Delian

英式音标：Delian怎么读

美式音标：Delian怎么读

Delian词义

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adj. (爱琴海中的希腊)德洛斯的 (波斯阿契美尼德王朝国王)大流士的


Delian英文词源

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Delian (adj.)
1620s, "of Delos," tiny island in the Aegean, birthplace of Apollo and Artemis. Delian problem "find the length of the side of a cube having double the volume of a given cube," was set by the oracle at Delos when it answered (430 B.C.E.) that the plague in Athens would end when Apollo's (cube-shaped) altar was doubled. The Latin fem. form of the word became the proper name Delia.