Turco- or Turko-
combining form
indicating Turkey or Turkish
⇒
Turco-Greek
Turco-a word element meaning 'Turkish'.
[French, from Italian]Tur·co-
combining form
or Tur·ko- \\\\ˈtər-(ˌ)kō\\\\
Turcophil
2. Turkish and
Turco-Greek
combining form
or Tur·ko- \\\\ˈtər-(ˌ)kō\\\\
ETYMOLOGY Turco- from Medieval Latin Turcus Turkish; Turko- from Turkish
1. Turkic : Turkish : TurkTurcophil
2. Turkish and
Turco-Greek
Turco-
(亦作Turko-)
combining form
- Turkish; Turkish and ...表示“土耳其的”; “土耳其人的”; “土耳其语的”; “土耳其和…的”:
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Turco-Tartar.
- ■ relating to Turkey表示“与土耳其有关的”。
1813 A. Bruce Life Alex. Morus ii. 27The iniquity of that Turcopopish government.
1813 Q. Rev. Oct. 256/2Turcotartarian.
1854 Max Müller in C. Bunsen Christianity & Mankind III. 279The still undivided ‘Turko-Tataric’ speech.
1854 J. H. Newman Lect. Hist. Turks 62The ancient Turco-Tartar empire..extended to the Caspian and towards the Indus.
1865 Reader No. 107. 33/3Hungarian and Turco⁓tartaric dialects.
1880 A. H. Sayce Introd. Sci. Lang. II. viii. 190The whole Turanian family..may be divided into five branches, the Finno-Ugric, the Turko-Tatar, the Samoyedic, the Mongolian, and the Tungusian.
1884 Graphic 4 Oct. 360/3 The style is Turco-Byzantine—the beginning of the end.
1897 Westm. Gaz. 25 Sept. 2/2Other Greek statesmen..were also enamoured of the idea of a Turko-Greek alliance.
1903 Daily Chron. 28 May 6/1On my arrival I found the Turkish and Turco-Albanian population of the town calm.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 13 July 1/3In order to gain the confidence of the Turco-Cretans.
1909 G. Drage in Cambr. Mod. Hist. (1921) XI. ix. 276The settlement of the Turco-Persian frontier question.
1915 W. S. Churchill in M. Gilbert Winston S. Churchill (1972) III.Compan. i. 421The Turco-German fleet.
1923 G. Buchanan My Mission to Russia I. vi. 64The Turco-Bulgarian agreement.
1948 D. Diringer Alphabet 567Turco-Tatar and Caucasian languages.
1969 V. N. Datta Jallianwala Bagh 5The Turco-German organisation at Berne.
1982 M. Bingham Princess Lieven xiii. 189The Turco-Russian conflict rumbled on.
1964 Jrnl. R. Central AsianSoc. LI. 72A *Turco-centric history.
1969 Middle Eastern Studies May 173 The passage is worth noting for Gökalp's *turcocentricity: ‘Europeans committed an historical sin by translating Attila's title..as ‘Scourge of God’.’
1952 Round Table Dec. 25 The well of *Turcological study.
1881 A. Vámbéry in Athenæum 31 Dec. 888/2*Turcologists will be always thankful for his edition of the Cumanian glossary.
1951 W. K. Matthews LanguagesU.S. S.R. iv. 63Gyula Németh, the Hungarian turcologist.
1976 Times Lit. Suppl. 3 Sept. 1077/3The Russians..began to produce excellent Persianists, Turcologists, Mongolists.
1918 Q. Rev. Apr. 513The transformation of the Medresses..into ‘National’ schools for the teaching of *Turkology.
1951 W. K. Matthews LanguagesU.S. S.R. iv. 64This uses phonetic as well as morphological data, and has received the sanction of Soviet turcology.
1834 Ayesha I. i. 9 He had been bitten by the *turcomania to such a degree, that . [ etc.]
1876 Times 16 June, *Turcophile.
1880 Manch. Guard. 3 Nov.,They are Turcophiles, but they would very much like to see a sequestration of Turkish revenues for their own advantage.
1895 Eclectic Mag. Oct. 566A Turkophil Bulgaria might come..to mean a great autonomous..Balkan Kingdom.
1903 Speaker 10 Oct. 28/2 His wonderful achievement in destroying the great Turcophil tradition.
1908 J. Morley Recoll. (1917) II. 245Am I quite wrong in suspecting a degree of *Turcophilia in you?
1967 C. Seton-Watson Italy from Liberalism to Fascism x. 376William II was impressed. His Turcophilia of the previous autumn had by now quite vanished.
1880 Daily News 7 Oct. 4/6 Their conduct is not to be ascribed to what they call *Turcophilism—meaning..affection for the Turk.
1896 Westm. Gaz. 14 May 2/2His kindness..should convince the sternest *Turkophobe.
1877 J. Baker TurkeyPref. 4Another resident of..long standing, but a *Turcophobist.
ORIGIN: from Medieval Latin Turcus Turk noun 1 + -o- .
☞ turco
Turco-
Prefix
- Forming compound words pertaining to Turkey or the Turks.
Etymology
From Medieval Latin Turcus.
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
English words prefixed with Turco-