Attic

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WOTD – 6 September 2015

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From Latin Atticus, from Ancient Greek Ἀττικός (Attikós), from some Pre-Greek demonym or toponym for Athens and its hinterland of Attica + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic: forming adjectives”). Equivalent to a modified and clipped Athens +‎ -ic. Doublet of Atticus.

Attic (comparative more Attic, superlative most Attic)

(historical) Of or related to Attica, ancient Athens and its hinterland, particularly:
1. Synonym of Athenian, of or related to the culture of ancient Athens.
  - 1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “I. Introduction”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 31:
    […] Aeschylus here, as elsewhere, made himself the legislator of all Attic tragedy.
2. (architecture) Of or related to ancient Athenian architecture.
3. (linguistics) Of or related to Attic Greek.
(figurative) Marked by the qualities traditionally considered characteristic of the ancient Athenians: classical, refined.
- 1921, Quintilian, “Chapter X: Determination of Style”, in Harold Edgeworth Butler, transl., Instiutio Oratoria, page 611:
  , The distinction between the Attic and the Asiatic schools takes us back to antiquity. The former were regarded as concise and healthy, the latter as empty and inflated: […]

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