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発音

• IPA: /ˈɛfθəˌlaɪt/

名詞

Ephthalite (plural Ephthalites)

1. Alternative form of Hephthalite.
   • 1653, The History of the Warres of the Emperour Justinian, page 3:

     Theſe Ephthalites are a Hunniſh Nation, but not mingled with other Hunnes, having no part of their Country bordering upon them; [...]

   • 1685, William Howel, An Institution of General History, London, page 44:

     This Perozes was Valiant and Warlike, but with more Courage than Diſcretion made War againſt the Ephthalites, as Procopius, or Nephthalites as Agathias calls them, about their Boundaries.

   • 2025, Kenneth A. R. Kennedy, God-Apes and Fossil Men: Paleoanthropology of South Asia, page 337:

     The Kushanic unification of the valleys of the Oxus, Indus, and Ganges under one kingdom was broken by central Asian invaders, the Ephthalites, who destroyed the Buddhist monasteries and stupas, [...]

派生語

形容詞

Ephthalite (comparative more Ephthalite, superlative most Ephthalite)

1. Alternative form of Hephthalite.

   Synonym: Ephthalitic

   • 1764, A General History of the World, page 330:

     The Ephthalite Hunns, or Nephthalite, as Agathias ſtiles them, inhabited a rich country bordering to the north on Perſia, and at a great diſtance from the Sarmatian or Scythian Hunns, with whom they had no intercourſe, nor the leaſt reſemblance, either in their perſons or manners.

   • 1876, George Rawlinson, The Seventh Great Oriental Monarchy, London, page 427:

     They had extended their dominion over the great Ephthalite kingdom, partly by force of arms, partly through the treachery of Katulphus, an Ephthalite chieftain; [...]

   • 1955, Hermann Goetz, The Early Wooden Temples of Chamba, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 40:

     Without these affinities even the duration of the Ephthalite empire for one and a quarter centuries would be inexplicable.

Further reading

• “Ephthalite”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Ephthalite”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.