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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
Germanist en · ADJ
Etymology
Borrowed from German Germanist, along the model of earlier English Romanist (“scholar of Romance languages”). By surface analysis, German + -ist, doublet of Germanicist.
Meanings
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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.
The Germanist view also led to the description of post-Roman lawcodes as Germanic law, and, in archeology, to the new types of rural settlement which replaced the old Roman villas being called 'Germanic', and to the new burial forms, like furnished inhumation (with grave-goods), similarly being ascribed to Germanic influence.
2005 [1995], “The Barbarian invasions”, in The New Cambridge Medieval History (The New Cambridge Medieval History), volume 1, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 36:
Forms
Antonyms
Romanist · continuity
Translations (1)
de germanistisch (Translations)
Germanist en · NOUN
Etymology
Borrowed from German Germanist, along the model of earlier English Romanist (“scholar of Romance languages”). By surface analysis, German + -ist, doublet of Germanicist.
Meanings
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(dated, qualifier:humanities) A person who studies the Germanic languages, the associated literatures and/or cultures.
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(qualifier:humanities) A person who specializes in the German language, literature and/or culture of the German-speaking world.
Forms
Coordinates
Romanist · Slavist · Yiddishist · Anglicist · Netherlandist · Scandinavicist
Relateds
Germanism · Germano- · Nostraticist · Slavicist · Indogermanist · Germanistics · Germanize
Synonyms
Germanicist
Translations (16)
vo germavan (person who studies Germanic languages and cultures) · ru германи́стка (person who studies Germanic languages and cultures) · it germanista (person who studies Germanic languages and cultures) · vo higermavan (person who studies Germanic languages and cultures) · sv germanist (person who studies Germanic languages and cultures) · ru германи́ст (person who studies Germanic languages and cultures) · de Germanistin (person who studies Germanic languages and cultures) · vo jigermavan (person who studies Germanic languages and cultures) · hu germanista (person who studies Germanic languages and cultures) · nl germanist (person who studies Germanic languages and cultures) · fr germaniste (person who studies Germanic languages and cultures) · cs germanista (person who studies Germanic languages and cultures) · es germanista (person who studies Germanic languages and cultures) · ca germanista (person who studies Germanic languages and cultures) · fi germanisti (person who studies Germanic languages and cultures) · de Germanist (person who studies Germanic languages and cultures)