hyperborean
英 [,haɪpəbɔː'riːən; -'bɔːrɪən]
美
释义
adj. 极北的；严寒的；北极的
n. 住在极北地区的人，北国人；极北乐土之民
英文词源
- hyperborean (adj.)
- 1590s, from Late Latin hyperboreanus, from Latin hyperboreus, from Greek hyperboreos "pertaining to the regions of the far north," from hyper (see hyper-) + Boreas (see boreal). The Hyperboreans were an imagined Arctic people believed by the ancients to be distinguished by piety and happiness. Middle English had iperborie "the far north of the Earth" (mid-15c.).
英英释意
- 1. (Greek mythology) one of a people that the ancient Greeks believed lived in a warm and sunny land north of the source of the north wind
