of, relating to, or denoting the branch of the Indo-European language family that includes English, German, Dutch, Frisian, and the Scandinavian languages 日耳曼语族(属印欧语系,包括英语、德语、荷兰语、弗里斯兰语和斯堪的纳维亚语)的;与日耳曼语族有关的 ■of, relating to, or denoting the peoples of ancient northern and western Europe speaking such languages (与)(古代欧洲西部和北部)操日耳曼语族语言的民族(有关)的
having characteristics of or attributed to Germans or Germany 有德国人(或德国)特点的;属德国人(或德国)的 she had an almost Germanic regard for order. 她像德国人那样守秩序。
noun
[mass noun]the Germanic languages collectively [总称]日耳曼语族。 参见East Germanic, North Germanic, West Germanic ■the unrecorded ancient language from which these developed, thought to have been spoken on the shores of the Baltic Sea in the 3rd millennium bc (无史料记载的)原始日耳曼语(据信公元前 3000年时分布于波罗的海沿岸)。 亦称Proto-Germanic
语源
mid 17th cent.: from Latin Germanicus, from Germanus (见 German)