英语词汇ultima thule的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Ultima Thule. A distant territory or a remote goal or ideal. The original Thule was the northernmost region of the habita- ble world to ancient Greek geographers, from the time the fourth century Greek navigator Pytheas visited a northern is- land he called Thule, which has variously been identified as Ice- land, Norway, or the Shetland Islands. The words Ultima Thule, sometimes used in the lower case, are from the Latin ultima, “farthest,” plus Thule. There is a real town called Thule in north- west Greenland.

词汇	ultima thule
词源	Ultima Thule. A distant territory or a remote goal or ideal. The original Thule was the northernmost region of the habita- ble world to ancient Greek geographers, from the time the fourth century Greek navigator Pytheas visited a northern is- land he called Thule, which has variously been identified as Ice- land, Norway, or the Shetland Islands. The words Ultima Thule, sometimes used in the lower case, are from the Latin ultima, “farthest,” plus Thule. There is a real town called Thule in north- west Greenland.
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