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Definition: Doric |
DoricAdjective1. (architecture) oldest and simplest of the three orders of classical Greek architecture. Noun1. The dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in the Peloponnesus. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "doric" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1644. (references) |
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Literature | Doric The oldest, strongest, and simplest of the Grecian orders of architecture. So called from Doris, in Greece, or the Dorians who employed it. The Greek Doric is simpler than the Roman imitation. The former stands on the pavement without fillet or other ornament and the flutes are not scalloped. The Roman column is placed on a plinth, has fillets, and the flutings, both top and bottom, are scalloped. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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See:
- Dorians
- Doric order
- Doric dialect
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Doric is the name given to the dialect of Scots spoken in the North East of Scotland. For an example of Doric literature, see the poetry of Charles Murray. For example, Murray's short poem, Gin I was God
Doric Translation
- GIN I was God, sittin' up there abeen,
- Weariet nae doot noo a' my darg was deen,
- Deaved wi' the harps an' hymns oonendin' ringin',
- Tired o' the flockin' angels hairse wi' singin',
- To some clood-edge I'd daunder furth an', feth,
- Look ower an' watch hoo things were gyaun aneth.
- Syne, gin I saw hoo men I'd made mysel'
- Had startit in to pooshan, sheet an' fell,
- To reive an' rape, an' fairly mak' a hell
- O' my braw birlin' Earth,--a hale week's wark--
- I'd cast my coat again, rowe up my sark,
- An' or they'd time to lench a second ark,
- Tak' back my word an' sen' anither spate,
- Droon oot the hale hypothec, dicht the sklate,
- Own my mistak', an, aince I cleared the brod,
- Start a'thing ower again, gin I was God.
- IF I were God, sitting up there above,
- Wearied no doubt, now all my work was done,
- Deafened by the harps and hymns unending ringing,
- Tired of the flocking angels hoarse with singing,
- To some cloud edge I'd saunter forth and, faith,
- Look over and watch how things were going beneath.
- Then if I saw how men, I'd made myself
- Had started out to poison, shoot and fell,
- To steal and rape and fairly make a hell
- Of my fine spinning Earth -- a whole week's work --
- I'd drop my coat again, roll up my shirt,
- And, ere they'd time to launch a second ark,
- Take back my word and send another flood,
- Drown out the whole shebang, wipe the slate,
- Admit my mistake, and once I'd cleared the board,
- Start everything over again, if I were God.
The main phonetic differences between Doric and other Scots dialects are that 'wh' is pronounced /f/ -- fit meaning what instead of whit, fa meaning who instead of wha, 'aw', 'au' and 'aa' are pronounced /a/ -- a' , or aa meaning all instead of 'aw', 'oo' (normally written as 'ui') is pronounced 'ee' -- abeen meaning above instead of abuin.
The term, "Doric", was used to refer to all dialects of Scots as a jocular reference to the Dorian dialect of Greek. The Greek Dorians lived in Sparta, and were supposed by the ancient Greeks to have spoken laconically, and in a language that was thought harsher in tone and more phonetically conservative than the Attic spoken in Athens. Doric Greek was used for the verses spoken by the chorus in Greek tragedy. Now it is usually used for North East Scots.
External Links
- http://www.scots-online.org/grammar/mnscots.htm
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Doric Greek is an ancient dialect of the Greek language. It preserves long a where other dialects change it to é, as in ga matér "earth mother" (Attic and Koiné gé métér), and preserves original -ti endings that Attic changed to -si (3rd person plural -onti, Attic/Koiné -ousi).Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Doric Greek."
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The Doric order was one of the three orders or organizational systems of Greek or classical architecture; the other two orders were the Ionic and the Corinthian. The Doric order was the earliest of these, known from the 7th century BC and reaching its mature form in the 5th century.
Doric columns stood on the porch of a temple without a base; their vertical shafts were fluted with parallel grooves; and they were topped by a smooth capital that flared from the column to meet a square abacus at the intersection with the horizontal beam they carried.
Early examples of the Doric order include the temples at Paestum, in southern Italy, a region settled by Greek colonists.
The Parthenon, the largest temple in classical Athens, is in the Doric order, although it has some Ionic elements.
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| Antonyms: corinthian (adj), ionic (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Doric |
| English words defined with "doric": Arris ♦ Boultin ♦ Doricism, Dorism ♦ echinus ♦ Fusarole ♦ Gutta ♦ Hemiglyph ♦ Metope, Mutule ♦ Parthenon, Proto-Doric ♦ Supercolumniation ♦ Triglyph, Tuscan. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "doric": Doric Dialect, Doric Land, Doric Reed ♦ Orders of Architecture. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "doric": Proto-Doric. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Doric" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Romanian (doric). |
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 | Roman Doric entablature and column on pedestal. Elevation study. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Various memorial structures, including monumental Doric column with tripod and flame and temple-form domed circular structure with tripod and flame. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Architectural drawing for a monument with obelisk on top of doric portico. Front elevation. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Doric columns" by Jen Dixon Commentary: "A shot of the bases of a repeating line of columns in the doric order." |
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| "Doric" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 80.49% of the time. "Doric" is used about 123 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 80.49% | 99 | 32,870 |
| Noun (proper) | 19.51% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Total | 100.00% | 123 | N/A |
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Expression using "doric": doric order. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "doric": doric-speaking, doric-square. | |
Ending with "doric": mock-doric, neo-doric, Proto-Doric, tuscan-doric. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
doric column | 38 |
doric | 29 |
doric order | 14 |
corinthian doric ionic | 5 |
doric vault | 3 |
doric temple | 3 |
column doric greek | 3 |
doric ionic | 3 |
ionic corinthian doric column | 2 |
doric ionic order | 2 |
architecture doric | 2 |
column doric roman | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "doric"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | Dories (Dorian). (various references) | |
Albanian | dorik (dorian). (various references) | |
Arabic | دورى (dorian). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | местен говор (patois, vernacular), провинциален (countrified, country, provincial, rural, rustic), дорийско наречие, дорийски стил, дорийски (dorian). (various references) | |
Danish | sanserif (gothic, grotesque, sans serif, sanserif), grotesk (grotesque). (various references) | |
Dutch | Dorisch (Dorian). (various references) | |
Esperanto | dorika (Dorian). (various references) | |
Finnish | doorilainen (Dorian). (various references) | |
French | dorique (Dorian). (various references) | |
German | Grotesk-Schrift (gothic, grotesque, sans serif, sanserif). (various references) | |
Greek | δωρικόσ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | dór (dorian). (various references) | |
Italian | dorico. (various references) | |
Manx | Doaragh (Dorian). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oricday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | dórico (dorian), dórica (Dorian). (various references) | |
Romanian | doric. (various references) | |
Russian | провинциальный (provincial, smalltown), дорический (dorian). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | dorski (dorian). (various references) | |
Spanish | dórico. (various references) | |
Swedish | dorisk stil, dorisk (dorian). (various references) | |
Turkish | dorlara ait (dorian), taşra şivesi, kaba (abrupt, barbarous, base, bearish, boorish, brusque, brutal, brutish, churlish, clodhopping, coarse, coarse grained, common, crass, crude, discourteous, disobliging, disrespectful, foul, graceless, gross, gruff, gutter, hard-hitting, harsh, heavy, hobnailed, hoggish, ill bred, ill mannered, impolite, incondite, indelicate, inelegant, loud, loutish, offhand, offhanded, ornery, puffy, rank, rough, rough-hewn, roughly, rude, rugged, rustic, short-spoken, splay, swinish, tactless, unceremonious, unchivalrous, uncivil, uncomplaisant, uncomplimentary, uncouth, underbred, unfinished, ungainly, ungalant, ungentle, ungentlemanlike, ungentlemanly, ungraceful, ungracious, unmannerly, unparliamentary, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar), eski yunanistan'daki dor lehçesi, bozuk diyalekt, bozuk (addle, bad, broken, broken down, bum, damaged, dead, deranged, dirty, disappointed, dished, disordered, distorted, embroiled, faulty, flyblown, foul, gone, hard set, haywire, heavy, hipshot, imperfect, in bad order, irregular, kaput, knackered, off, on the fritz, out of action, out of commission, out of gear, out of order, perverse, putrefacient, putrefactive, putrid, rancid, rotten, stale, touched, unsound, upset, vicious, wrong). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | місцевий діалект, провінційний (backwoods, country, provincial), дорійський говір, дорійський (dorian). (various references) | |
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Misspellings | |
"Doric" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dacic, Daraich, Darracq, Darroch, Dieric, Dodik, domic, dorc, D'orcia, Dordi, Dorice, doriec, Dorin, Dorji, Dorli, Dorrie, Dorsch, Dourif, Dowitcz, Dowrick, Droi, Durji, Durock, Horik, Odarich, Odoric, Odria, Vorlich. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-i-o-r" | |
-1 letter: coir, cord, odic. | |
-2 letters: cod, cor, doc, dor, orc, rid, roc, rod. | |
-3 letters: do, id, od, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-i-o-r" | |
+1 letter: nordic, orchid, rhodic. | |
+2 letters: acaroid, carotid, chlorid, choired, choroid, cirsoid, codrive, cordial, cording, cordite, cormoid, corrida, cowbird, cricoid, crinoid, crowdie, discord, divorce, dormice, dornick, ergodic, ericoid, ochroid, orchids, parodic, percoid, picador, ripcord, sarcoid. | |
+3 letters: braconid, bromidic, cancroid, cardioid, carotids, centroid, ceratoid, chloride, chlorids, chording, choreoid, chorioid, choroids, chromide, cloddier, cloudier, coadmire, coderive, codifier, codirect, codriven, codriver, codrives, coeditor, collider, colubrid, confider, consider, coracoid, cordials, cordings, cordites, cordlike, cordwain, corniced, corodies, coronoid, corridas, corridor, coverlid, cowbirds, creditor, cricoids, crinoids, crowdies, crowding, cuspidor, decurion, depictor, dichroic, dicrotal, dicrotic, dictator, dioptric, dioramic, dioritic, director, discolor, discords, discover, discrown, disfrock, divorced, divorcee, divorcer, divorces, doctrine, dornicks, draconic, dropkick, fricando, gridlock, hadronic, hidrotic, hydronic, hydropic, hyracoid, idocrase, indictor, inductor, ironclad, lordotic, mediocre, microdot, morticed, outcried, percoids, periodic, picadors, podagric, prosodic, racemoid, recodify, recoding, recoiled, recoined, recopied, rejoiced, revoiced, ripcords, sarcoids, sardonic, sciuroid, scleroid, sporadic, tornadic, trichoid, tripodic, trochoid, whipcord. | |
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