“Angle”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

Angle

释义

Angle, n.³|ˈæŋg(ə)l|
[ad. L. Angl-us, pl. Angl-i (Tacitus), a. OTeut. *angli-, in OE. regularly ęngle (occas., after L., Angle), the people of Angul, -ol, -el, ON. Öngull (‘illa patria quæ Angulus dicitur,’ Bæda) a district of Holstein, so called from its shape, the word being the same as angle n.¹; whence also Angul-cynn, Angul-þéod, orig. ‘the race or people of Angul’; afterwards, the race of this and kindred descent in Britain, the ‘English’ race.]
1. pl. One of the Low-German tribes that settled in Britain, where they formed the kingdoms of Northumbria, Mercia, and East Anglia, and finally gave their name to the whole ‘English’ people.
c885K. ælfred Bæda iv. xxvi, Þæt land, ðætte Angle ǽ r hæfdon.1794Sullivan View Nat. V. 116 The Angles, from whom the majority of the English derive their blood, and the whole their name.1867Freeman Norm. Conq. I. 24 North of the Thames lay the three great Kingdoms of the Angles.
2. pl. Rhetorically for: The English.
1823Byron Juan xiv. xxxviii, All foreigners excel The serious Angles in the eloquence Of pantomine.

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