英文词源
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- aquamarine
- aquamarine: [19] Aquamarine means literally ‘sea water’ – from Latin aqua marīna. Its first application in English was to the precious stone, a variety of beryl, so named because of its bluish-green colour. The art critic John Ruskin seems to have been the first to use it with reference to the colour itself, in Modern Painters 1846. (The French version of the word, aiguemarine, was actually used in English somewhat earlier, in the mid 18th century, but it did not long survive the introduction of the Latin version.) Latin aqua ‘water’ has of course contributed a number of other words to English, notably aquatic [15] (from Latin aquāticus), aqualung (coined around 1950), aquarelle [19] (via Italian acquerella ‘water colour’), aquatint [18] (literally ‘dyed water’), aqueduct [16] (from Latin aquaeductus), and aqueous [17] (a medieval Latin formation); it is related to Old English ēa ‘water’ and īg ‘island’, and is of course the source of French eau, Italian acqua, and Spanish agua.
中文词源
Hygeia：希腊神话中的健康女神许革亚
Hygeia（许革亚，又译为海吉亚）是希腊神话中的健康女神，是医术之神 Asclepius（阿斯克勒庇俄斯）的女儿，其形象为年轻女子，身着白色长衣(白大褂)，头戴祭司冠，用饭碗喂着一条蛇。因此直至今天碗里装着一条蛇有时仍用作医学的象征。
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