Germanic

Germanic
adjective
  1. 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
  2. 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
  1. [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
  1. mid 17th cent.: from Latin Germanicus, from Germanus (见 German)
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