The Greeks called it the Aegean Pelagos and the Italians referred to it as Arcipelago (meaning "chief sea"), but English speakers now call it the Aegean Sea. Numerous islands dot its expanse, and 16th-century English speakers adopted a modified form of its Italian name for any sea with a...
[C16 (meaning: the Aegean Sea): from Italianarcipelago,literally: the chief sea (perhaps originally a mistranslation of GreekAigaion pelagosthe Aegean Sea), from archi- +pelagosea, from Latinpelagus,from Greekpelagos] archipelagic,archipelagianadj ...
The Greeks called it the Aegean Pelagos and the Italians referred to it as Arcipelago (meaning "chief sea"), but English speakers now call it the Aegean Sea. Numerous islands dot its expanse, and 16th-century English speakers adopted a modified form of its Italian name for any sea with a...
[C16 (meaning: the Aegean Sea): from Italianarcipelago,literally: the chief sea (perhaps originally a mistranslation of GreekAigaion pelagosthe Aegean Sea), from archi- +pelagosea, from Latinpelagus,from Greekpelagos] archipelagic,archipelagianadj ...
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics:Geographyar‧chi‧pel‧a‧go/ˌɑːkəˈpeləɡəʊ$ˌɑːrkəˈpeləɡoʊ/noun(pluralarchipelagos)[countable]a group of smallislandsExamples from the Corpusarchipelago•Her scissors move through themateriallike...
in the Arches’, Sir T Roe,Negotiations1626. A leading characteristic of the Aegean Sea is of course that it contains a large number of islands, and from the 16th century onwards we see a strong and steady move towards what is now the word’s main meaning, ‘large group of islands’....
so the word perhaps is an Italian compound or an alteration in Italian of Medieval LatinEgeopelagus, from GreekAigaion pelagos"Aegean Sea." The Aegean being full of island chains, the meaning was extended in Italian to "any sea studded with islands" (a sense attested in English from c. 160...
Aegean Sea。广阔的海域上星星点点的、无数的岛屿,16世纪 English speaker 透过它的意大利语名修改而成,指有类似岛屿分布的海洋。随时间推移,archipelago 用来指群岛,现在它常被用作比喻,例如,“an archipelago of high-rise buildings「高层群岛建筑」”。Test Your Vocabulary What is the meaning of atoll?
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Their name for themselves is Lingit, meaning "People of the Tides" The Tlingit are a matrilineal society that developed a complex hunter-gatherer culture in the temperate rainforest of the southeast Alaska coast and the Alexander Archipelago. An inland subgroup, known as the Inland Tlingit, ...