英语词源

• long johns 英文词源 long johns (n.) type of warm underwear, 1943, originally for U.S. GIs. By 1919 as a type of pastry. Long john also was used of various sorts of worm, potato, sled, etc. 中文词源 long johns ：长内裤 来自人名John，比喻用法。比较Jacket,demijohn. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： long johns 词源， long johns 含义。
• longitudinal 英文词源 longitudinal (adj.) 1706, from Latin longitudo (see longitude ) + -al (1). 中文词源 longitudinal ：经度的，纵向的 来自longitude,经度，引申词义纵向的。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： longitudinal 词源， longitudinal 含义。
• longitude 英文词源 longitude longitude: see latitude longitude (n.) late 14c., "length," from Latin longitudo "length, duration," from longus (see long (adj.)). For origins, see latitude . 中文词源 longitude ：经度 来自long,长的。即长度，用于地理经度，比较latitude. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： longitude 词源， longitude 含义。 longitude ：经度 来
• longing 英文词源 longing (n.) "yearning, desire," Old English langung "longing, weariness, sadness, dejection," from long (v.). Related: Longingly . 中文词源 longing ：渴望 来自long,渴望。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： longing 词源， longing 含义。 longing ：渴望 词根词缀： long渴望 + -ing
• longhouse 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random state state: [13] State comes, partly via Old French estat (source of English estate ), from Latin status ‘way of standing, condition, position’, which was formed from the same base as stāre ‘stand’ (a distant relative of English stand ). The word’s political sense, ‘body politic’, first recorded in the 16th centu
• longhorn 英文词源 longhorn (adj.) also long-horn , in reference to a type of cattle, 1808, from long (adj.) + horn (n.). 中文词源 longhorn ：长角牛 即长的角，用于指长角牛。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： longhorn 词源， longhorn 含义。
• long-haul 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random herd herd: [OE] Herd is part of a widespread Indo- European family of words denoting ‘group’ (others include Sanskrit çárdhas ‘troop, multitude’ and Welsh cordd ‘tribe, family’). It goes back to an Indo-European * kherdhā -, whose Germanic descendant * kherthō produced German herde , Swedish and Danish hjord , an
• longhair 英文词源 longhair (n.) also long-hair , "cat with long hair," 1893, from long (adj.) + hair . As "intellectual," especially in musical tastes, "devotee of classical music," 1920. Sense of "hippie" attested from 1969. 中文词源 longhair ：长毛猫 即长的毛发，用于指长毛猫。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： longhair 词源， longhair 含义。
• longevity 英文词源 longevity (n.) 1610s, from Late Latin longaevitatem (nominative longaevitas ) "great age, long life," from Latin longaevus "long-lived," from longus (see long (adj.)) + aevum "lifetime, age" (see eon ). 中文词源 longevity ：长寿 long,长的，-ev,时间，词源同age,medieval. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： longevity 词源， longevity 含义。
• longed-for 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random efficient efficient: see effect 中文词源 longed-for ：渴望的 来自long,渴望。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： longed-for 词源， longed-for 含义。
• long drink 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random invigorate invigorate: see vigour 中文词源 long drink ：大杯冷饮料 比喻用法。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： long drink 词源， long drink 含义。
• longbow 英文词源 longbow (n.) also long-bow , the characteristic medieval English weapon, c. 1500, from long (adj.) + bow (n.1). 中文词源 longbow ：长弓 即长的弓。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： longbow 词源， longbow 含义。
• longboat 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random course course: [13] Etymologically, course denotes ‘running’. It comes via Old French cours from Latin cursus , a derivative of the verb currere ‘run’ (from which English gets current and a wide range of other words, from courier to occur ). Its earliest meaning in English was ‘onward movement in a particular direction’
• longboard 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random impeach impeach: [14] Impeach has nothing to do with peaches. In fact it is closely related to impede , and indeed originally meant ‘impede’ in English. Both verbs comes ultimately from Latin pēs ‘foot’. Impede [17] goes back to Latin impedīre , a compound verb based on pēs which originally meant literally ‘tie the
• long 英文词源 long long: [OE] Long goes back to a prehistoric Germanic * langgaz , which also produced German, Dutch, and Danish lang and Swedish lång . It is presumably related to Latin longus ‘long’ (source of French long , Italian lungo , and Romanian lung ) but quite how has not been established. The derived verb long is of equal antiquity, and originally meant simply ‘grow long’; the
• lonesome 英文词源 lonesome (adj.) 1640s, from lone + -some (1). Related: Lonesomeness . 中文词源 lonesome ：孤独的 lone,孤独的，-some,形容词后缀。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： lonesome 词源， lonesome 含义。
• lonely hearts 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random nephew nephew: [13] Nephew goes back ultimately to Indo-European * nepōt -, which denoted a range of indirect male descendants, including ‘grandson’ and ‘nephew’. Among its offspring were Greek anepsiós ‘nephew’, Sanskrit nápāt ‘grandson’, Germanic * nebon (source of German neffe and Dutch neef ‘nephew’),
• lone 英文词源 lone (adj.) late 14c., "having no companion, solitary," shortening of alone (q.v.) by weakening of stress or else by misdivision of what is properly all one . The Lone Star in reference to "Texas" is first recorded 1843, from its flag. Lone wolf in the figurative sense is 1909, American English. 中文词源 lone ：孤独的 缩写自alone,即all one. 由单独的引申词义孤独的。
• London 英文词源 London chief city and capital of England, Latin Londinium (c.115), often explained as "place belonging to a man named Londinos," a supposed Celtic personal name meaning "the wild one," "but this etymology is rejected in an emphatic footnote in Jackson 1953 (p.308), and we have as yet nothing to put in its place" [Margaret Gelling, "Signposts to the Past: Place-Names and the History of
• lolly 英文词源 lolly (n.) 1854, short for lollipop . In 20c. British slang, also "money." 中文词源 lolly ：棒棒糖，钱 来自lollipop,棒棒糖，俚语钱。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： lolly 词源， lolly 含义。
• lollop 英文词源 lollop "Move in an ungainly way in a series of clumsy paces or bounds", Mid 18th century: probably from loll, associated with trollop. 中文词源 lollop ：跌跌撞撞的走或跑 可能来自loll和trollop的合成词，loll,耷拉，trollop,流浪人，妓女。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： lollop 词源， lollop 含义。
• lollipop man 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random apparel apparel: [13] Apparel has the same source as apparatus , and originally it had the same meaning, too: until as late as the start of the 18th century, it was used for ‘equipment needed for performing a particular function’. But the sense ‘clothing’ is of equal antiquity in English, and by the 16th century it had b
• lollipop 英文词源 lollipop (n.) 1784, lolly-pops "sweetmeats, soft candy," perhaps related to loll "to dangle" (the tongue) + pop "strike, slap." Or the first element may be northern dialectal lolly "the tongue." Meaning "hard candy on a stick" is from 1920s. 中文词源 lollipop ：棒棒糖 词源不确定，lolli可能来自方言lolly,舌头，舔的声音，pop,砰，爆裂声。后引申词义棒棒
• loll 英文词源 loll (v.) mid-14c., lollen "to lounge idly, hang loosely," perhaps related to Middle Dutch lollen "to doze, mumble," or somehow imitative of rocking or swinging. Specifically of the tongue from 1610s. Related: Lolled ; lolling . As a noun, from 1709. Grose ["Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue," 1785] has lollpoop "A lazy, idle drone." 中文词源 loll ：耷拉，下垂 词源不详，可
• Lolita 英文词源 Lolita fem. proper name, diminutive of Lola . Title and name of character in the 1958 novel by Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) about a precocious schoolgirl seduced by an older man; by 1960 the name was in widespread figurative use. 中文词源 Lolita ：萝莉，早熟性感少女 源自弗拉基米尔.纳博科夫所著小说《洛丽塔》中主人公的名字Lolita,讲的是一个中年
• loiter 英文词源 loiter (v.) early 15c., "idle one's time, dawdle over work," from Middle Dutch loteren "be loose or erratic, shake, totter" like a loose tooth or a sail in a storm; in modern Dutch, leuteren "to delay, linger, loiter over one's work." Probably cognate with Old English lutian "lurk," and related to Old English loddere "beggar;" Old High German lotar "empty, vain," luzen "lurk;" German
• loincloth 英文词源 loincloth (n.) 1859, from loin + cloth . 中文词源 loincloth ：后腰布，遮羞布 比喻用法。比较codpiece. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： loincloth 词源， loincloth 含义。
• loin 英文词源 loin loin: [14] Loin has had a circuitous history. Its distant ancestor was probably Germanic, but it was borrowed early on into Latin as lumbus ‘loin’ (source of English lumbar [17], lumbago [17], and the numbles or umbles which became the humble of humble pie ). Lumbus passed via Vulgar Latin * lumbia into Old French as longe . This had an eastern dialectal form loigne , which E
• logrolling 英文词源 logrolling (n.) also log-rolling , in the legislative vote-trading sense, 1823, American English, from the notion of neighbors on the frontier helping one another with the heavy work of clearing land and building cabins (as in phrase you roll my log and I'll roll yours ); see log (n.1) + rolling . LOG-ROLLING. 1. In the lumber regions of Maine it is customary for men of different logg
• logos 英文词源 logos (n.) 1580s, Logos , "the divine Word, second person of the Christian Trinity," from Greek logos "word, speech, discourse," also "reason," from PIE root *leg- "to collect" (with derivatives meaning "to speak," on notion of "to pick out words;" see lecture (n.)); used by Neo-Platonists in various metaphysical and theological senses and picked up by New Testament writers. Other Eng
• logogram 英文词源 logogram (n.) "sign or character representing a word," 1840, from Greek logos (see logos ) + -gram . Generically, "any symbol representing graphically a product, idea, etc." is from 1966. The earliest use of the word (1820) is in the sense "logograph," but OED explains this as a substitute "for logograph , which in this sense is itself a mistake for logogriph ." 中文词源 logogram ：
• logoff 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random statute statute: see statue 中文词源 logoff ：注销 来自log,记录，-off,离开。引申词义注销。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： logoff 词源， logoff 含义。
• logo 英文词源 logo (n.) 1937, probably a shortening of logogram "sign or character representing a word." 中文词源 logo ：标识，徽标 可能缩写自logogram,代表字词的标记，图标，logo-,字，词，词源同logos,-gram,写。后用于代表公司或组织的标识或徽标。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： logo 词源， logo 含义。
• logjam 英文词源 logjam (n.) also log-jam , "congestion of logs on a river," by 1851, American English; see log (n.1) + jam (v.). The figurative sense is by 1890. 中文词源 logjam ：僵局 log,原木，jam,堵塞。原指河道木头塞积，引申词义僵局。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： logjam 词源， logjam 含义。
• logistics 英文词源 logistics (n.) "art of moving, quartering, and supplying troops," 1879, from French (l'art) logistique "(art) of quartering troops," from Middle French logis "lodging," from Old French logeiz "shelter for an army, encampment," from loge (see lodge (n.)) + Greek-derived suffix -istique (see -istic ). The form in French was influenced by logistique . Related: Logistical . 中文词源 l
• login 英文词源 login in the computer sense, as one word, by 1983, from log in . 中文词源 login ：注册，登录 来自log,记录，-in,进。引申词义登录。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： login 词源， login 含义。
• logician 英文词源 logician (n.) "person skilled in logic," late 14c., from Old French logicien (13c.), from logique (see logic ). 中文词源 logician ：逻辑学家 来自logic,逻辑。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： logician 词源， logician 含义。
• logging 英文词源 logging (n.1) "act of felling timber," 1706, verbal noun from log (v.1). logging (n.2) "act of recording in a log," 1941, verbal noun from log (v.2). 中文词源 logging ：伐木作业 来自log,原木，伐木。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： logging 词源， logging 含义。
• loggia 英文词源 loggia (n.) "roofed galley used as an open-air room," 1742, from Italian loggia , from French loge (see lodge (n.)). 中文词源 loggia ：凉廊 来自法语loge,小屋，凉亭，词源同lodge.引申词义凉廊。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： loggia 词源， loggia 含义。
• loggerheads 英文词源 loggerhead loggerhead: [16] Loggerhead originally meant much the same as blockhead – a stupid person with a block of wood for a head (in Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost (1588), Berowne calls Costard a ‘whoreson loggerhead’). The first part of it probably represents logger ‘block for hobbling a horse’, which in turn was based on log , but how it came to be used in th
• logger 英文词源 logger (n.1) "one who fells or cuts trees," by 1708, agent noun from log (v.1). logger (n.2) "one who enters data in a log," 1958, agent noun from log (v.2). 中文词源 logger ：伐木工人 来自log,原木，伐木。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： logger 词源， logger 含义。
• logbook 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random dirham dirham: see dram 中文词源 logbook ：日志 log,原木，记录，book,册子。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： logbook 词源， logbook 含义。
• logarithm 英文词源 logarithm logarithm: [17] Greek lógos had a remarkably wide spread of meanings, ranging from ‘speech, saying’ to ‘reason, reckoning, calculation’, and ‘ratio’. The more ‘verbal’ end of its spectrum has given English the suffixes - logue and - logy (as in dialogue , tautology , etc), while the ‘reasoning’ component has contributed logic [14] (from the Greek derivat
• loganberry 英文词源 loganberry (n.) 1893, American English, named for U.S. horticulturalist James H. Logan (1841-1928), who developed it by crossing a blackberry and a raspberry. 中文词源 loganberry ：罗甘莓 一种杂交莓子，来自其种植者19世纪美国园艺学家James Logan. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： loganberry 词源， loganberry 含义。
• lofty 英文词源 lofty (adj.) "exalted, of high rank," early 15c.; also "with a high purpose," from loft + -y (2). From early 14c. as a surname. Literal sense of "high" is attested from 1580s. Related: Loftily ; loftiness . 中文词源 lofty ：高耸的，崇高的 来自loft,高空，阁楼，引申词义高耸的，崇高的。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： lofty 词源，
• loft 英文词源 loft loft: [OE] The notion underlying loft is of being ‘high up in the air’ – and indeed originally loft , like its close German relative luft , meant ‘air’. Not until the 13th century do we find it being used in English for ‘upper room’ (although in fact its source, Old Norse lopt , had both meanings). All these words go back to a common ancestor, prehistoric Germanic *
• lodging 英文词源 lodging (n.) early 14c., "encampment;" late 14c., "temporary accommodation; place of residence," verbal noun from lodge (v.). Related: Lodgings . 中文词源 lodging ：借宿，住宿 来自lodge,安顿，寄宿。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： lodging 词源， lodging 含义。
• lodger 英文词源 lodger (n.) early 14c., originally "tent-dweller," agent noun from lodge (v.). From c. 1200 as a surname. Meaning "one who lives in rented rooms" is from 1590s. 中文词源 lodger ：房客 来自lodge,寄宿。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： lodger 词源， lodger 含义。
• lodge 英文词源 lodge lodge: [13] The distant ancestor of lodge was Germanic * laubja ‘shelter’, which may well have been a derivative of * laubam ‘leaf’ (source of English leaf ) – the underlying idea being of a sheltered place formed by or constructed from leafy branches. German laube ‘summer-house, covered way’ comes from the same source. Medieval Latin took over the Germanic form as
• lodestone 英文词源 lodestone lodestone: see load lodestone (n.) "magnetically polarized oxide of iron," 1510s, literally "way-stone," from lode + stone (n.). So called because it was used to make compass magnets to guide mariners. Figurative use from 1570s. 中文词源 lodestone ：磁铁矿 lode,引导，stone,石头。引申词义磁铁矿，磁石。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版
• lodestar 英文词源 lodestar (n.) late 14c. (late 13c. as a surname), an old name for the pole star (compare Old Norse leiðarstjarna ) as the star that "leads the way" in navigation; from lode (n.) + star (n.). Figurative use from late 14c. 中文词源 lodestar ：北极星，指导原则 lode,引导，star,星。引申词义北极星，指导原则。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：
• lode 英文词源 lode (n.) original Middle English spelling of load (n.), and custodian of most of the original meaning of "way, course, carrying." Differentiation in sense took place 16c. Mining sense of "vein of metal ore" is from c. 1600, from notion of miners "following" it through the rock. 中文词源 lode ：矿脉 来自load的原拼写形式，保存其原义引导，道路，航向，词源同
• locution 英文词源 locution (n.) "style of speech," early 15c., from Latin locutionem (nominative locutio ) "a speaking, speech, discourse; way of speaking," noun of action from past participle stem of loqui "to speak," from PIE root *tolk(w)- (cognates: Old Irish ad-tluch- "to thank," to-tluch- "to ask;" Old Church Slavonic tloko "interpretation, explanation"). Related: Locutionary . 中文词源 locut
• locust 英文词源 locust locust: see lobster locust (n.1) "grasshopper," early 14c., borrowed earlier in Old French form languste (c. 1200), from Latin locusta "locust, lobster" (see lobster ). In the Hebrew Bible there are nine different names for the insect or for particular species or varieties; in the English Bible they are rendered sometimes 'locust,' sometimes 'beetle,' 'grasshopper,' 'caterpilla
• locus 英文词源 locus (n.) (plural loci ), 1715, "locality," from Latin locus "a place, spot, position," from Old Latin stlocus, literally "where something is placed," from PIE root *st(h)el- "to cause to stand, to place." Used by Latin writers for Greek topos . Mathematical sense by 1750. 中文词源 locus ：所在地，场所，中心 来自拉丁语locus,地方，位置，来自PIE*stel,站立，放
• locum 英文词源 locum "A person who stands in temporarily for someone else of the same profession, especially a cleric or doctor", Early 20th century: short for locum tenens. 中文词源 locum ：代班医生，代理牧师 来自拉丁短语locum tenens,代理，locum,地方，词源同locus,地方，tenens,持有，占用，词源同tenure. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： lo
• locomotive 英文词源 locomotive locomotive: [17] Locomotive denotes etymologically ‘moving by change of place’. It is an anglicization of modern Latin locōmōtīvus , a compound formed from locus ‘place’ and mōtīvus ‘causing to move’ (source of English motive ). Originally it was used strictly as an adjective, and it was not until the early 19th century that the present-day noun use (which
• locomotion 英文词源 locomotion (n.) 1640s, formed in English from Latin loco "from a place" (ablative of locus "place") + motionem (nominative motio ) "motion, a moving." 中文词源 locomotion ：移动，运动 loco-,地方，motion,移动。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： locomotion 词源， locomotion 含义。 locomotion ：运动，移动；运动力，移动力 词根词缀
• loco 英文词源 loco (adj.) 1844, American English, from Spanish loco (adj.) "insane," of uncertain origin, perhaps from Arabic lauqa , fem. of 'alwaq "fool, crazy person." Loco-weed (1877) was name given to species of western U.S. plants that cause cattle and horse diseases that make them stagger and act strangely. 中文词源 loco ：发疯，发狂 来自西班牙语loco,发疯的，最终来自阿
• lock-up 英文词源 lock-up (n.) "detention cell for offenders," 1838, perhaps short for earlier lock-up house ; from lock (v.) + up . Meaning "action of locking up" is from 1845. The verbal phrase lock up is recorded from early 15c. 中文词源 lock-up ：拘留所 比喻用法。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： lock-up 词源， lock-up 含义。
• lockstep 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random chamelion chamelion: [14] Etymologically, a chamelion is a ‘ground lion’. The word comes from Greek khamailéōn , a compound formed from khamaí ‘on the ground’ (English humus and humble are related to it) and léōn ‘lion’. Until the 19th century the word was usually spelled camelion , which led to popular associat
• locksmith 英文词源 locksmith (n.) early 13c., from lock (n.1) + smith . 中文词源 locksmith ：锁匠 lock,锁，smith,铁匠，匠人。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： locksmith 词源， locksmith 含义。
• locket 英文词源 locket (n.) mid-14c., "iron cross-bar of a window," from Old French loquet "door-handle, bolt, latch," diminutive of loc "lock, latch," from Frankish or some other Germanic source (compare Old Norse lok "fastening, lock;" see lock (n.1)). Meaning "ornamental case with hinged cover" (containing a lock of hair, miniature portrait, etc.) first recorded 1670s. 中文词源 locket ：盒式项
• locker 英文词源 locker (n.) small chest that can be locked, late 14c., agent noun from Middle English lokken (see lock (v.)). Earlier "a mechanism for locking" (early 14c.). 中文词源 locker ：寄物柜 来自lock,锁，引申词义寄物柜。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： locker 词源， locker 含义。 locker ：(体育馆等的)有锁存物柜，寄物柜 词根词缀
• lockdown 英文词源 lockdown (n.) also lock-down , from 1940s in various mechanical senses, from lock (v.) + down (adv.). Prison sense is by 1975, American English. 中文词源 lockdown ：活动限制 比喻用法。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： lockdown 词源， lockdown 含义。
• lockable 英文词源 lockable (adj.) 1832, from lock (v.) + -able . Related: Lockability . 中文词源 lockable ：可锁住的 来自lock,锁。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： lockable 词源， lockable 含义。
• lock 英文词源 lock lock: [OE] English has two words lock . The one meaning ‘fastening mechanism’ goes back ultimately to a prehistoric Germanic * luk -or * lūk -, denoting ‘close’, which also produced German loch ‘hole’ and Swedish lock ‘lid’. Closely related are locker [15], etymologically a ‘box with a lock’, and locket [14], which was acquired from Old French locquet , a dim
• loch 英文词源 loch (n.) late 14c., from Gaelic loch "lake, narrow arm of the sea," cognate with Old Irish loch "body of water, lake," Breton lagen , Anglo-Irish lough , Latin lacus (see lake (n.1)). The Loch Ness monster is first attested 1933. 中文词源 loch ：湖，狭长的海湾 来自盖尔语loch,湖，狭长的海湾，词源同lake,lough. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版
• loc.cit. 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random teem teem: see team 中文词源 loc.cit. ：在上述引文中 来自拉丁短语，loc.地点，即locus，cit.引用，即cite. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： loc.cit. 词源， loc.cit. 含义。
• locator 英文词源 locator (n.) c. 1600, of persons, from Latin locator , agent noun from locare (see locate ). Of things which locate, from 1902. 中文词源 locator ：定位器 来自locate,定位。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： locator 词源， locator 含义。 locator ：定位器，探测器；确定某物位置的人；定格子，雷达；听音机；勘定器  词根
• locative 英文词源 locative (n.) "grammatical case indicating place," 1804, from Latin locus "place" (see locus ) on model of Latin vocativus "vocative," from vocatus , past participle of vocare "to call, summon." As an adjective by 1816. 中文词源 locative ：方位格 来自locate,定位，用于语法方位格。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： locative 词源， locative 含义
• location 英文词源 location (n.) "position, place," 1590s, from Latin locationem (nominative locatio ), noun of action from past participle stem of locare (see locate ); Hollywood sense of "place outside a film studio where a scene is filmed" is from 1914. 中文词源 location ：地点 来自locate,定位，定位的地点。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： location 词源， lo
• locate 英文词源 locate (v.) 1650s, "to establish oneself in a place, settle," from Latin locatus , past participle of locare "to place, put, set, dispose, arrange," from locus "a place" (see locus ). Sense of "mark the limits of a place" (especially a land grant) is attested from 1739 in American English; this developed to "establish (something) in a place" (1807) and "to find out the place of" (1882
• localized 英文词源 buddy (n.) 1850, American English, possibly an alteration of brother , or from British colloquial butty "companion" (1802), itself perhaps a variant of booty in booty fellow "confederate who shares plunder" (1520s). But butty , meaning "work-mate," also was a localized dialect word in England and Wales, attested since 18c., and long associated with coal miners. Short form bud is attes
• localize 英文词源 localize (v.) 1792, from local + -ize . Related: Localized ; localizing . 中文词源 localize ：使局限于某地区 来自local,当地的，-ize,使。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： localize 词源， localize 含义。
• locality 英文词源 locality (n.) 1620s, "fact of having a place," from French localité , from Late Latin localitatem (nominative localitas ) "locality," from localis "belonging to a place" (see local ). Meaning "a place or district" is from 1830. 中文词源 locality ：地方，地点 来自local,当地的，引申词义地方，地点。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： localit
• locale 英文词源 locale (n.) 1772, local , from French local , noun use of local (adj.), from Latin locus "place" (see locus ). English spelling with -e (1816) probably is based on morale or else to indicate stress. The word's right to exist depends upon the question whether the two indispensable words locality scene give all the shades of meaning required, or whether something intermediate is useful.
• local color 英文词源 local (adj.) "pertaining to position," late 14c. (originally medical, "confined to a particular part of the body"), from Old French local (13c.) and directly from Late Latin localis "pertaining to a place," from Latin locus "place" (see locus ). The meaning "limited to a particular place" is from c. 1500. Local color is from 1721, originally a term in painting; meaning "anything pictu
• local 英文词源 local local: [15] Latin locus meant ‘place’ (it became in due course French lieu , acquired by English in the 13th century, and was itself adopted into English as a mathematical term in the 18th century). From it was derived the verb locāre ‘place’, source of English locate [18] and location [16], and the post-classical adjective locālis , from which English gets local . The
• lobotomy 英文词源 lobotomy (n.) 1936, coined from lobe (in the brain sense) + medical suffix -tomy . Figurative use is attested from 1953. Now I guess I'll have to tell 'em That I got no cerebellum [Ramones, "Teenage Lobotomy," 1977] 中文词源 lobotomy ：脑叶切除术 lobo-,脑叶，-tomy,切除，词源同anatomy. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： lobotomy 词源， lobotomy
• lobotomize 英文词源 lobotomize (v.) 1943; see lobotomy + -ize . Related: Lobotomized . 中文词源 lobotomize ：脑叶切除 来自lobotomy,脑叶切除术。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： lobotomize 词源， lobotomize 含义。
• lobola 英文词源 lobola "(Among southern African peoples) a bride price, traditionally one paid with cattle", Zulu and Xhosa. 中文词源 lobola ：彩牛礼 来自南非祖鲁语，非洲男方为娶亲送给女方的彩牛礼。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： lobola 词源， lobola 含义。
• lobelia 英文词源 lobelia "A chiefly tropical or subtropical plant of the bellflower family, in particular an annual widely grown as a bedding plant. Some kinds are aquatic, and some grow as thick-trunked shrubs or trees on African mountains", Modern Latin, named after Matthias de Lobel (1538–1616), Flemish botanist to James I. 中文词源 lobelia ：半边莲 来自16世纪法国植物学家Matthia
• lobe 英文词源 lobe lobe: [16] Greek lobós denoted ‘something round’, such as the circular part of the ear or the liver, or a round seed pod. It came from a prehistoric * logwós , a close relative of which produced Latin legūmen ‘seed pod’ (source of English legume [17]). Lobós was borrowed into late Latin as lobus , and from there made its way into English. = legume lobe (n.) early 15c.
• lobbyist 英文词源 lobbyist (n.) 1863, American English, from lobby (n.) in the political sense + -ist . [A] strong lobbyist will permit himself to lose heavily at the poker-table, under the assumption that the great Congressman who wins the stake will look leniently upon the little appropriation he means to ask for. [George A. Townsend, "Events at the National Capital and the Campaign of 1876," Hartfor
• lob 英文词源 lob (v.) "send up in a slow, high arc," 1824 (implied in lobbing ), but the word existed 16c. in various senses suggesting heavy, pendant, or floppy things, and probably is ultimately from an unrecorded Old English word; compare East Frisian lobbe "hanging lump of flesh," Dutch lob "hanging lip, ruffle, hanging sleeve," Danish lobbes "clown, bumpkin." Related: Lobbed ; lobbing . The n
• loathsome 英文词源 loathsome (adj.) c. 1300, "foul, detestable," from loath in its older, stronger sense + -some (1). Related: Loathsomely ; loathsomeness . 中文词源 loathsome ：令人厌恶的，生厌的 来自loath,厌恶的，-some,形容词后缀。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： loathsome 词源， loathsome 含义。
• loathe 英文词源 loathe loathe: [OE] Loathe originated as a derivative of the adjective loath or loth [OE]. This originally meant ‘hostile’ or ‘loathsome’, and goes back to a prehistoric Germanic * laithaz , which also produced Swedish led ‘fed up’ and German leid ‘sorrow’, and was borrowed into the Romance languages, giving French laid and Italian laido ‘ugly’. loathe (v.) Old Eng
• loath 英文词源 loath (adj.) Old English lað "hated; hateful; hostile; repulsive," from Proto-Germanic *laithaz (cognates: Old Saxon, Old Frisian leth "loathsome," Old Norse leiðr "hateful, hostile, loathed;" Middle Dutch lelijc , Dutch leelijk "ugly;" Old High German leid "sorrowful, hateful, offensive, grievous," German Leid "sorrow;" French laid "ugly," from Frankish (Germanic) *laid ), from PIE
• loanword 英文词源 acacia acacia: [16] Acacia comes via Latin from Greek akakía , a word for the shittah. This is a tree mentioned several times in the Bible (the Ark of the Covenant was made from its wood). It is not clear precisely what it was, but it was probably a species of what we now know as the acacia. The ultimate derivation of Greek akakía is obscure too; some hold that it is based on Greek