1610s, "of or pertaining to the Germanic languages and to peoples or tribes who speak or spoke them," from Latin Teutonicus, from Teutones, Teutoni, name of a tribe that inhabited coastal Germany near the mouth of the Elbe and devastated Gaul 113-101 B.C.E., probably via Celtic from Proto-Germanic *theudanoz, from PIE *teuta-, the common word for "people, tribe" (cognates: Lithuanian tauto, Oscan touto, Old Irish tuath, Gothic tiuda, Old English teod "people, race, nation").
Used in English in anthropology to avoid the modern political association of German; but in this anthropological sense French uses germanique and German uses germanisch, because neither uses its form of German for the narrower national meaning (compare French allemand, for which see Alemanni; and German deutsch, under Dutch). In Finnish, Germany is Saksa "Land of the Saxons."
The Teutonic Knights (founded c.1191) were a military order of German knights formed for service in the Holy Land, but who later crusaded in then-pagan Prussia and Lithuania. The Teutonic cross (1882) was the badge of the order.
雙語例句
1. The coach was a masterpiece of Teutonic engineering.
這種長途汽車是體現德國工程設計水平的杰作。
來自柯林斯例句
2. There was sweat pouring over her Teutonic face.
汗水順著她那張典型的德國人的臉往下淌。
來自柯林斯例句
3. The preparations were made with Teutonic thoroughness.
各項準備工作均以日耳曼人縝密的精神完成。
來自《權威詞典》
4. Crikey, sir. You look more Teutonic than the Kommandant himself.
哎呀, 長官, 你比Kommandant看起來更像日爾曼人.
來自互聯網
5. The Anglo - Saxons brought their own Teutonic religion to Britain.