyropaedia] by Xenophon Book I How far he surpassed them all may be felt if we remember that no Scythian, although the Scythians are reckoned by their myriads, has ever succeeded in dominating a foreign nation […]
形容词 adj.
  1. Of or relating to Scythia (a region of Central Eurasia in the classical era) or its inhabitants.
    — The Scythian collection is designed not just to echo a past civilization, recorded in the classical works of Herodotos and Pliny; it is also intended as a clarion call to the Russians to look to their jewelry heritage and their wealth of precious stones.
专有名词
  1. The Eastern Iranian language of Scythians.
  2. The Proto-Indo-European language. Indo-European-studies
    — Scythian was therefore not the same as modern Dutch, but the ancestral language of the Dutch as well as other neighbouring languages.
  3. An epoch from 251 ± 0.2 to 245 ± 1.5 million years ago, a subdivision of the Early Triassic.

词形变化

more Scythian comparative most Scythian superlative Scythians plural

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English Scythia
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Old French -ainder.
Middle English -an
English -an
English Scythian
From Scythia + -an.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English Scythia
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Old French -ainder.
Middle English -an
English -an
English Scythian
From Scythia + -an.
词源 3
Etymology tree
English Scythia
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Old French -ainder.
Middle English -an
English -an
English Scythian
From Scythia + -an.
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