英语词源

• montage 英文词源 montage (n.) 1929, from French montage "a mounting," from Old French monter "to go up, mount" (see mount (v.)). Originally a term in cinematography. 中文词源 montage ：蒙太奇手法，剪辑组合物 来自法语montage,安装，镶嵌，嵌入，词源同mount,mountain.原为建筑学术语，一种建筑装配风格，后用于指电影的剪辑手法。 该词的英语词源请
• monstrous 英文词源 monstrous (adj.) mid-15c., "unnatural, deviating from the natural order, hideous," from Middle French monstrueux , from Latin monstruosus "strange, unnatural, monstrous," from monstrum (see monster ). Meaning "enormous" is from c. 1500; that of "outrageously wrong" is from 1570s. Earlier form monstruous (late 14c., from Old French monstruous ) was "very common in the 16th c." [OED]. 中
• monstrosity 英文词源 monstrosity (n.) 1550s, "abnormality of growth," from Late Latin monstrositas "strangeness," from Latin monstrosus , a collateral form of monstruosus (source of French monstruosité ); see monster . Earlier form was monstruosity (c. 1400). Sense of "quality of being monstrous" is first recorded 1650s. Meaning "a monster" is attested from 1640s. 中文词源 monstrosity ：巨大而丑陋
• mons pubis 英文词源 mons pubis "The rounded mass of fatty tissue lying over the joint of the pubic bones, in women typically more prominent and also called the mons Veneris", Late 19th century: Latin, 'mount of the pubes'. 中文词源 mons pubis ：阴阜 mons,山，隆起，词源同mountain,pubis,耻骨。比喻用法。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： mons pubis 词源， mons
• monsoon 英文词源 monsoon (n.) 1580s, "trade wind of the Indian Ocean," from Dutch monssoen , from Portuguese monçao , from Arabic mawsim "time of year, appropriate season" (for a voyage, pilgrimage, etc.), from wasama "he marked." When it blows from the southwest (April through October) it brings heavy rain, hence "heavy episode of rainfall during the rainy season" (1747). 中文词源 monsoon ：季风
• Monsignor 英文词源 monsignor (n.) title conferred on some prelates, 1640s, from Italian monsignore "my lord," formed on model of French monseigneur (see monseigneur ) from equivalent elements in Italian. 中文词源 Monsignor ：蒙席（天主教会授予某些圣职人员的荣誉头衔） 来自monseigneur的意大利语形式。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： Monsignor 词源，
• monsieur 英文词源 monsieur monsieur: see sir monsieur (n.) 1510s, from French monsieur , from mon sieur "my lord," from sieur "lord," shortened form of seigneur (see monseigneur ) It was the historical title for the second son or next younger brother of the king of France. 中文词源 monsieur ：先生，绅士 缩写自monseigneur. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： monsieur 词源
• monseigneur 英文词源 monseigneur (n.) c. 1600, from French monseigneur (12c.), title of honor equivalent to "my lord," from mon "my" (from Latin meum ) + seigneur "lord," from Latin seniorem , accusative of senior "older" (see senior (adj.)). Plural messeigneurs . 中文词源 monseigneur ：阁下，大人 一种敬称。来自法语monseigneur,来自mon,我的，词源同me,seigneur,大人，词源同se
• monozygotic twin 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random dilatory dilatory: see defer 中文词源 monozygotic twin ：单卵双生 mono-,单个的，zygote,合子，受精卵，twin,双胞胎。即正常理解的双胞胎。比较dizygotic twin. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： monozygotic twin 词源， monozygotic twin 含义。
• monounsaturated fat 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random range range: [13] Range and rank come ultimately from the same source: Old French ranc . This was borrowed directly into English as rank , but it subsequently developed to rang , from which was derived the verb rangier ‘set in a row’ (ancestor of English arrange ). This in turn produced the noun range ‘rank, row’. = rank
• monotreme 英文词源 monotreme "A primitive mammal that lays large yolky eggs and has a common opening for the urogenital and digestive systems. Monotremes are now restricted to Australia and New Guinea, and comprise the platypus and the echidnas", Mid 19th century: from mono- 'single' + Greek trēma 'hole'. 中文词源 monotreme ：单孔目动物（卵生哺乳动物） mono-,单个的，-treme,洞，来
• monotony 英文词源 monotony (n.) 1706, originally in transferred sense of "wearisome, tiresome," from French monotonie (1670s), from Greek monotonia "sameness of tone, monotony," from monotonos "monotonous, of one tone," from monos "single, alone" (see mono- ) + tonos "tone" (see tenet ). Literal sense of "sameness of tone or pitch" in English is from 1724. 中文词源 monotony ：单调乏味 来自mo
• monotonous 英文词源 monotonous (adj.) 1750, of sound, from Greek monotonos "of one tone" (see monotony ). Transferred and figurative use, "lacking in variety, uninteresting," is from 1783. Related: Monotonously . 中文词源 monotonous ：单调的 来自monotone,单调。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： monotonous 词源， monotonous 含义。 monotonous ：单调的，无变化的
• monotone 英文词源 monotone (n.) "unvarying tone in music or speaking," 1640s; see monotony . OED says use of the word as a noun "is peculiar to Eng." Related: Monotonic ; monotonically . 中文词源 monotone ：单一声调，单调 mono-,单个的，tone,调子。用于比喻义单调。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： monotone 词源， monotone 含义。 monotone ：单调，乏
• monotheism 英文词源 monotheism (n.) "belief that there is but one god," 1650s, from Greek mono- , comb. form of monos "single, alone" (see mono- ) + theos "a god" (see theo- ). 中文词源 monotheism ：一神教 mono-,单个的，theism,有神论。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： monotheism 词源， monotheism 含义。
• monosyllable 英文词源 monosyllable (n.) 1530s, from Latin monosyllabus "of one syllable," from Greek monosyllabos , from monos "single, alone" (see mono- ) + syllabe "syllable" (see syllable ). 中文词源 monosyllable ：单音节 mono-,单个的，syllable,音节。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： monosyllable 词源， monosyllable 含义。
• monosyllabic 英文词源 monosyllabic (adj.) 1824, of languages; 1828, of words; 1870, of persons, from monosyllable + -ic . Earlier form was monosyllabical (1680s, of words). Related: Monosyllabically . 中文词源 monosyllabic ：单音节的 来自monosyllable,单音节。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： monosyllabic 词源， monosyllabic 含义。
• monosodium glutamate 英文词源 umami "A category of taste in food (besides sweet, sour, salt, and bitter), corresponding to the flavour of glutamates, especially monosodium glutamate", Japanese, literally 'deliciousness'. 中文词源 monosodium glutamate ：谷氨酸一钠，味精 mono-,单个的，sodium,钠，glutamate,谷胺酸盐，来自gluten,谷物胶，-ate,盐。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英
• monorail 英文词源 monorail (n.) 1897, a hybrid coined from mono- + rail (n.1). 中文词源 monorail ：单轨列车 mono-,单个的，rail,轨道。即单轨，代指单轨列车。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： monorail 词源， monorail 含义。
• Monopoly money 英文词源 Monopoly money "Money regarded as having no real existence or value", From the imitation money used in the game of Monopoly (see monopoly (sense 2) ). 中文词源 Monopoly money ：假钞票 来自“大富翁游戏”中使用的游戏币。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： Monopoly money 词源， Monopoly money 含义。
• monopoly 英文词源 monopoly (n.) "exclusive control of a commodity or trade," 1530s, from Latin monopolium , from Greek monopolion "right of exclusive sale," from mono- + polein "to sell," from PIE root *pel- (5) "to sell" (cognates: Sanskrit panate "barters, purchases," Lithuanian pelnas "gain," Old Church Slavonic splenu , Russian polon "prey, booty," Old Norse falr , Dutch veil , German feil "for sal
• monopolize 英文词源 monopolize (v.) 1610s; see monopoly + -ize . Figurative use from 1620s. Related: Monopolized ; monopolizing ; monopolization . 中文词源 monopolize ：垄断，独占 来自monopoly,垄断。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： monopolize 词源， monopolize 含义。 monopolize ：独占，垄断 词根词缀： -mon-单一 + -o- + poly卖(y略) + -ize动词词尾
• monoplane 英文词源 monoplane (n.) 1907, a hybrid coined from mono- + second element of aeroplane . In old planes the wings formed a single surface running across the fuselage. 中文词源 monoplane ：单翼机 mono-,单个的，plane,飞机。专有名词，用于指只有一对翼的小飞机。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： monoplane 词源， monoplane 含义。
• mononucleosis 英文词源 mononucleosis (n.) 1920, coined from mononuclear + Modern Latin -osis "abnormal condition." 中文词源 mononucleosis ：单核细胞增多症 来自mononuclear,单核细胞，-osis,疾病症状。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： mononucleosis 词源， mononucleosis 含义。
• mononuclear 英文词源 mononuclear (adj.) 1886; see mono- + nuclear . 中文词源 mononuclear ：单核细胞 mono-,单个的，nuclear,核的。即单核的，引申词义单核细胞。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： mononuclear 词源， mononuclear 含义。
• monomania 英文词源 monomania (n.) "insanity in regard to a single subect or class of subjects," 1820, probably on model of earlier French monomanie , from Modern Latin monomania , from Greek monos "single, alone" (see mono- ) + mania (see mania ). 中文词源 monomania ：单狂，偏狂 mono-,单个的，mania,发狂。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： monomania 词源， monoman
• monologue 英文词源 monologue (n.) 1660s, "long speech by one person," from French monologue , from Late Greek monologos "speaking alone," from Greek monos "single, alone" (see mono- ) + logos "speech, word," from legein "to speak" (see lecture (n.)). 中文词源 monologue ：独白，独角戏 mono-,单个的，-logue,对话，词源同dialogue.引申词义独白，独角戏。 该词的英语词源请访
• monolith 英文词源 monolith monolith: see lithograph monolith (n.) "column consisting of a single large block of stone," 1848, from French monolithe (16c.), from Latin monolithus (adj.) "consisting of a single stone," from Greek monolithos "made of one stone," from monos "single, alone" (see mono- ) + lithos "stone." Transferred and figurative use is from 1934. 中文词源 monolith ：单块巨石，单一
• monolingual 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random belle belle: see beauty 中文词源 monolingual ：单语言的 mono-,单个的，-ling, 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： monolingual 词源， monolingual 含义。 monolingual ：仅用一种语言的，仅懂一种语言的 词根词缀： mono-单 + -lingu-语言 + -al形容词词尾
• monograph 英文词源 monograph (n.) "treatise on a single subject," 1821, from mono- + -graph "something written." Earlier was monography (1773). 中文词源 monograph ：专著，专论 mono-,单个的，-graph,写，词源同telegraph.引申词义专著，专论。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： monograph 词源， monograph 含义。
• monogram 英文词源 monogram (n.) "two or more letters intertwined," 1690s, from French monogramme or directly from Late Latin monogramma (5c.), from Late Greek monogrammon "a character formed of several letters in one design," especially in reference to the signature of the Byzantine emperors, noun use of neuter of monogrammos (adj.) "consisting of a single letter," literally "drawn with single lines,"
• monoglot 英文词源 monoglot "Using or speaking only one language", Mid 19th century: from Greek monoglōttos , from monos 'single' + glōtta 'tongue'. 中文词源 monoglot ：只会说一种语言的人 mono-,单个的，-glot,舌头，语言，词源同glottis,glossary. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： monoglot 词源， monoglot 含义。
• monogamy 英文词源 monogamy (n.) 1610s, from French monogamie , from Late Latin monogamia , from Greek monogamia , from monogamos "marrying only once," from monos "single, alone" (see mono- ) + gamos "marriage" (see gamete ). 中文词源 monogamy ：单配偶，一夫一妻制 mono-,单个的，-gamy,配对，词源同gamete,bigamy. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： monogamy 词源，
• monocyte 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random copper copper: [OE] A major source of copper in the ancient world was the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, so the Romans called it cyprium aes ‘metal of Cyprus’. This became cuprum in late Latin, from which it was borrowed into prehistoric West and North Germanic as * kupar , source of Old English coper . ( Copper the slang t
• monocycle 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random philately philately: [19] When a Monsieur Herpin, a French stamp-collector, was looking for an impressive and learned-sounding term for his hobby, he was hampered by the fact that the Greeks and Romans did not have postage stamps, and therefore there was no classical term for them. So he decided to go back a stage beyond stamps,
• monoculture 英文词源 monoculture (n.) "cultivation of a single crop when others are possible," 1915, from mono- "single" + culture (n.). 中文词源 monoculture ：单种栽培，一元化社会 mono-,单个的，culture,文化，栽培。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： monoculture 词源， monoculture 含义。
• monocotyledon 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random stove stove: [15] Stove probably goes back ultimately to Vulgar Latin * extūfāre ‘take a steam bath’ (source also of English stew ). From this was derived a noun denoting a ‘heated room used for such baths’, which was disseminated widely throughout the Romance and Germanic languages. In its modern German and Danish des
• monocle 英文词源 monocle (n.) "single eyeglass," 1886, from French monocle , noun use of adjective monocle "one-eyed, blind in one eye" (13c.), from Late Latin monoculus "one-eyed," from Greek monos "single, alone" (see mono- ) + Latin oculus "eye" (see eye (n.)). That this, a hybrid, a Gallicism, and a word with no obvious meaning to the Englishman who hears it for the first time, should have ousted
• monochrome 英文词源 monochrome (n.) 1660s, "painting or drawing done in different tints of a single color," from Greek monochromos "of a single color," from monos "single, alone" (see mono- ) + khroma (genitive khromatos ) "color, complexion, skin" (see chroma ). As an adjective from 1849. Photographic sense is recorded from 1940. 中文词源 monochrome ：单色，黑白色 mono-,单个的，-chrome,颜色
• monkish 英文词源 monkish (adj.) "pertaining to a monk," 1540s, from monk (n.) + -ish . Related: Monkishly ; monkishness . 中文词源 monkish ：僧侣的 来自monk,僧侣，-ish,形容词后缀。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： monkish 词源， monkish 含义。
• monkey wrench 英文词源 monkey (n.) 1520s, likely from an unrecorded Middle Low German *moneke or Middle Dutch *monnekijn , a colloquial word for "monkey," originally a diminutive of some Romanic word, compare French monne (16c.); Middle Italian monnicchio , from Old Italian monna ; Spanish mona "ape, monkey." In a 1498 Low German version of the popular medieval beast story Roman de Renart ("Reynard the Fox"
• monkey puzzle 英文词源 monkey puzzle "An evergreen coniferous tree with branches covered in spirals of tough spiny leaf-like scales, native to Chile", Mid 19th century: said to be so named in response to a remark that an attempt to climb the tree would puzzle a monkey. 中文词源 monkey puzzle ：猴谜树，智利南洋杉 智利国树，比喻用法。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：
• monkey nut 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random skewbald skewbald: [17] Skewbald , which denotes a horse with brown and white patches, is a compound formed (on the model of piebald ) from an earlier skued ‘skewbald’ and bald (in the ancestral sense ‘having white patches on the coat’). It is not clear where skued came from. One candidate as its ancestor is Old French e
• monkey in the middle 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random Celsius Celsius: [19] The notion of a temperature scale based on 100 was developed by the Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius (1701–44) (he originally had water boiling at zero and freezing at 100º, but this was later reversed). His name began to be used to designate the scale in English around the middle of the 19th century. I
• monkey business 英文词源 monkey (n.) 1520s, likely from an unrecorded Middle Low German *moneke or Middle Dutch *monnekijn , a colloquial word for "monkey," originally a diminutive of some Romanic word, compare French monne (16c.); Middle Italian monnicchio , from Old Italian monna ; Spanish mona "ape, monkey." In a 1498 Low German version of the popular medieval beast story Roman de Renart ("Reynard the Fox"
• monkey 英文词源 monkey monkey: [16] No one is too sure where monkey came from. Spanish has mono ‘monkey’, and Old Italian had monno ‘monkey’, both probably borrowed from Arabic maimūn ‘monkey’, and it could be that an ancestor of these was borrowed into Low German and given the diminutive suffix - ke . This would account for monkey . No related Germanic form has been found to substantiat
• monk 英文词源 monk monk: [OE] Etymologically, a monk is someone who lives ‘alone’. The word comes ultimately from late Greek mónachos ‘solitary person, hermit’, which was derived from Greek mónos ‘alone’ (source of the English prefix mono -). It passed into late Latin as monachus (by which time it had come to denote ‘monk’), and eventually found its way to Old English as munuc –
• monitor 英文词源 monitor monitor: see monster monitor (n.) 1540s, "senior pupil at a school charged with keeping order, etc.," from Latin monitor "one who reminds, admonishes, or checks," also "an overseer, instructor, guide, teacher," agent noun from monere "to admonish, warn, advise," related to memini "I remember, I am mindful of," and to mens "mind," from PIE root *men- "to think" (see mind (n.)).
• monism 英文词源 monism (n.) "the philosophical doctrine that there is only one principle," 1862, from Modern Latin monismus , from Greek monos "alone" (see mono- ). First used in German by German philosopher Baron Christian von Wolff (1679-1754). 中文词源 monism ：一元论 来自希腊语monas,单个的，-ism,主义，思想。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： monism 词源
• moniker 英文词源 moniker (n.) 1849, said to be originally a hobo term (but attested in London underclass from 1851), of uncertain origin; perhaps from monk (monks and nuns take new names with their vows, and early 19c. British tramps referred to themselves as "in the monkery"). Its origins seem always to have been obscure: Sir H. Rawlinson can decipher cuneiform, but can he tell us why "moniker"--the
• monied 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random emotion emotion: [16] The semantic notion underlying emotion – of applying ‘physical movement’ metaphorically to ‘strong feeling’ – is an ancient one: Latin used the phrase mōtus animā , literally ‘movement of the spirit’, in this sense. Emotion itself is a post-classical Latin formation; it comes ultimately fr
• mongrel 英文词源 mongrel mongrel: [15] The etymological notion underlying mongrel is of a ‘mixture’. For the word goes back ultimately to the prehistoric Germanic base * mong - ‘mix’, which also produced English among and mingle [14]. = among , mingle mongrel (n.) late 15c., "mixed-breed dog," from obsolete mong "mixture," from Old English gemong "mingling" (base of among ), from Proto-Germani
• mongoose 英文词源 mongoose (n.) "snake-killing ichneumon of India," 1690s, perhaps via Portuguese, from an Indic language (such as Mahrathi mangus "mongoose"), probably ultimately from Dravidian (compare Telugu mangisu , Kanarese mungisi , Tamil mangus ). The form of the English word altered by folk-etymology. 中文词源 mongoose ：猫鼬 来自南印度泰卢固语mumgisa.拼写受英语影响俗化。
• mongol 英文词源 Mongol 1738 (n.); 1763 (adj.), native name, said to be from mong "brave." 中文词源 mongol ：唐氏综合症患者 来自Mongol,蒙古人。用该词来命名这种疾病，带有强烈的冒犯色彩，同时也体现了欧洲人对蒙古人又恨又怕的心理。比较Genghis Khan,成吉思汗，在英语里面为残酷，残忍的代名词。现多用其学名Down’s Syndrome
• monger 英文词源 monger (n.) Old English mangere "merchant, trader, broker," from mangian "to traffic, trade," from Proto-Germanic *mangojan (cognates: Old Saxon mangon , Old Norse mangari "monger, higgler"), from Latin mango (genitive mangonis ) "dealer, trader, slave-dealer," related to mangonium "displaying of wares." Not in Watkins, but Buck (with Tucker) describes it as "one who adorns his wares
• moneymaker 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random shrewd shrewd: [14] Shrewd originally meant ‘wicked, dangerous’. Its modern sense ‘astute’ did not develop (via a less approbatory ‘cunning’) until the 16th century. It was derived from shrew ‘wicked man’ (a sense now obsolete). This is generally assumed to be the same noun as shrew the animal-name [OE], a word o
• moneylender 英文词源 bank bank: [12] The various disparate meanings of modern English bank all come ultimately from the same source, Germanic * bangk -, but they have taken different routes to reach us. Earliest to arrive was ‘ridge, mound, bordering slope’, which came via a hypothetical Old Norse * banki . Then came ‘bench’ [13] (now obsolete except in the sense ‘series of rows or tiers’ –
• money-grubbing 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random yoghurt yoghurt: [17] It has taken a long time for yoghurt to settle down orthographically, and the process is not yet complete. It was originally acquired (from Turkish yoghurt ) in the 1620s as yoghurd , and since then spellings such as yaghourt , yooghort , yughard , yohourth , and yaourt (reflecting the fact that Turkish gh
• moneybags 英文词源 money-bag (n.) 1560s, from money + bag (n.). Meaning "rich person" is from 1818. Related: moneybags . 中文词源 moneybags ：大款 比喻用法。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： moneybags 词源， moneybags 含义。
• money-back guarantee 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random precede precede: [14] Precede is one of a large family of English words (including concede , proceed , succeed , and of course cede ) which go back ultimately to Latin cēdere ‘go away, withdraw, yield’. In this case the ancestor was Latin praecēdere ‘go before’, a compound verb formed with the prefix prae - ‘before’
• monetary 英文词源 monetary (adj.) "pertaining to money," 1802, from Late Latin monetarius "pertaining to money," originally "of a mint," from Latin moneta "mint, coinage" (see money ). Related: Monetarily . 中文词源 monetary ：货币的，钱的 来自拉丁语moneta,硬币，铸币，铸币处，词源同mint,money. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： monetary 词源， monetar
• monetarist 英文词源 monetarist (adj.) 1914, from monetary + -ist . Related Monetarism (1963). 中文词源 monetarist ：货币主义者 来自拉丁语moneta,硬币，铸币，铸币处，词源同mint,money. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： monetarist 词源， monetarist 含义。
• monetarism 英文词源 monetarist (adj.) 1914, from monetary + -ist . Related Monetarism (1963). 中文词源 monetarism ：货币主义 来自拉丁语moneta,硬币，铸币，铸币处，词源同mint,money. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： monetarism 词源， monetarism 含义。
• monasticism 英文词源 monasticism (n.) 1795, from monastic + -ism . 中文词源 monasticism ：僧侣生活 来自monastic,僧侣的，-ism,主义，思想。引申词义僧侣生活。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： monasticism 词源， monasticism 含义。
• monastic 英文词源 monastic (adj.) mid-15c., from Middle French monastique "monkish, monastic," or directly from Late Latin monasticus , from Ecclesiastical Greek monastikos "solitary, pertaining to a monk," from Greek monazein "to live alone" (see monastery ). Related: Monastical (c. 1400). 中文词源 monastic ：僧侣的，清修的 来自monos,单个的，独自的，词源同monk.引申词义伴侣
• monastery 英文词源 monastery monastery: see monk monastery (n.) c. 1400, from Old French monastere "monastery" (14c.) and directly from Late Latin monasterium , from Ecclesiastical Greek monasterion "a monastery," from monazein "to live alone," from monos "alone" (see mono- ). With suffix -terion "place for (doing something)." Originally applied to houses of any religious order, male or female. 中文词源
• monarchy 英文词源 monarchy (n.) "state ruled by monarchical government," mid-14c.; "rule by one person," late 14c.; from Old French monarchie "sovereignty, absolute power" (13c.), from Late Latin monarchia , from Greek monarkhia "absolute rule," literally "ruling of one," from monos "alone" (see mono- ) + arkhein "to rule" (see archon ). 中文词源 monarchy ：君主制，君主国 来自monarch,君主
• monarchist 英文词源 monarchist (n.) 1640s, from monarchy + -ist . Related: Monarchistic . 中文词源 monarchist ：拥护君主主义者 来自monarchism,君主主义，-ist,人。即拥护君主主义的人。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： monarchist 词源， monarchist 含义。
• monarchism 英文词源 monarchism (n.) from French monarchisme , from monarchie (see monarchy ). 中文词源 monarchism ：君主主义，君主制度 来自monarch,君主，帝王，-ism,主义，制度。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： monarchism 词源， monarchism 含义。
• monarchical 英文词源 monarchic (adj.) from Middle French monarchique , from Greek monarkhikos , from monarkhes (see monarch ). Related: Monarchical (1570s). monarchy (n.) "state ruled by monarchical government," mid-14c.; "rule by one person," late 14c.; from Old French monarchie "sovereignty, absolute power" (13c.), from Late Latin monarchia , from Greek monarkhia "absolute rule," literally "ruling of on
• monarch 英文词源 monarch (n.) mid-15c., from Middle French monarque (14c.) or directly from Late Latin monarcha , from Greek monarkhes "one who rules alone" (see monarchy ). As a type of large butterfly, from 1890. 中文词源 monarch ：君主，帝王 mon-,单个的，-arch,统治，管理，词源同anarchy.即单人统治，引申词义君主，帝王。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英
• monad 英文词源 monad (n.) "unity, arithmetical unit," 1610s, from Late Latin monas (genitive monadis ), from Greek monas "unit," from monos "alone" (see mono- ). In Leibnitz's philosophy, "an ultimate unit of being" (1748). Related: Monadic . 中文词源 monad ：单子（不可分割的实体） mon-,单个的，-ad,物理名词后缀，表单个，单元。引申词义单子。 该词的英语词源
• mon- 英文词源 simon-pure (adj.) 1815, from the true Simon Pure "the genuine person or thing" (1795), from Simon Pure, name of a Quaker who is impersonated by another character (Colonel Feignwell) in part of the comedy "A Bold Stroke for a Wife" (1717) by Susannah Centlivre, English dramatist and actress. The real Simon Pure is dealt with as an imposter in the play and is believed only after he has
• mompara 英文词源 mompara "An unsophisticated country person", Fanakalo, literally 'a fool', also 'waste material'. 中文词源 mompara ：傻瓜，蠢货 来自南非语，废物，垃圾。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： mompara 词源， mompara 含义。
• Mona Lisa 英文词源 Mona Lisa by 1827 as the name of Leonardo's painting or its subject, Lisa , wife of Francesco del Giocondo (see Gioconda ). Mona is said to be a contraction of madonna as a polite form of address to a woman, so, "Madam Lisa." The name is by 1923 (D.H. Lawrence) in reference to her enigmatic smile or expression. 中文词源 Mona Lisa ：蒙娜丽莎 世界名画。Mona来自madonna的缩
• mommy 英文词源 mommy (n.) 1844, U.S. variant of mamma . Variant spelling mommie attested by 1882. Mommy track first attested 1987. Related: Mommies ; also see momma . 中文词源 mommy ：妈咪 来自mamma昵称。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： mommy 词源， mommy 含义。
• momentum 英文词源 momentum (n.) 1690s, scientific use in mechanics, "quantity of motion of a moving body," from Latin momentum "movement, moving power" (see moment ). Figurative use dates from 1782. 中文词源 momentum ：动力，势头 来自拉丁语momentum,运动，变化，冲击，词源同moment,move. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： momentum 词源， momentum 含义。
• momentous 英文词源 momentous (adj.) 1650s, from moment + -ous to carry the sense of "important" while momentary kept the meaning "of an instant of time." Related: Momentously ; momentousness . 中文词源 momentous ：关键的，重要的 来自moment,片刻，瞬间。即片刻的，引申词义转瞬即逝的，关键的，重要的。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： momentous
• momentary 英文词源 momentary (adj.) "lasting a moment," mid-15c., from Latin momentarius "of brief duration," from momentum (see moment ). 中文词源 momentary ：片刻的，短暂的 来自moment,片刻，瞬间。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： momentary 词源， momentary 含义。
• moment 英文词源 moment moment: [14] As the closely related momentum [17] suggests, ‘movement’ is the etymological notion underlying moment . It comes via Old French moment from Latin mōmentum . This was a contraction of an assumed earlier * movimentum , a derivative of movēre ‘move’ (source of English move ), and it had a wide range of meanings: from the literal ‘movement’ (preserved in
• mom-and-pop 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random pirate pirate: [15] A pirate is etymologically someone who makes an ‘attempt’ or ‘attack’ on someone. The word comes via Latin pīrāta (where the notion of a ‘sea-robber’ first emerged) from Greek peirātés ‘attacker, marauder’, a derivative of the verb peiran ‘attempt, attack’. This came from the same base
• mom 英文词源 mom (n.) 1867, American English, perhaps a shortening of mommy ; also see mamma . Adjectival phrase mom and pop dates from 1951. 中文词源 mom ：妈妈 口语。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： mom 词源， mom 含义。
• molybdenum 英文词源 molybdenum (n.) metallic element, 1816, from molybdena , used generally for lead-like minerals, from Greek molybdos "lead," also "black graphite," related to Latin plumbum "lead" (see plumb (n.)), and like it probably borrowed from a lost Mediterranean language, perhaps Iberian. The element so called because of its resemblance to lead ore. 中文词源 molybdenum ：钼 金属元素，用
• molten 英文词源 molten (adj.) late 13c., from archaic past participle of Old English meltian , a class III strong verb (see melt (v.)). 中文词源 molten ：熔化的，熔融的 来自melt,熔化，融解，-en,形容词后缀。即熔化的，熔融的。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： molten 词源， molten 含义。 molten ：熔的  来源于中古英语中melt的过去
• molt 英文词源 molt (v.) also moult , mid-14c., mouten , of feathers, "to be shed," from Old English *mutian "to change" (in bemutian "to exchange"), from Latin mutare "to change" (see mutable ). Transitive sense, of birds, "to shed feathers" is first attested 1520s. With parasitic -l- , late 16c., on model of fault , etc. Related: Molted , moulted ; molting , moulting . As a noun from 1815. 中文词
• Molotov cocktail 英文词源 Molotov cocktail (n.) 1940, a term from Russo-Finnish War (used and satirically named by the Finns), from Molotov (from Russian molot "hammer") name taken by Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Skriabin (1890-1986), Soviet minister of foreign affairs 1939-1949. 中文词源 Molotov cocktail ：莫洛托夫燃烧瓶 讽刺用法，来自俄罗斯语molot,锤子，铁锤。在上世纪40年代俄芬战
• mollycoddle 英文词源 mollycoddle (v.) also molly-coddle , 1870, from a noun (1833) meaning "one who coddles himself," from Molly (pet name formation from Mary ), which had been used contemptuously since 1754 for "a milksop, an effeminate man," + coddle (q.v.). Related: Mollycoddled ; mollycoddling . 中文词源 mollycoddle ：宠爱，溺爱 molly,来自常见女性名Mary的昵称，在俚语里用于指娘
• mollusc 英文词源 mollusc mollusc: [18] Etymologically, a mollusc is a ‘soft’ creature. The word comes ultimately from Latin molluscus ‘soft’, a derivative of mollis ‘soft’. In classical times it was used as a noun for various ‘soft’ things, such as a sort of thinshelled nut and a species of fungus that grew from maple trees, but its application to a range of invertebrate animals seems
• mollify 英文词源 mollify (v.) late 14c., "to soften (a substance)," from Old French mollifier or directly from Late Latin mollificare "make soft, mollify" from mollificus "softening," from Latin mollis "soft" (see melt (v.)) + root of facere "to make" (see factitious ). Transferred sense of "soften in temper, appease, pacify" is recorded from early 15c. Related: Mollified ; mollifying . 中文词源 m
• moll 英文词源 Moll female proper name, shortened form of Molly , itself familiar for Mary . Used from c. 1600 for "prostitute;" meaning "companion of a thief" is first recorded 1823. A general word for "woman" in old underworld slang, for instance Moll-buzzer "pickpocket who specializes in women;" Moll-tooler "female pick-pocket." U.S. sense of "a gangster's girlfriend" is from 1923. 中文词源 m