Saxon是什么意思_Saxon怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Angles and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons; dominant in England until the Norman Conquest

Adjective:

of or relating to or characteristic of the early Saxons or Anglo-Saxons and their descendents (especially the English or Lowland Scots) and their language;"Saxon princes"
"for greater clarity choose a plain Saxon term instead of a latinate one"

中英词源

Saxon 撒克逊人

来自 Saxon,撒克逊人，来自 Proto-Germanic*Sahsa,石头，石制刀具，刀，来自 PIE*sek,砍，切，词源同 saw,segment.词义演变比较 Frank,法兰克人，原义为标枪。

Saxon (n.): c. 1200, from Late Latin Saxonem (nominative Saxo; also source of French Saxon, Spanish Sajon, Italian Sassone), usually found in plural Saxones, from a Germanic source (Old English Seaxe, Old High German Sahsun, German Sachse "Saxon"), with a possible literal sense of "swordsmen" (compare Old English seax, Old Frisian, Old Norse sax "knife, short sword, dagger," Old High German Saxnot, name of a war-god), from Proto-Germanic *sahsam "knife," from PIE *sek- "to cut" (see section (n.)).

The word figures in the well-known story, related by Geoffrey of Monmouth, who got it from Nennius, of the treacherous slaughter by the Anglo-Saxons of their British hosts:
Accordingly they all met at the time and place appointed, and began to treat of peace; and when a fit opportunity offered for executing his villany, Hengist cried out, "Nemet oure Saxas," and the same instant seized Vortigern, and held him by his cloak. The Saxons, upon the signal given, drew their daggers, and falling upon the princes, who little suspected any such design, assassinated them to the number of four hundred and sixty barons and consuls ....
The OED editors helpfully point out that the correct Old English (with an uninflected plural) would be nimað eowre seax. For other Germanic national names that may have derived from characteristic tribal weapons, see Frank, Lombard. As an adjective from 1560s. Still in 20c. used by Celtic speakers to mean "an Englishman" (Welsh Sais, plural Seison "an Englishman;" Seisoneg "English").

In reference to the modern German state of Saxony (German Sachsen, French Saxe) it is attested from 1630s. Saxon is the source of the -sex in Essex, Sussex, etc. (compare Middlesex, from Old English Middel-Seaxe "Middle Saxons"). Bede distinguished the Anglo-Saxons, who conquered much of southern Britain, from the Ealdesaxe "Old Saxons," who stayed in Germany.

词态变化

复数 Saxons;

权威造句

1. These Severn Valley woods have been exploited for timber since Saxon times.: 从撒克逊时代起就开始采伐塞文山谷的这些树林获取木料。

2. Ex-cavations have revealed Roman and Anglo-Saxon remains in the area.: 挖掘工作已显示在该地区有罗马和盎格鲁-撒克逊时代的遗迹。

3. Debilly had no Anglo-Saxon shyness about discussing money.: 在谈到钱时，德比利毫无英国式的羞涩。

4. Aisles were added to the original Saxon building in the Norman period.: 在诺曼时期,原来的萨克森风格的建筑物都增添了走廊.

5. Anglo - Saxon is the forerunner of modern English.: 盎格鲁撒克逊语是现代英语的先驱.

近反义词

Anglo-Saxon 盎格鲁-撒克逊人...

Old English 古英语

in plain Saxon 用浅显的英语...

Plain Saxon 易懂的英语,通俗易懂...

相似短语

old saxon phr. 古撒克逊语

Saxon slab 撒克逊玻璃板(即诺曼玻璃板块, 供嵌镶玻璃窗用)

Anglo Saxon architecture 盎格鲁撒克逊建筑

anglo saxon deity phr. 盎格鲁-撒克逊女神

west saxon phr. 西撒克逊语

Saxon words n. 纯粹的英语

Plain Saxon 易懂的英语, 通俗易懂的话

saxon words n.纯粹的英语

white anglo saxon protestant phr. 盎格鲁撒克逊系的白人新教徒

four letter anglo saxon word phr. 四字母忌讳词，四个英语字母构成的庸俗下流的词语

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