释义 |
rune/ru:n/n. 1 any of the letters of the earliest Germanic alphabet used by Scandinavians and Anglo-Saxons from about the 3rd c. and formed by modifying Roman or Greek characters to suit carving 如尼字母,如尼文(一种北欧等地的古文字,源自为便于雕刻将希腊、罗马字母改动而形成的早期日尔曼字母,自从大约 3 世纪开始被斯堪的纳维亚人及盎格鲁-萨克逊人使用) 2 a similar mark of mysterious or magic significance (与上述文字类似的)神秘(或魔力)符号 3 a Finnish poem or a division of it 芬兰诗(或诗章) □ runic adj.[Old Norse rún (only in pl. rúnar) ‘magic sign’, related to Old English rūn] |