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单词 Pelasgian
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Definition of Pelasgian in English:

Pelasgian

adjective pɪˈlazɡɪən
  • Relating to or denoting an ancient people inhabiting the coasts and islands of the Aegean Sea and eastern Mediterranean before the arrival of Greek-speaking peoples in the Bronze Age (12th century BC).

    佩拉斯吉人的(在青铜器时期,即公元前12世纪说希腊语的民族到来之前,居住在爱琴海和地中海东部海岸和岛屿上的古代民族)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The Pelasgian race has never yet left its home; the Hellenic has wandered often and far.
    • Ancient historical traditions of the Greeks, Egyptians, Phoenicians and Assyrians, mentioned a vast empire of the Pelasgian race, which in its epoch of power and greatness had extended over a great part of Europe, Asia and Africa
noun pɪˈlazɡɪən
  • A member of the Pelasgian people.

    佩拉斯吉人

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The Pelasgians, the extended people of the ancient world, had ruled in ante-historical times not only over Hellada, but over the entire Hem peninsula.
    • The Pelasgians may have been the Sea People who around 1200 B.C. invaded the Egyptian Empire.
    • He was said to be the son of the Titans Cronos and Rhea: in that way the Hellenic invaders grafted their chief god onto the divine family of the indigenous Pelasgians.

Origin

Late 15th century: via Latin from Greek Pelasgos + -ian.

Definition of Pelasgian in US English:

Pelasgian

adjective
  • Relating to an ancient people inhabiting the coasts and islands of the Aegean Sea and eastern Mediterranean before the arrival of Greek-speaking peoples in the Bronze Age.

    佩拉斯吉人的(在青铜器时期,即公元前12世纪说希腊语的民族到来之前,居住在爱琴海和地中海东部海岸和岛屿上的古代民族)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The Pelasgian race has never yet left its home; the Hellenic has wandered often and far.
    • Ancient historical traditions of the Greeks, Egyptians, Phoenicians and Assyrians, mentioned a vast empire of the Pelasgian race, which in its epoch of power and greatness had extended over a great part of Europe, Asia and Africa
noun
  • A member of the Pelasgian people.

    佩拉斯吉人

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The Pelasgians, the extended people of the ancient world, had ruled in ante-historical times not only over Hellada, but over the entire Hem peninsula.
    • The Pelasgians may have been the Sea People who around 1200 B.C. invaded the Egyptian Empire.
    • He was said to be the son of the Titans Cronos and Rhea: in that way the Hellenic invaders grafted their chief god onto the divine family of the indigenous Pelasgians.

Origin

Late 15th century: via Latin from Greek Pelasgos + -ian.

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