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Swart is a related term of cimmerian.


As adjectives the difference between swart and cimmerian

is that swart is of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny while cimmerian is pertaining to the ancient cimmerians.

As nouns the difference between swart and cimmerian

is that swart is black or dark dyestuff; something of a certain swart; something of a certain ocker or swart can be while cimmerian is (greek mythology) any of the mythical people supposed to inhabit a land of perpetual darkness.

As a verb swart

is to make swart or tawny; as, to swart a living part; blacken; tan.

As a proper noun cimmerian is

the language of the cimmerians, possibly belonging to the iranian branch.

swart

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) swart, from (etyl) . Compare (l), (l).

Adjective

(er)
  • Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny.
  • * 1400s:' , ''Hymns to the Virgin'' - Men schalle then sone se / Att mydday hytt shalle ' swarte be
  • * 1590', , ''The Faerie Queene'', Book 2 - A nation strange, with visage ' swart
  • * , III-i - Lame, foolish, crooked, swart , prodigious,
  • * 1819 , , Otho the Great , Act II, Scene I, verses 91-92
    • I'll choose a gaoler, whose swart monstrous face
    Shall be a hell to look upon […]
  • * 1836', , ''Old Ticonderoga'' - The merry soldiers footing it with the ' swart savage maids
  • Black.
  • (obsolete) Gloomy; malignant.
  • * 1906', , ''Time and the Gods'' - Suddenly the ' swart figure of Time stood up before the gods, with both hands dripping with blood and a red sword dangling idly from his fingers, and said: “Sardathrion is gone! I have overthrown it!”
    • (Milton)
    Derived terms
    * swarten * Swart star, (Rare): the Dog Star -- so called from its appearing during the hot weather of summer, which makes swart the countenance. * swarthy (< swarty)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Black or dark dyestuff; something of a certain swart; something of a certain ocker.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) swarten, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make swart or tawny; as, to swart a living part; blacken; tan.
  • * 1646', , ''Pseudodoxia Epidemica'' - the heate of the Sun, whose fervor may ' swarte a living part, and even black a dead or dissolving flesh,

    • Etymology 3

    Variant of sward.

    Noun

    (-)
  • * 1587: Raphael Holinshed, Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland [http://www.archive.org/stream/holinshedschroni01holi#page/356/mode/1up]
    • Howbeit where the rocks and quarrie grounds are, I take the swart of the earth to be so thin, that no tree of anie greatnesse, other than shrubs and bushes, is able to grow or prosper long therein for want of sufficient moisture wherewith to feed them with fresh humour, or at the leastwise of mould...

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    cimmerian

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • perpetually dark or gloomy
  • * 1631 : , L'Allegro
    • There, under ebon shades... in dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.
  • * 1740 :
    • As ragged as thy locks,
    In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.
  • * 1820 :
    • ...the darkness of antiquated barbarism, in which he buries himself like a mole, to throw up the barren hillocks of his Cimmerian labours.
  • (figuratively) mentally dark; ignorant
  • * 1770 :
    • The source of man’s unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature.... To remove this Cimmerian darkness... requires the clue of Ariadne.

    Derived terms

    * cimmerianism * cimmerianize