anglo-saxon

anglo-saxon
anglo-saxon, onne
(entrée créée par le supplément)
(an-glo-sa-kson, kso-n') adj.
Qui appartient au mélange d'Angles et de Saxons, peuples germains qui s'emparèrent de l'île de Bretagne, à la chute de l'empire romain.
   La langue anglo-saxonne, ou, substantivement, l'anglo-saxon, la langue germanique qui fut parlée dans la Bretagne à la suite de cette conquête. L'anglais est de l'anglo-saxon modifié par son mélange avec le vieux français, mélange produit par la conquête des Normands.
   En parlant de la race à laquelle appartiennent les Anglais et les Américains des Etats-Unis, on dit souvent que ce sont des Anglo-Saxons.

Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré. . 1872-1877.

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