Cimmerian

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Perpetually dark or gloomy.

   “There, under ebon shades... in dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.”

2. sıfat Mentally dark; ignorant; benighted.

   “The source of man’s unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature.... To remove this Cimmerian darkness... requires the clue of Ariadne.”

3. isim Any of the mythical people supposed to inhabit a land of perpetual darkness.

   “The city, there, of the Cimmerians stands With clouds and darkness veil’d, on whom the sun Deigns not to look with his beam-darting eye,”

4. isim One of the Cimmerii, ancient equestrian nomads of Indo-European origin.

   “Believe me, queen, your swarth Cimmerian Doth make your honour of his body's hue, Spotted, detested, and abominable.”

5. isim The prophetic priestess presiding over the Apollonian Oracle at Cimmerium in Italy.

   “1867 to 1885, Lactantius (240–320 C.E.), Ante-Nicene Fathers, translated by William Fletcher Varro relates that there were ten Sibyls,—the first of the Persians, the second the Libyan, the third the Delphian, the fourth the Cimmerian...”

6. sıfat Pertaining to the ancient Cimmerians.
7. sıfat Characteristic of Cimmeria, especially in having particularly dense darkness etc.

   “there it sleepeth, here it slumbreth: more or lesse they are ever darknesses, yea Cimmerian darknesses.”

8. özel isim The language of the Cimmerians, possibly belonging to the Iranian branch.
9. sıfat related to the prehistoric continent of Cimmeria