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• peremptory 英文词源 peremptory peremptory: [16] Peremptory comes via Anglo- Norman peremptorie from Latin peremptōrius . This meant ‘destructive’, and was derived from perimere ‘take away completely’, a compound verb formed from the prefix per - ‘completely’ and emere ‘obtain’ (source of English example , exempt , prompt , etc). By extension it was used for ‘taking away all possibility
• perdure 英文词源 perdure "Remain in existence; endure", Late 15th century: from Old French perdurer , from Latin perdurare 'endure', from per- 'through' + durare 'to last'. 中文词源 perdure ：持久，持续  词根词缀： per-每… + -dur-持久 + -e 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： perdure 词源， perdure 含义。
• perdurable 英文词源 perdurable (adj.) mid-13c. (implied in perdurably ), from Old French pardurable "eternal, everlasting, perpetual" (12c.), from Late Latin perdurabilis , from perdurare , from per- , intensive prefix, + durare "to endure" (see endure ). 中文词源 perdurable ：永久的，耐久的  词根词缀： per-每… + -dur-持久 + -able形容词词尾 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词
• perceptive 英文词源 perceptive (adj.) 1650s, from Latin percept- , past participle stem of percipere (see perceive ) + -ive . In reference to intelligence from 1860. From mid-15c. as the name of a type of optical instrument. Related: Perceptively ; perceptiveness . 中文词源 perceptive ：感觉敏锐的，观察入微的，有洞察力的 词根词缀： per-完全,贯穿 + -cept-拿 + -ive形容词词
• perception 英文词源 perception (n.) late 14c., "receiving, collection," from Latin perceptionem (nominative perceptio ) "perception, apprehension, a taking," from percipere "perceive" (see perceive ). First used in the more literal sense of the Latin word; in secondary sense, "the taking cognizance of," it is recorded in English from 1610s. Meaning "intuitive or direct recognition of some innate quality"
• perceptible 英文词源 perceptible (adj.) early 15c., "perceptive," from Late Latin perceptibilis "perceptible," from Latin percept- , past participle stem of percipere (see perceive ). Meaning "capable of being perceived" is from c. 1600. Related: Perceptibly ; perceptibility . 中文词源 perceptible ：可察觉的，显而易见的 词根词缀： per-完全,贯穿 + -cept-拿 + -ible形容词词尾 该词
• percentage 英文词源 percentage (n.) 1789, from percent + -age . Sense of "profit, advantage" is from 1862. 中文词源 percentage ：百分比，百分率 词根词缀： per-每 + -cent-百 + -age名词词尾 词义辨异：percent 表示“百分之…”,相当于“%”,其前往往是一个具体的数字；percentage 表示“百分比,百分率”,其前不能是一个具体的数字，只能被h
• percent 英文词源 percent 1560s, per cent , from Modern Latin per centum "by the hundred" (see per and hundred ). Until early 20c. often treated as an abbreviation and punctuated accordingly. 中文词源 percent ：百分之… 词根词缀： per-每 + -cent-百 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： percent 词源， percent 含义。 percent ：百分比，百分率 per,每，-cent,百
• perceive 英文词源 perceive (v.) c. 1300, via Anglo-French parceif , Old North French *perceivre (Old French perçoivre ) "perceive, notice, see; recognize, understand," from Latin percipere "obtain, gather, seize entirely, take possession of," also, figuratively, "to grasp with the mind, learn, comprehend," literally "to take entirely," from per "thoroughly" (see per ) + capere "to grasp, take" (see ca
• pepper 英文词源 pepper pepper: [OE] The pepper vine is a native of the East Indies, and its name is oriental in origin too. It comes ultimately from Sanskrit pippalí , which meant ‘berry’, and hence ‘peppercorn’. It came west via Greek péperi and Latin piper , and was borrowed in prehistoric times into the West Germanic languages, giving German pfeffer , Dutch peper , and English pepper . I
• pensioner 英文词源 pensioner (n.) late 15c., from Anglo-French pensionner , from Old French pensionnier (mid-14c.), from Medieval Latin pensionarius , from pension (see pension (n.)). 中文词源 pensioner ：领养老金或抚恤金者   词根词缀： -pens-支付 + -ion名词词尾 + -er名词词尾,人 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： pensioner 词源， pensioner 含义。
• pension 英文词源 pension pension: see ponder pension (n.) mid-14c., "payment for services," especially "reward, payment out of a benefice" (early 14c., in Anglo-Latin), from Old French pension "payment, rent" (13c.) and directly from Latin pensionem (nominative pensio ) "a payment, installment, rent," from past participle stem of pendere "pay, weigh" (see pendant ). Meaning "regular payment in conside
• penitentiary 英文词源 penitentiary (n.) early 15c., "place of punishment for offenses against the church," from Medieval Latin penitentiaria , from fem. of penitentiarius (adj.) "of penance," from Latin paenitentia "penitence" (see penitence ). Meaning "house of correction" (originally an asylum for prostitutes) is from 1806, short for penitentiary house (1776). Slang shortening pen is attested from 1884. 中
• pendulum 英文词源 pendulum pendulum: [17] A pendulum is etymologically simply something that ‘hangs’. It is a noun use of the neuter form of the Latin adjective pendulus ‘hanging’ (source of English pendulous [18]). This was a derivative of the verb pendēre ‘hang’, which has contributed a wide range of words to English, among them penchant [17], pendant [14], pendent [15], pending [17], an
• penalty 英文词源 penalty penalty: see pain penalty (n.) mid-15c., from Middle French penalité and directly from Medieval Latin poenalitatem (nominative poenalitas ), from Latin poenalis (see penal ). The sporting sense is first recorded 1885. Ice hockey penalty box attested by 1931. 中文词源 penalty ：处罚，惩罚  词根词缀： -pen-惩罚 + -al形容词词尾 + -ty名词词尾 该词的英
• penal 英文词源 penal penal: see pain penal (adj.) "pertaining to punishment," mid-15c., from Old French peinal (12c., Modern French pénal ) and directly from Medieval Latin penalis , from Latin poenalis "pertaining to punishment," from poena "punishment," from Greek poine "blood-money, fine, penalty, punishment," from PIE *kwoina , from root *kwei- "to pay, atone, compensate" (cognates: Greek time
• pellucid 英文词源 pellucid (adj.) "transparent, translucent," 1610s, from Latin pellucidus "transparent," from pellucere "shine through," from per- "through" (see per ) + lucere "to shine" (see light (n.)). Related: Pellucidly ; pellucidity . 中文词源 pellucid ：透明的，澄清的，易懂的 词根词缀： pel(per-)完全,贯穿 + -luc-光,照 + -id形容词词尾 该词的英语词源请访问
• pedicure 英文词源 pedicure (n.) 1839, "one whose business is surgical care of feet" (removal of corns, bunions, etc.), from French pédicure , from Latin pes (genitive pedis ) "foot," from PIE root *ped- (1) "a foot" (see foot (n.)) + curare "to care for," from cura "care" (see cure (n.1.)). In reference to the treatment itself, attested from 1890; specifically as a beauty treatment, from 1900. 中文词
• pedestrian 英文词源 pedestrian (adj.) 1716, "prosaic, dull" (of writing), from Latin pedester (genitive pedestris ) "plain, not versified, prosaic," literally "on foot" (sense contrasted with equester "on horseback"), from pedes "one who goes on foot," from pes (genitive pedis ) "foot," from PIE root *ped- (1) "a foot" (see foot (n.)). Meaning "going on foot" is first attested 1791 in English (it also wa
• pedate 英文词源 pedate "Shaped like a foot, especially that of a bird; ( Botany ) designating or characterized by a leaf shape or venation pattern similar to a palmate or digitate arrangement, but with the lobes, leaflets, or veins not all arising from a single central point, the lateral divisions being further subdivided or fused near the base; (also) designating or characterized by the arrangement
• pedal 英文词源 pedal pedal: [17] Pedal is one of a group of English words which go back to Latin pēs ‘foot’ or its Romance descendants (to which English foot is related). Others include impede [17], pedestal [16] (which comes via French from Old Italian piedestallo , a conflation of pie di stallo ‘foot of a stall’), pedestrian [18], pedicure [19], pedigree , and pedometer [18]. = foot , imp
• peacock 英文词源 peacock peacock: [14] The original English name of the ‘peacock’ in the Anglo-Saxon period was pēa . This was borrowed from Latin pāvō , a word which appears to have been related to Greek taós ‘peacock’, and which also gave French paon , Italian pavone , and Spanish pavo ‘peacock’. The Old English word is presumed to have survived into Middle English, as * pe , althoug
• peaceful 英文词源 peaceful (adj.) early 14c., "inclined to peace, friendly, pacific," from peace + -ful . Meaning "tranquil, calm, full of peace" is from mid-14c. In reference to nonviolent methods of effecting social change, it is attested from 1876. Related: Peacefully ; peacefulness . Peaceful coexistence (1920) originally was in regard to Soviet policy toward the capitalist West. 中文词源 peace
• peace 英文词源 peace peace: [12] The etymological notion underlying peace is of ‘fastening’, so as to achieve a ‘stable’ condition. The word comes via Anglo-Norman pes from Latin pāx ‘peace’, which was derived from the same base, * pāk - ‘fasten’, as lies behind English pact , and is closely related to pagan , page , pale ‘stake’, and pole ‘stick’. Derivatives of Latin pāx
• pattern 英文词源 pattern pattern: [14] Etymologically, pattern and patron are the same word. When it arrived in Old French as patron (from Latin patrōnus ), it had roughly the range of senses of modern English patron , including that of ‘one who commissions work’. But it had also acquired one other. Someone who pays for work to be done often gives an example of what he wants for the workman to co
• patriotism 英文词源 patriotism (n.) 1726, from patriot + -ism . 中文词源 patriotism ：爱国精神，爱国心，爱国主义 词根词缀： -patr-父,祖国 + iot + -ism名词词尾 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： patriotism 词源， patriotism 含义。 patriotism ：爱国主义 来自patriot,同胞，爱国者，-ism,主义，思想。
• patriotic 英文词源 patriotic (adj.) 1650s, "of one's own country," from French patriotique or directly from Late Latin patrioticus , from Greek patriotikos , from patriotes (see patriot ). Meaning "loyal, supporting one's own country" is from 1757. Related: Patriotical . 中文词源 patriotic ：爱国的    词根词缀： -patr-父,祖国 + iot + -ic形容词词尾 该词的英语词源请访问趣词
• patriot 英文词源 patriot patriot: see patron patriot (n.) 1590s, "compatriot," from Middle French patriote (15c.) and directly from Late Latin patriota "fellow-countryman" (6c.), from Greek patriotes "fellow countryman," from patrios "of one's fathers," patris "fatherland," from pater (genitive patros ) "father" (see father (n.)); with -otes , suffix expressing state or condition. Liddell Scott write
• patriarch 英文词源 patriarch patriarch: see patron patriarch (n.) late 12c., from Old French patriarche "one of the Old Testament fathers" (11c.) and directly from Late Latin patriarcha (Tertullian), from Greek patriarkhes "chief or head of a family," from patria "family, clan," from pater "father" (see father (n.)) + arkhein "to rule" (see archon ). Also used as an honorific title of certain bishops in
• patient 英文词源 patient patient: [14] Etymologically, a patient is someone who is ‘suffering’. The word comes via Old French from the present participle of the Latin verb patī ‘suffer’ (source also of English passion and passive ). As an adjective it had already in Latin taken on its present-day sense of ‘bearing affliction with calmness’, but the medical connotations of the noun are a p
• patience 英文词源 patience (n.) c. 1200, "quality of being willing to bear adversities, calm endurance of misfortune, suffering, etc.," from Old French pacience "patience; sufferance, permission" (12c.) and directly from Latin patientia "patience, endurance, submission," also "indulgence, leniency; humility; submissiveness; submission to lust;" literally "quality of suffering." It is an abstract noun f
• pathos 英文词源 pathos pathos: see sympathy pathos (n.) "quality that arouses pity or sorrow," 1660s, from Greek pathos "suffering, feeling, emotion, calamity," literally "what befalls one," related to paskhein "to suffer," and penthos "grief, sorrow;" from PIE root *kwent(h)- "to suffer, endure" (cognates: Old Irish cessaim "I suffer," Lithuanian kenčiu "to suffer," pakanta "patience"). 中文词源
• pathology 英文词源 pathology (n.) "science of diseases," 1610s, from French pathologie (16c.), from medical Latin pathologia "study of disease," from Greek pathos "suffering" (see pathos ) + -logia "study" (see -logy ). In reference to the study of abnormal mental conditions from 1842. Ancient Greek pathologia was "study of the passions;" the Greek word for "science of diseases" was pathologike ("pathol
• pathetic 英文词源 pathetic (adj.) 1590s, "affecting the emotions, exciting the passions," from Middle French pathétique "moving, stirring, affecting" (16c.), from Late Latin patheticus, from Greek pathetikos "subject to feeling, sensitive, capable of emotion," from pathetos "liable to suffer," verbal adjective of pathein "to suffer" (see pathos ). Meaning "arousing pity, pitiful" is first recorded 173
• passport 英文词源 passport (n.) c. 1500, from Middle French passeport "authorization to pass through a port" to enter or leave a country (15c.), from passe , imperative of Old French passer "to pass" (see pass (v.)) + port "port" (see port (n.1)). 中文词源 passport ：护照 词根词缀： pass通过 + -port-港口 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： passport 词源， passport 含
• passive 英文词源 passive (adj.) late 14c., in grammatical sense (opposed to active ), Old French passif "suffering, undergoing hardship" (14c.) and directly from Latin passivus "capable of feeling or suffering," from pass- , past participle stem of pati "to suffer" (see passion ). Meaning "not active" is first recorded late 15c.; sense of "enduring suffering without resistance" is from 1620s. Related:
• passionate 英文词源 passionate (adj.) early 15c., "angry; emotional," from Medieval Latin passionatus "affected with passion," from Latin passio (genitive passionis ) "passion" (see passion ). Specific sense of "amorous" is attested from 1580s. Related: Passionately . 中文词源 passionate ：易激动的，多情的；易怒的，性情暴躁的；热情的，热烈的 词根词缀： -pass-激情 + -
• passion 英文词源 passion passion: [12] Latin patī meant ‘suffer’ (it is the source of English patient ). From its past participial stem pass - was coined in postclassical times the noun passiō , denoting specifically the ‘suffering of Christ on the cross’. English acquired the word via Old French passion , but its familiar modern senses, in which ‘strength of feeling’ has been transferre
• partnership 英文词源 partnership (n.) 1570s, from partner (n.) + -ship . In the commercial sense from c. 1700. 中文词源 partnership ：伙伴关系；合伙人身份；合作关系；合作；合伙企业 词根词缀： -part-分,局部 + ner + -ship状态,身份,技能 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： partnership 词源， partnership 含义。
• partner 英文词源 partner partner: [14] Partner is related to part – but not quite so directly as might appear. When it first entered the language it was in the form parcener [13], which remains in existence as a legal term meaning ‘joint heir’. This came via Anglo- Norman parcener ‘partner’ from Vulgar Latin * partiōnārius , a derivative of Latin partītiō ‘partition’ (source of Engli
• particular 英文词源 particular particular: [14] Latin particula (source of English parcel and particle ) was a diminutive form of pars ‘part’, and denoted ‘small part’. From it was derived the adjective particulāris , which denoted ‘concerned with small parts, or details’ (as opposed to ‘concerned with wider aspects of a matter’). English acquired it via Old French particuler . = part ,
• particle 英文词源 particle particle: see parcel particle (n.) late 14c., "small part or division of a whole, minute portion of matter," from Latin particula "little bit or part, grain, jot," diminutive of pars (genitive partis ) "part;" see part (n.). Particle physics attested from 1969. In construction, particle board (1957) is so called because it is made from chips and shavings of wood. 中文词源
• participate 英文词源 participate (v.) 1530s, back-formation from participation , or else from Latin participatus , past participle of participare "to share, share in, participate in; to impart," from particeps "partaking, sharing," from parti , past participle of partir "to divide" (see part (n.)) + -cip- , weak form of stem of capere "to take" (see capable ). Related: Participated ; participating . 中文词
• participant 英文词源 participant (adj.) 1540s, from Latin participantem (nominative participans ), present participle of participare "to share in, partake of," from particeps "sharing, partaking" (see participation ). participant (n.) 1560s, from Middle French participant , from Latin participantem (nominative participans ), present participle of participare "to share in, partake of" from particeps "shari
• partiality 英文词源 partiality (n.) "one-sidedness," early 15c., from Middle French parcialité , from Medieval Latin partialitatem (nominative partialitas ), from partialis (see partial ). 中文词源 partiality ：偏心，不公平，偏袒；偏爱，癖好，特别喜爱 词根词缀： -part-分,局部 + -ial形容词词尾 + -ity名词词尾 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：
• partial 英文词源 partial (adj.) early 15c., "one-sided, biased," from Old French parcial (14c., Modern French partial ), from Medieval Latin partialis "divisible, solitary, partial," from Latin pars (genitive partis ) "part" (see part (n.)). Sense of "not whole, incomplete" is attested from late 14c. Related: Partially (mid-15c. as "incompletely"). 中文词源 partial ：部分的，不完全的 词根
• part 英文词源 part part: [13] Latin pars , a possible relative of parāre ‘make ready’ (source of English prepare ), had a wide range of meanings – ‘piece’, ‘side’, ‘share’, etc – many of them shared by its English descendant part . The word was originally acquired in the late Old English period, but does not seem to have survived, and as we now have it was reborrowed via Old Fr
• parity 英文词源 parity parity: see pair parity (n.) 1570s, "equality of rank or status," from Middle French parité (14c.) or directly from Late Latin paritas "equality," from Latin adjective par (genitive paris ) "equal" (see pair (n.)). Meaning "condition in which adversaries have equal resources" is from 1955, originally in reference to the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. 中文词源 parity ：同等，同
• parental 英文词源 parental (adj.) 1620s, from Latin parentalis "of parents," from parens (see parent (n.)). Related: Parentally . 中文词源 parental ：父母亲的，做双亲的 词根词缀： -par-生育 + -ent名词词尾 + -al形容词词尾 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： parental 词源， parental 含义。
• parentage 英文词源 parentage (n.) late 15c., "parental conduct," from Middle French parentage (12c.), from parent (see parent ). Meaning "lineage" is from 1560s; figurative use from 1580s. 中文词源 parentage ：出身；门第 词根词缀： -par-生育 + -ent名词词尾 + -age名词词尾 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： parentage 词源， parentage 含义。 parentage ：家
• parent 英文词源 parent parent: [15] Latin parere meant ‘bring forth, give birth’. Its present participle was used to form a noun, parēns , which denoted literally ‘one who gives life to another’, hence a ‘mother’ or ‘father’. Its stem form parent - passed into English via Old French parent . Other English descendants of Latin parere (which is related to prepare ) include parturition ‘
• pardon 英文词源 pardon pardon: see date , forgive pardon (n.) late 13c., "papal indulgence," from Old French pardon , from pardoner "to grant; forgive" (11c., Modern French pardonner ), "to grant, forgive," from Vulgar Latin *perdonare "to give wholeheartedly, to remit," from Latin per- "through, thoroughly" (see per ) + donare "give, present" (see donation ). Meaning "passing over an offense without
• parasol 英文词源 parasol (n.) 1610s, from Middle French parasol (1570s), from Italian parasole , literally "protection from the sun," from para- "defense against" (see para- (2)) + sole "sun," from Latin solem (nominative sol ; see sol ). 中文词源 parasol ：(女用)阳伞 词根词缀： para-保护,防 + -sol-太阳 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： parasol 词源， parasol
• parameter 英文词源 parameter (n.) 1650s in geometry, from Modern Latin parameter (1630s), from Greek para- "beside, subsidiary" (see para- (1)) + metron "measure" (see meter (n.2)). A geometry term until 1920s when it yielded sense of "measurable factor which helps to define a particular system" (1927). Common modern meaning (influenced by perimeter ) of "boundary, limit, characteristic factor" is from
• paralyze 英文词源 paralyze (v.) 1804, from French paralyser (16c.), from Old French paralisie "paralysis," from Latin paralysis (see paralysis ). Figurative use from 1805. Related: Paralyzed ; paralyzing . 中文词源 paralyze ：使瘫痪，使麻痹，使丧失作用 词根词缀： paraly(sis) + -yze(重复的y去掉)动词词尾 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： paralyze 词源，
• paralysis 英文词源 paralysis (n.) 1520s, from Latin paralysis , from Greek paralysis "paralysis, palsy," literally "loosening," from paralyein "disable, enfeeble," from para- "beside" (see para- (1)) + lyein "loosen, untie" (see lose ). Figurative use from 1813. Earlier form was paralysie (late 14c., see palsy ). Old English equivalent was lyft adl (see left (adj.)) or crypelnes "crippleness." 中文词源
• parallel 英文词源 parallel parallel: [16] Etymologically, parallel simply means ‘beside each other’. It comes via French parallèle and Latin parallēlus from Greek parállēlos . This was a compound formed from pará ‘beside’ and allélōn ‘each other’, a derivative of állos ‘other’ (to which English else is distantly related). = else parallel (adj.) 1540s, from Middle French parallè
• paradox 英文词源 paradox (n.) 1530s, "statement contrary to common belief or expectation," from Middle French paradoxe (14c.) and directly from Latin paradoxum "paradox, statement seemingly absurd yet really true," from Greek paradoxon , noun use of neuter of adjective paradoxos "contrary to expectation, incredible," from para- "contrary to" (see para- (1)) + doxa "opinion," from dokein "to appear, se
• par 英文词源 par par: see pair par (n.) 1620s, "equality," also "value of one currency in terms of another," from Latin par "equal, equal-sized, well-matched," also as a noun, "that which is equal, equality," of unknown origin. Watkins suggests perhaps from PIE root *pere- (2) "to grant, allot," with suggestion of reciprocality (see part (n.)). Another guess connects it with PIE root *per- "to tra
• pannier 英文词源 pannier pannier: [13] Etymologically, a pannier is something for carrying ‘bread’ in. It comes via Old French pannier from Latin pānārium ‘breadbasket’, a derivative of pānis ‘bread’. This originally meant simply ‘food’ (it came from the same ultimate source as Latin pābulum ‘food’, borrowed into English in the 17th century, and English food ); ‘bread’ was
• panel 英文词源 panel panel: [13] Etymologically, a panel is nothing more than a ‘small pane’. It comes via Old French from Vulgar Latin * pannellus , a diminutive form of Latin pannus ‘rag’ (source of English pane [13]). Both panel and pane entered English with their original ‘cloth’ connotations intact, but they have now virtually died out, surviving only in the compound counterpane (wh
• pandemic 英文词源 pandemic (adj.) 1660s, from Late Latin pandemus , from Greek pandemos "pertaining to all people; public, common," from pan- "all" (see pan- ) + demos "people" (see demotic ). Modeled on epidemic . The noun is first recorded 1853, from the adjective. 中文词源 pandemic ：全国流行的；大范围传染的 词根词缀： pan-总,全,泛 + -dem-人民 + -ic形容词词尾 该词的英
• pan 英文词源 pan pan: [OE] Pan is a general West Germanic word, with relatives in German ( pfanne ) and Dutch ( pan ), and also, by borrowing, in Swedish ( panna ) and Danish ( pande ). It may have been borrowed into Germanic from Latin patina ‘dish’ (source of English paten [13] and patina [18]), which itself went back to Greek patánē ‘plate, dish’. The verbal use pan out ‘turn out, s
• pallet 英文词源 pallet pallet: see pale pallet (n.1) "mattress," late 14c., from Anglo-French paillete "straw, bundle of straw," Old French paillet "chaff, bundle of straw," from paille "straw" (12c.), from Latin palea "chaff," perhaps cognate with Sanskrit palavah , Old Church Slavonic pleva , Russian peleva , Lithuanian pelus . pallet (n.2) "flat wooden blade" used as a tool by potters, etc., early
• pale 英文词源 pale pale: English has two words pale . The adjective [13] comes via Old French from Latin pallidus (source also of English appal – originally ‘turn pale’ – pall ‘become wearisome’ [14] – originally a shortening of appal – and pallid [17]). This was a derivative of the verb pallēre ‘be pale’, which was descended from * pol -, * pel -, the same Indo-European base a
• pacify 英文词源 pacify pacify: see peace pacify (v.) late 15c., "appease, allay the anger of (someone)," from Middle French pacifier "make peace," from Latin pacificare "to make peace; pacify," from pacificus (see pacific ). Of countries or regions, "to bring to a condition of calm," c. 1500, from the start with suggestions of submission and terrorization. Related: Pacified ; pacifying . 中文词源
• pacifist 英文词源 pacifist (n.) 1903, from French pacifiste (see pacifism ). Related: Pacifistic (1902). 中文词源 pacifist ：和平主义者  词根词缀： -pac-和平 + -ify动词词尾(y略) + -ist名词词尾,从事某一工作的人 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： pacifist 词源， pacifist 含义。 pacifist ：和平主义者，绥靖主义者 来自pacify,平息，安
• pacific 英文词源 pacific pacific: see peace pacific (adj.) 1540s, "tending to make peace," from Middle French pacifique , from Latin pacificus "peaceful, peace-making," from pax (genitive pacis ) "peace" (see peace ) + root of facere "to make" (see factitious ). Meaning "peaceful, calm" is first recorded 1630s. Related: Pacifical (mid-15c.); pacifically . 中文词源 pacific ：和平的，平静的 词
• Pallas 英文词源 Pallas Greek goddess' name, literally "little maiden," related to pallake "concubine," and probably somehow connected to Avestan pairika "beautiful women seducing pious men." 中文词源 Pallas ：被雅典娜误杀的仙女帕拉斯 希腊神话中，战争女神雅典娜（Athena）出生时就全副武装，所以她小时候喜欢的并不是一般女孩子喜欢的文静游戏，而
• Poseidon 英文词源 Poseidon (n.) Greek god of the sea and earthquakes, Greek Poseidon (Doric Poteidan ), of uncertain origin. 中文词源 Poseidon ：希腊神话中的海神波塞冬 希腊神话中，海神波塞冬（Poseidon）是众神之主宙斯的哥哥，地位仅次于宙斯。他与宙斯及其他兄弟姐妹推翻父亲克洛诺斯的统治后，分得了大海的统治权。他威力巨大，
• Philotes 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random accoutre accoutre: [16] Accoutre is related to both couture and sew . English borrowed it from French accoutrer , which meant ‘equip with something, especially clothes’. A stage earlier, Old French had acoustrer , formed from cousture (whence couture ) and the prefix a -. This came from Vulgar Latin * consūtūra , literally
• Prometheus 英文词源 Prometheus demigod (son of the Titan Iapetus) who made man from clay and stole fire from heaven and taught mankind its use, for which he was punished by Zeus by being chained to a rock in the Caucasus, where a vulture came every day and preyed on his liver. The name is Greek, and anciently was interpreted as literally "forethinker, foreseer," from promethes "thinking before," from pro
• pickle 英文词源 pickle (n.) c. 1400, probably from Middle Dutch pekel "pickle, brine," or related words in Low German and East Frisian (Dutch pekel , East Frisian päkel , German pökel ), of uncertain origin or original meaning. Klein suggests the name of a medieval Dutch fisherman who developed the process. Originally a sauce served with meat or fowl; meaning "cucumber preserved in pickle" first re
• plimsoll 英文词源 plimsoll plimsoll: [20] The British politician and social reformer Samuel Plimsoll (1824–98) was one of the leading instigators of the Merchant Shipping Act 1876. Amongst its provisions was that a line should be painted round the hulls of ships to indicate a safe limit for loading. This was Plimsoll’s idea, and it became known as the Plimsoll line . It is thought that the word pli
• petunia 英文词源 petunia petunia: see tobacco petunia (n.) 1825, from Modern Latin Petunia (1789), from French petun (16c.), an obsolete word for "tobacco plant," from Portuguese petum , evidently from Guarani (Paraguay) pety . The petunia has a botanical affinity to the tobacco plant. See tobacco . 中文词源 petunia ：矮牵牛 ; petunia 矮牵牛 这是一种热带观赏植物，形似烟草。1
• period 英文词源 period period: [14] Period means etymologically ‘going round’. It comes via Old French periode and Latin periodus from Greek períodos , a compound noun formed from the prefix perí - ‘round’ and hódos ‘way’ (source also of English episode , exodus [17], and method ). The main sense of the word in modern English, ‘interval of time’ (which first emerged in post-classic
• pamphlet 英文词源 pamphlet pamphlet: [14] The original ‘pamphlet’ was Pamphilus , a short anonymous Latin love poem of the 12th century. It was very popular and widely reproduced, and its name was adapted in the vernacular to Pamflet ; and by the end of the 14th century this was being used generically for any text shorter than a book. The word’s more restricted modern connotations (‘unbound’
• potato 英文词源 potato potato: [16] Potato was originally the English name for the ‘sweet potato’ (when Falstaff in Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor 1598 cried ‘Let the sky rain potatoes!’ it was to the sweet potato, and its supposed aphrodisiac properties, that he was referring). It did not begin to be used for the vegetable we now know as the potato until the very end of the 16th cent
• pajamas 英文词源 pajamas (n.) 1800, pai jamahs "loose trousers tied at the waist," worn by Muslims in India and adopted by Europeans there, especially for nightwear, from Hindi pajama , probably from Persian paejamah , literally "leg clothing," from pae "leg" (from PIE root *ped- (1) "foot," see foot (n.)) + jamah "clothing." Modern spelling (U.S.) is from 1845. British spelling tends toward pyjamas .
• pillow 英文词源 pillow pillow: [OE] Pillow in a recognizable form emerged in the 14th century. It was based on an inflected form of Old English pyle ‘pillow’. This came via a prehistoric West Germanic * pulwīn (source also of German pfühl and Dutch peluw ‘pillow’) from Latin pulvīnus ‘pillow’, a word of unknown origin. pillow (n.) Middle English pilwe , from Old English pyle "pillow,"
• plate 英文词源 plate plate: [13] Etymologically, a plate is something ‘flat’. It comes from Vulgar Latin * plattus ‘flat’, which may go back to Greek platús ‘broad’ (source of English place , plane the tree, and platypus ). It reached English via two separate Old French words, which have since coalesced: first plate , which gives the sense ‘flat sheet’, as in silver plate and plate
• purse 英文词源 purse purse: [OE] Purse was borrowed into Old English from late Latin bursa (source of English bursar [13] and reimburse [17]), which went back to Greek búrsa . This originally meant ‘skin, leather’, and hence came to be used for ‘wineskin, bag’. The Latin word was also borrowed into the Celtic languages, where it produced Gaelic sporan , source of English sporran . = bursar
• porcelain 英文词源 porcelain porcelain: [16] The bizarre history of the word porcelain leads us back to a pig’s vagina. It was originally applied to fine china in Italian, as porcellana . This meant literally ‘cowrie shell’, and was used for the china in allusion to its shelllike sheen. Porcellana was a derivative of porcella ‘little sow’, a diminutive form of porca ‘sow’ (to which English
• pakace 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random regal regal: [14] Regal and royal are doublets: that is to say, they come from the same ultimate source, but have diverged over the centuries. This source was rēgālis , a derivative of Latin rēx ‘king’. This came from Indo-European * rēg -, which also produced the Sanskrit ancestor of English rajah , and was a lengthened
• palace 英文词源 palace palace: [13] The Palātium , or Mons Palātīnus (in English the ‘Palatine hill’), was one of the seven hills of ancient Rome. On it the emperor Augustus built a house, which in due course grew into a grand imperial palace, also called the Palātium . This came to be used as a generic term for such residences, and passed into English via Old French paleis . The derived Lati
• pansy 英文词源 pansy pansy: [15] French pensée means literally ‘thought’, and it was presumably the pensive look of these flowers of the viola family that earned them the name. English originally took it over as pensee , but later anglicized it to pansy . The use of the word for an effeminate male homosexual dates from the 1920s. French pensée itself is the feminine past participle of penser ‘
• pants 英文词源 pants pants: [19] Pants is short for pantaloons , a term used since the 17th century for men’s nether garments. The word originated in the name of a character in the old Italian commedia dell’arte, Pantalone , a silly old man with thin legs who encased them in tight trousers. English took the word over via French pantalon , and began to use it for ‘tight breeches or trousers’.
• peach 英文词源 peach peach: [14] Etymologically, the peach is the ‘Persian’ fruit. The word comes via Old French peche from medieval Latin persica , an alteration of an earlier persicum ‘peach’. This was short for mālum Persicum , literally ‘Persian apple’, reflecting the fact that the peach, a native of China, first became widely known in Europe when it had reached Persia on its westwa
• pell- mell 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random stuff stuff: [14] Stuff is ultimately the same word as stop . It comes via Old French estoffer and prehistoric Germanic * stopfōn , earlier * stoppōn (source of English stop ), from late Latin stuppāre ‘plug, stop up’. This originally denoted literally ‘stop up a hole with a plug of coarse fibres’, for it was derived
• penguin 英文词源 penguin penguin: [16] Penguin is one of the celebrated mystery words of English etymology. It first appears towards the end of the 16th century (referring to the ‘great auk’ as well as to the ‘penguin’) in accounts of voyages to the southern oceans, but no one has ever ascertained where it came from. A narrative of 1582 noted ‘The countrymen call them Penguins (which seemeth