nation
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
|
1996
|
|
© The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology 1996, originally published by Oxford University Press 1996. (Hide copyright information)
Copyright
nation XIII. — (O)F.
nation, †
nacioun — L.
nātiō,
-ōn- breed, stock, race, f.
nāt-, pp. stem of
nāscī be born; see
NATAL,
-TION.
So
national XVI,
nationality XVII.
nationalize,
nationalist XVIII.
native (hist.) born thrall XV; (astrol.) subject of a horoscope; one born in a particular place XVI; original or usual inhabitant XVII. — medL.
nātivus, sb. use of L.
nātivus adj. (whence adj. XIV, of one's birth XV), f.
nāt-, pp. stem of
nāscī; see
-IVE.
nativity (festival of) the birth of Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary, or St. John Baptist XII; birth XIV. — (O)F. — late L.
Cite this article
Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography.
|
Book review: Robert Henryson's The Testament of Cresseid And Seven Fables: Shameless Seamus
Newspaper article from: Scotland on Sunday; 6/7/2009; ; 700+ words
; ROBERT HENRYSON'S THE TESTAMENT OF CRESSEID AND SEVEN...Seamus Heaney Faber & Faber, GBP 12.99 Henryson is worthy of far greater recognition...AS DOUBLE acts go, Seamus Heaney and Robert Henryson must count as a bit of an odd couple...
|
|
Robert Henryson's "Morall Fabilles": Irony, Allegory, and Humanism in Late-Medieval Fables
Magazine article from: Fifteenth Century Studies; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...allegory becomes especially sharp in Henryson's Morali Fabules, a collection of...appropriated and usurped nothing. By Henryson's day, Aesop's fables had already...scholastic commentary upon the work; Henryson and his readers would have been working...
|
|
|
Complete and Full with Numbers: The Narrative Poetry of Robert Henryson
Magazine article from: Fifteenth Century Studies; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...Numbers: The Narrative Poetry of Robert Henryson. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi...epithet of Scottish Chaucerians), Robert Henryson (1425?-1506?) emerges as...erudition. MacQueen has worked with Robert Henryson's poetry for the last forty...
|
|
|
Robert Henryson's "Orpheus and Eurydice" and Its Sources
Magazine article from: Fifteenth Century Studies; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; Robert Henryson (1425P-1506?), a Scottish poet...master's. Unlike the Testament or Henryson's Morall Fabillis (late 1480s, inspired...but not the most successful" among Henryson's poems," while John MacQueen, who...
|
|
Reader, Teller and Teacher: The Narrator of Robert Henryson's 'Moral Fables.'
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 9/22/1994; ; 672 words
; This is a short study of the themes and structure of Henryson's Fables, notionally focused on the guiding role of the Narrator...stimulating little book and a handy addition to undergraduate reading on Henryson. [Sally Mapstone]
|
|
Making mention of Aesop: Henryson's fable of the two mice.
Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...upon human quirks and morals. Henryson's rendition of the fable of the...on Denton Fox's description of Henryson's fabular world as dependant...Country Mouse, as it is found in Robert Henryson's Moral Fables, probably written...
|
|
POETRY Seamus Heaney has brought the work of an overshadowed 15th- century poet into the light, finds Jonathan Bate
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 7/12/2009; ; 700+ words
; The Testament of Cresseid and Seven Fables by Robert Henryson Tr by Seamus Heaney FABER, pounds 12.99, 183 pp...That gap was filled by the 15th-century Scots poet Robert Henryson in The Testament of Cresseid. Composed in the same...
|
|
"An elusive rhythm": 'The Great Gatsby' reclaims 'Troilus and Criseyde.' (influence of Chaucer's poem on F. Scott Fitzgerald's work)
Magazine article from: Studies in American Fiction; 3/22/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...story by fifteenth-century Scottish poet Robert Henryson: the reunion of the two lovers echoes Henryson's "sequel" to Chaucer's poem, The...is also demonstrable that it shares with Henryson's work the conditions of a sequel to Chaucer...
|
|
At play in our culture's canticles
Newspaper article from: The Irish Times; 8/8/2009; 700+ words
; ...writes AIDAN MATHEWS WE KNOW hardly anything about Robert Henryson, who died in the 15th century, and a great deal...s Latin and French galore in the pre-history of Robert Henryson's Renaissance project, together with the troubadours...
|
|
The early prints of the Testament of Cresseid and the presentation of lines 577-91.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: ANQ; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; Robert Henryson's late-fifteenth-century Middle...composition of the poem (ca. 1492) and Henryson's death (ca. 1505). Nonetheless...testament" (lines 577-91) that gives the Henryson poem its name, and by comparing the...
|
|
Robert Henryson
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Robert Henryson c.1425-c.1506, Scottish poet...Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde. In Henryson's version the heroine dies a destitute leper. Partly because of this poem, Henryson has been called a Scottish Chaucerian...
|
|
Henryson, Robert
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Henryson, Robert (?1424–?1506), a Scottish poet of the school known until...Robene and Makyne , a pastoral, and his Morall Fabillis of Esope . Henryson's distinctive virtue is the combination of stern morality with humane...
|
|
|
Scots
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...a considerable literature in Barbour , Henryson , Dunbar , Douglas , Sir D. Lindsay...x2013;50, writers like MacDiarmid , Robert Maclellan (1907–85), S...Scott (1920– ), Robert Kemp (1908– ...
|
