district south of Macedonia and east of Epirus, from Greek Thessalia (Attic Thettalia), an Illyrian name of unknown origin. Related: Thessalian. The city of Thessalonika on the Thermaic Gulf was ancient Therme, renamed when rebuilt by the Macedonian king Cassander, son of Antipater, and named in honor of his wife, Thessalonica, half-sister of Alexander the Great, whose name contains the region name and Greek nike "victory." The adjectival form of it is Thessalonian Related: Thessalonians.
雙語(yǔ)例句
1. The fertile imagination of early times had placed his abode on Mount Olympos in Thessaly.
古時(shí)候人們想像力極為豐富,認(rèn)為宙斯住在色薩利的奧林匹斯山上.
來(lái)自神話部分
2. Between Macedon and thessaly of eastern GREece there stood a high mountain.