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Pertaining to the school of thought which downplays or denies the continuity of legal and cultural institutions between Rome and later medieval Europe, highlighting the role of external influences and innovation in the decline of the Roman Empire.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: historiography, history, human-sciences, law, sciences
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: Romanist, continuity
A person who studies the Germanic languages, the associated literatures and/or cultures.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated
Qualifier: humanities
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Germanicist
Antonyms: none provided
A person who specializes in the German language, literature and/or culture of the German-speaking world.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: humanities
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
a specialist in the study of Germanic language or culture or literature
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: specialist, specializer, specialiser
Borrowed from German Germanist, along the model of earlier English Romanist (“scholar of Romance languages”). By surface analysis, German + -ist, doublet of Germanicist.
Across languages
Translations
17 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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German:
germanistisch
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Catalan:
germanista
— person who studies Germanic languages and cultures
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Czech:
germanista
— person who studies Germanic languages and cultures
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Dutch:
germanist
— person who studies Germanic languages and cultures
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Finnish:
germanisti
— person who studies Germanic languages and cultures
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French:
germaniste
— person who studies Germanic languages and cultures
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German:
Germanist
— person who studies Germanic languages and cultures
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German:
Germanistin
— person who studies Germanic languages and cultures
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Hungarian:
germanista
— person who studies Germanic languages and cultures
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Italian:
germanista
— person who studies Germanic languages and cultures
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Russian:
германи́ст
(germaníst)
— person who studies Germanic languages and cultures
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Russian:
германи́стка
(germanístka)
— person who studies Germanic languages and cultures
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Spanish:
germanista
— person who studies Germanic languages and cultures
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Swedish:
germanist
— person who studies Germanic languages and cultures
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Volapük:
germavan
— person who studies Germanic languages and cultures
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Volapük:
higermavan
— person who studies Germanic languages and cultures
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Volapük:
jigermavan
— person who studies Germanic languages and cultures
