英语词源

• glans 英文词源 glans (n.) head of the penis or clitoris, 1640s, from Latin glans "acorn," also used of acorn-shaped things (see gland ). 中文词源 glans ：龟头，阴蒂头 来自PIE*gwele, 橡实，球体，词源同globe. 因呈球体而得名。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： glans 词源， glans 含义。
• glandular 英文词源 glandular (adj.) 1740, from French glandulaire , from glandule "small gland" (16c.), from Latin glandula (see gland ). Earlier was glandelous (late 14c.), from Latin glandulosus . 中文词源 glandular ：腺状的，腺体的 来自gland, 腺。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： glandular 词源， glandular 含义。
• gland 英文词源 gland (n.) 1690s, from French glande (Old French glandre "a gland," 13c.), from Latin glandula "gland of the throat, tonsil," diminutive of glans (genitive glandis ) "acorn, nut; acorn-shaped ball," from PIE root *gwele- (2) "acorn" (cognates: Greek balanos , Armenian kalin , Old Church Slavonic zelodi "acorn;" Lithuanian gile "oak"). Earlier English form was glandula (c. 1400); Middl
• glance 英文词源 glance glance: [15] ‘Touch or deflect lightly’, as in ‘glance off something’ and a ‘glancing blow’, is the primary meaning of glance ; ‘look briefly’ did not develop until the 16th century. The word may have originated as an alteration of the Middle English verb glacen ‘glide, slide’ (probably under the influence of Middle English glenten , the ancestor of modern E
• glam rock 英文词源 glam (adj.) slang shortening of glamorous , first attested 1936. Glam rock ("characterized by male performers dressed in glamorous clothes, with the suggestion of androgyny or sexual ambiguity" - OED), attested by 1974. Glamazon "glamourous, dominant woman" attested by 1985 (based on amazon ). 中文词源 glam rock ：魅惑摇滚 glam, 魅惑。rock, 摇滚。 该词的英语词源请
• glade 英文词源 glade (n.) "clear, open space in a woods," late 14c., of uncertain origin, perhaps from Middle English glode (c. 1300), from Old Norse glaðr "bright" (see glad ). If so, the original meaning could be "bright (because open) space in a wood" (compare French clairière "glade," from clair "clear, bright;" German Lichtung "clearing, glade," from Licht "light"). American English sense of
• glad 英文词源 glad glad: [OE] The original meaning of Old English glæd was ‘bright, shining’. It went back to a prehistoric Germanic * glathaz , which was related to Latin glaber ‘smooth, bald’ (source of English glabrous [17] and Old Slavic gladuku ‘smooth’). ‘Happy’ is a secondary semantic development, which evidently took place before the various Germanic dialects went their own
• glaciation 英文词源 glaciation (n.) 1640s, "act of freezing," noun of action from past participle stem of Latin glaciare "to freeze," deom glacies "ice" (see glacial ). Geological sense of "presence of a mass of ice covering a region" is from 1863. 中文词源 glaciation ：冰川作用 来自拉丁文glacies, 冰，词源同cold. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： glaciation 词源，
• glacial 英文词源 glacial (adj.) 1650s, "cold, icy," from French glacial or directly from Latin glacialis "icy, frozen, full of ice," from glacies "ice," probably from a suffixed form of PIE root *gel- (2) "cold, to freeze" (cognates: Latin gelu "frost;" see cold (adj.)). Geological sense "pertaining to glaciers" apparently was coined in 1846 by British naturalist Edward Forbes (1815-1854). Hence figur
• glace 英文词源 glace (adj.) "having a smooth, polished surface," as ice does, 1847, from French glacé "iced, glazed," past participle of glacer "to ice, give a gloss to," from glace "ice," from Latin glacies "ice" (see glacial ). 中文词源 glace ：蜜饯的 来自拉丁文glacies, 冰，词源同cold. 用于蜜饯过的食品，带冰晶的。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：
• gizzard 英文词源 gizzard gizzard: [14] Latin gigeria denoted the ‘cooked entrails of poultry’, something of a delicacy in ancient Rome (the word may have been borrowed from Persian jigar ). This produced a Vulgar Latin * gicerium , which passed into Old French as giser . English acquired it, but did not change it from giser to gizzard until the 16th century (the addition of a so-called ‘parasiti
• gizmo 英文词源 gizmo (n.) 1942, "Marine and Navy usage for any old thing you can't put a name to" ["Life" magazine, July 30, 1945], of unknown origin, perhaps a made-up word. Compare gadget , thingamajig . 中文词源 gizmo ：小玩意儿 词源不详，用来指各种叫不出名字的物体。比较gadget. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： gizmo 词源， gizmo 含义。
• give 英文词源 give give: [OE] Give is part of a widespread Germanic family of verbs, including also German geben , Dutch geven , Swedish giva , and Danish give , not to mention Gothic giban . They all come from a prehistoric Germanic * geban , a verb of uncertain ancestry (it has been suggested that it was related to Latin habēre ‘have’, their opposite meaning being accounted for by a shared n
• git 英文词源 git (n.) "worthless person," 1946, British slang, a southern variant of Scottish get "illegitimate child, brat," which is related to beget . 中文词源 git ：笨蛋，饭桶 来自beget的缩写，俚语义私生子，笨蛋。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： git 词源， git 含义。
• gist 英文词源 gist gist: [18] Cest action gist , literally ‘this action lies’, was an Old French expression denoting that a case was sustainable in law and could be proceeded with. English took over gist , which was the third person singular of the verb gésir ‘lie’, as a legal term meaning ‘grounds for action in a suit’. The more general modern meaning, ‘central point’, developed i
• girth 英文词源 girth (n.) c. 1300, "belt around a horse's body," from Old Norse gjorð "girdle, belt, hoop," from Proto-Germanic *gertu- (cf Gothic gairda "girdle"), from the same source as girdle and gird . Sense of "measurement around an object" first recorded 1640s. 中文词源 girth ：腰围 来自gird, 围， 绕。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： girth 词源， girth 含
• giro 英文词源 Girondist (n.) 1795, member of the moderate republican party of France, 1791-93, from Gironde , name of a department in southwestern France; the faction so called because its leaders were deputies elected from there. autogiro "A form of aircraft with freely rotating horizontal blades and a propeller. It differs from a helicopter in that the blades are not powered but rotate in the sli
• girl Friday 英文词源 girl Friday "A female assistant, especially a junior office worker", 1940s: on the pattern of man Friday . 中文词源 girl Friday ：女助手 来自小说《鲁滨逊漂流记》，鲁滨逊漂流荒岛的时候从野人堆里救起一个即将被烧死的黑人，因为当天是星期五，因此鲁滨逊给他取名Man Friday. 据此创造出新词girl Friday. 该词的英语词源
• girl 英文词源 girl girl: [13] Where girl comes from is one of the unsolved puzzles of English etymology. What is at least clear is that originally it meant ‘child’ in general rather than specifically ‘female child’ (a mid 15th-century text refers to knave-gerlys ‘male children’), but where it came from is not known. Among suggestions for words that may be connected are Low German göre ‘
• girdle 英文词源 girdle girdle: English has two words girdle . The more familiar, ‘belt’ [OE], goes back, together with its relatives garth , gird [OE], and girth [14], to a prehistoric Germanic * gurd -, * gard -, * gerd which denoted ‘surrounding’. From * gurd came the verb * gurthjan , which produced both gird and girdle (as well as relatives in other Germanic languages, such as German gür
• girder 英文词源 girder (n.) "main supporting wooden beam that carries flooring," 1610s, agent noun from gird , on notion of something that "holds up" something else. Used of iron bridge supports from 1853. 中文词源 girder ：大梁 来自gird, 围，绕，引申义支撑。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： girder 词源， girder 含义。
• gird 英文词源 gird (v.) Old English gyrdan "put a belt or girdle around; encircle; bind with flexible material; invest with attributes," from Proto-Germanic *gurdjan (cognates: Old Norse gyrða , Old Saxon gurdian , Old Frisian gerda , Dutch gorden , Old High German gurtan , German gürten ), from PIE *ghr-dh- , suffixed form of root *gher- (1) "to grasp" (see yard (n.1)). Related: Girded ; girding
• giraffe 英文词源 giraffe giraffe: [17] The 16th-century name for the ‘giraffe’ was camelopard , a compound of camel and leopard appropriate enough in view of the animal’s long neck and leopard-like spots, but in the 17th century a rival term came on the scene – giraffe . This was borrowed from either French girafe or Italian giraffa , both of which go back to Arabic zirāfah , a word probably
• gippy tummy 英文词源 gippy tummy "Diarrhoea affecting visitors to hot countries", 1940s: gippy , abbreviation of Egyptian. 中文词源 gippy tummy ：腹泻 gippy, 来自Egypt的口语。tummy, 肚子。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： gippy tummy 词源， gippy tummy 含义。
• gin trap 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random pearl pearl: [14] Latin perna originally signified ‘leg’, and hence ‘ham’. It came to be applied metaphorically to a variety of sea-mussel whose stalk-like foot resembled a ham in shape. Such mussels could contain pearls, and so a diminutive form * pernula seems to have been coined in Vulgar Latin to designate ‘pearl’
• ginseng 英文词源 ginseng (n.) type of plant whose root is highly valued as a tonic and stimulant in Chinese herbology, 1650s, from Chinese jen-shen . First element means "man," but the meaning of the second is obscure. 中文词源 ginseng ：人参 来自汉语。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： ginseng 词源， ginseng 含义。
• ginormous 英文词源 ginormous (adj.) by 1948, perhaps 1942, apparently originally a World War II military colloquialism, from a merger of gigantic + enormous . 中文词源 ginormous ：极大地 来自gigantic和enormous的合成词。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： ginormous 词源， ginormous 含义。
• ginkgo 英文词源 ginkgo (n.) 1773, from Japanese ginkyo , from Chinese yin-hing , from yin "silver" + hing "apricot" (Sino-Japanese kyo ). Introduced to New World 1784 by William Hamilton in his garden near Philadelphia; also formerly known as the maidenhair-tree , from resemblance of the tree's leaves to those of the fern. 中文词源 ginkgo ：银杏 来自汉语。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词
• gingivitis 英文词源 gingivitis (n.) 1874, from Latin gingivae "the gums" (of unknown origin) + -itis "inflammation." 中文词源 gingivitis ：牙龈炎 来自拉丁语gingivae，牙龈。-itis, 炎症。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： gingivitis 词源， gingivitis 含义。
• gingham 英文词源 gingham (n.) cotton fabric woven of plain dyed yarns, 1610s, from Dutch gingang , a traders' rendering of a Malay word said to be ginggang , meaning "striped" [OED], or else "perishable, fading" [Century Dictionary], used as a noun with the sense of "striped cotton." Also from the same source are French guingan (18c.), Spanish guinga , Italian gingano , German gingang . 中文词源 g
• gingerly 英文词源 gingerly gingerly: see general gingerly (adv.) "extremely cautiously" (of movements, etc.), c. 1600, earlier "elegantly, daintily" (1510s), of unknown origin. Perhaps [OED] from Old French gensor , comparative of gent "dainty, delicate," from Latin gentius "(well)-born" (see gentle ). Meaning "extremely cautiously" is from c. 1600. 中文词源 gingerly ：谨慎地 词源不详，通常
• ginger 英文词源 ginger ginger: [OE] Few foodstuffs can have been as exhaustively etymologized as ginger – Professor Alan Ross, for instance, begetter of the U/non-U distinction, wrote an entire 74-page monograph on the history of the word in 1952. And deservedly so, for its ancestry is extraordinarily complex. Its ultimate source was Sanskrit śrngavēram , a compound formed from śrngam ‘horn’
• gin 英文词源 gin gin: Gin ‘alcoholic drink’ [18] and gin ‘trap’ [13] are different words, but both originated as abbreviations. The latter comes from Old French engin (source of English engine ), while the former is short for geneva . This now obsolete term for the spirit was borrowed via Dutch genever from Old French genevre , a derivative of Latin jūniperus ‘juniper’ (juniper being
• gimmick 英文词源 gimmick gimmick: [20] Gimmick originally meant ‘dishonest contrivance’ – indeed, in the first known printed reference to it, in George Maine’s and Bruce Grant’s Wise-crack dictionary 1926 (an American publication), it is defined specifically as a ‘device for making a fair game crooked’. The modern sense ‘stratagem for gaining attention’ seems to have come to the fore
• gimlet 英文词源 gimlet (n.) type of boring tool, mid-14c., gymbelette , from Anglo-French and Old French guimbelet , guibelet (12c., Modern French gibelet ), which is probably of Germanic origin, perhaps from Middle Dutch wimmelkijn (with substitute of French diminutive suffix), diminutive of wimmel "auger, drill." Middle English also had wimble in the same sense (mid-13c.), probably from an Old Nort
• gimcrack 英文词源 gimcrack (n.) "trifle, knick-knack," by c. 1820, earlier "mechanical contrivance" (1630s), originally "showy person" (1610s), of uncertain origin. Perhaps an alteration of Middle English gibecrake , the name of some kind of ornament on wooden furniture (mid-14c.), which is perhaps from Old French giber "to rattle, shake" + some special sense of Middle English crak "sharp noise, crack.
• gilt 英文词源 gilt gilt: see gold gilt (adj.) "gilded," c. 1400, past participle of Middle English gilden "to gild," from Old English gyldan (see gild (v.)). Also used as a noun with a sense of "gilding" (early 15c.). 中文词源 gilt ：镀金 来自gild的过去分词，词源同gold. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： gilt 词源， gilt 含义。
• gillie 英文词源 gillie "(In Scotland) a man or boy who attends someone on a hunting or fishing expedition", Late 16th century: from Scottish Gaelic gille 'lad, servant'. The word was also found in the term gilliewetfoot , denoting a servant who carried the chief over a stream, used as a contemptuous name by Lowlanders for the follower of a Highland chief. sense 2 dates from the 1930s. 中文词源 gi
• gill 英文词源 gill gill: English has three separate words gill . The oldest, gill ‘ravine’ [11], was borrowed from Old Norse gil , a word of unknown ancestry. Gill ‘fishes’ breathing organ’ [14] probably also comes from an Old Norse * gil , never actually recorded, but deduced from modern Swedish gäl and Danish gjælle ‘gill’. It may well go back to a prehistoric Indo-European source
• gilet 英文词源 gilet "A light sleeveless padded jacket", Late 19th century: French, 'waistcoat', from Spanish jileco , from Turkish yelek . 中文词源 gilet ：厚夹克背心 来自土耳其语。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： gilet 词源， gilet 含义。
• gild 英文词源 gild gild: see gold gild (v.) Old English gyldan "to gild, to cover with a thin layer of gold," from Proto-Germanic *gulthjan (cognates: Old Norse gylla "to gild," Old High German ubergulden "to cover with gold"), from *gulthan "gold" (see gold ). Related: Gilded ; gilding . Figuratively from 1590s. 中文词源 gild ：镀金 来自gold的动词形式。 该词的英语词源请访问趣
• gigolo 英文词源 gigolo (n.) "professional male escort or dancing partner, young man supported financially by an older woman in exchange for his attentions," 1922, from French gigolo , formed as a masc. of gigole "tall, thin woman; dancing girl; prostitute," perhaps from verb gigoter "to move the shanks, hop," from gigue "shank" (12c.), also "fiddle," Old French giga from Frankish *giga- or some other
• giggle 英文词源 giggle (v.) c. 1500, probably imitative. Related: Giggled ; giggling ; giggly . As a noun from 1570s. 中文词源 giggle ：咯咯笑 拟声词。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： giggle 词源， giggle 含义。
• gigantism 英文词源 gigantism (n.) medical condition causing abnormal increased size, 1854, from Latin gigant- "giant" (see gigantic ) + -ism . 中文词源 gigantism ：巨人症 gigant,同giant, 巨人。-ism, 症状。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： gigantism 词源， gigantism 含义。
• gigabyte 英文词源 gigabyte (n.) 1982, from giga- "billion" + byte . 中文词源 gigabyte ：千兆字节 giga, 巨大，词源同giant, 用于术语千兆。byte, 字节，词源同bite. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： gigabyte 词源， gigabyte 含义。
• gigabit 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random pitchfork pitchfork: see pike 中文词源 gigabit ：千兆比特 giga, 巨大，词源同giant, 用于术语千兆。bit, 比特，词源同bite. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： gigabit 词源， gigabit 含义。
• gig 英文词源 gig (n.1) "light, two-wheeled carriage, usually drawn by one horse" (1791), also "small boat," 1790, perhaps, on notion of bouncing, from Middle English ghyg "spinning top" (in whyrlegyg , mid-15c.), also "giddy girl" (early 13c., also giglet ), from Old Norse geiga "turn sideways," or Danish gig "spinning top." Similar to words in continental Germanic for "fiddle" (such as German Gei
• gift 英文词源 gift gift: [13] Prehistoric Germanic * geb -, the source from which English gets the verb give , produced the derivative * geftiz . This passed into Old English as gift , which, as far as is known, meant only ‘bride price’, and seems to have died out by the Middle English period. Modern English gift represents a borrowing of the related Old Norse gipt or gift . (Modern German, Swe
• giddy up 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random delta delta: [16] Delta was the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet, corresponding to English d . Its capital form was written in the shape of a tall triangle, and already in the ancient world the word was being applied metaphorically to the triangular deposit of sand, mud, etc which forms at the mouth of rivers (the Greek histo
• giddy 英文词源 giddy giddy: [OE] Like enthusiastic , the etymological meaning of giddy is ‘possessed by a god’. Its distant ancestor was a prehistoric Germanic adjective * guthigaz , which was derived from * gutham ‘god’. This produced Old English gidig , which meant ‘insane’ or ‘stupid’. It was not until the 16th century that it acquired its main present-day meaning, ‘dizzy’. =
• giblets 英文词源 giblets giblets: [14] French gibier means ‘game’ – in the sense ‘hunted animals’ (it comes from Frankish * gabaiti ‘hunting with falcons’). In the Old French period this seems to have produced a diminutive form * giberet , literally ‘small game’, which, though never recorded, is assumed to have been the basis of Old French gibelet ( l and r are very close phoneticall
• gibbon 英文词源 gibbon (n.) long-armed ape of the East Indies, 1770, from French gibbon (18c.), supposedly from a word in the French colonies of India but not found in any language there. Brought to Europe by Marquis Joseph-François Dupleix (1697-1763), French governor general in India 1742-54. The surname is Old French Giboin , from Frankish *Geba-win "gift-friend," or in some cases a diminutive of
• gibbet 英文词源 gibbet (n.) early 13c., "gallows," from Old French gibet "gallows; a bent stick, small stick with a cross" (13c.), diminutive of gibe "club; hoe," perhaps from Frankish *gibb "forked stick." "Originally synonymous with GALLOWS sb ., but in later use signifying an upright post with projecting arm from which the bodies of criminals were hung in chains or irons after execution" [OED]. gi
• gibber 英文词源 gibber (v.) "speak rapidly and inarticulately," c. 1600, probably a back-formation from gibberish . Related: Gibbered ; gibbering . 中文词源 gibber ：含混不清的说话 拟声词，含混不清的声音。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： gibber 词源， gibber 含义。
• gib 英文词源 Gib masc. proper name, a familiar abbreviation of Gilbert . As a typical name for a cat from c. 1400; hence gib-cat "a cat" (1590s), especially an old, castrated male, but also used as a term of reproach to an old woman. gib (n.) 1560s, type of iron hook, of unknown origin. As a piece of wood or metal to hold something else in place, from 1795. There are other mechanical senses, but i
• GI 英文词源 GI GI: [20] GI originated, around the beginning of the 20th century, as a US abbreviation of galvanized iron . It was soon in common use in the military, in contexts such as GI can , and the idea seems to have got about that it stood for not galvanized iron but government issue . This misconception propelled it into such combinations as GI shoe , GI soap and (facetiously) GI soldier .
• ghoul 英文词源 ghoul (n.) 1786, goul , in the English translation of William Beckford's Orientalist novel "Vathek" (which was written in French), from Arabic ghul , an evil spirit that robs graves and feeds on corpses, from ghala "he seized." 中文词源 ghoul ：食尸鬼 来自阿拉伯语。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： ghoul 词源， ghoul 含义。
• ghostwrite 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random valiant valiant: see value 中文词源 ghostwrite ：捉刀，代写 来自ghost, 鬼，引申义偷偷摸摸的，黑暗中的。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： ghostwrite 词源， ghostwrite 含义。
• ghetto 英文词源 ghetto ghetto: [17] English acquired ghetto from Italian, but its precise history is uncertain. Among the suggestions are that it represents Italian getto ‘foundry’, from a Jewish enclave in Venice established on the site of a medieval foundry in 1516; that it is short for Italian borghetto , a diminutive form of borgo ‘settlement outside city walls’ (to which English borough
• gherkin 英文词源 gherkin gherkin: [17] Etymologically, a gherkin may be a ‘little unripe one’. The word was borrowed from an assumed early Dutch * gurkkijn , a diminutive form of gurk , which probably came from Lithuanian agurkas . This in turn goes back via Polish ogurek to medieval Greek angoúrion , which has been linked with classical Greek ágouros ‘youth’. gherkin (n.) small cucumber use
• ghee 英文词源 ghee "Clarified butter made from the milk of a buffalo or cow, used in South Asian cooking", From Hindi ghī , from Sanskrit ghṛtá 'sprinkled'. 中文词源 ghee ：印度酥油 来自印度语。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： ghee 词源， ghee 含义。
• ghat 英文词源 ghat (n.) also ghaut , from Hindi, "a pass of descent from a mountain," hence also "mountain range, chain of hills," also "stairway leading up from a river" (to a shrine, temple, etc.), from Sanskrit ghattah "landing place," of unknown origin. 中文词源 ghat ：河堤台阶 来自印度语。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： ghat 词源， ghat 含义。
• ghastly 英文词源 ghastly ghastly: [14] Despite its similarity in form and sense, ghastly is not related to ghost . It was formed from the Middle English verb gasten ‘terrify’, which may have been a descendant of the Old English verb gǣstan ‘torment’ (source of aghast ). The spelling with gh -, based on ghost , was first used by the 16th-century poet Edmund Spenser, and in due course caught on
• gharial 英文词源 gharial "A large fish-eating crocodile with a long, narrow snout that widens at the nostrils, native to the Indian subcontinent", Early 19th century: from Hindi ghaṛiyāl . The spelling gavial (from French) is an alteration probably due to scribal error. 中文词源 gharial ：食鱼鳄 来自印度语。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： gharial 词源， ghar
• gharara 英文词源 gharara "A pair of loose trousers with pleats below the knee, worn by women from South Asia, typically with a kameez", From Persian garāra 'trousers, large sack'. 中文词源 gharara ：南亚妇女穿的加格拉喇叭裤 来自印度语。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： gharara 词源， gharara 含义。
• ghagra 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random croupier croupier: see crop 中文词源 ghagra ：南亚妇女穿的筒裙 来自印度语。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： ghagra 词源， ghagra 含义。
• geyser 英文词源 geyser geyser: see gust geyser (n.) 1780, extended from Icelandic Geysir , name of a specific hot spring in the valley of Haukadal, literally "the gusher," from Old Norse geysa "to gush," from Proto-Germanic *gausjan , suffixed form of PIE *gheus- , extended form of the root *gheu- "to pour" (see found (v.2)). Taken by foreign writers as the generic name for spouting hot springs, for
• gewgaw 英文词源 gewgaw (n.) early 13c., giuegaue , contemptuous reduplication, of uncertain origin, possibly connected with Old French gogue "rejoicing, jubilation; joke, prank, mockery, game;" or jou-jou "toy," baby-talk word, from jouer "to play," from Latin jocare (see joke (n.)). 中文词源 gewgaw ：花哨无用的物品 来自古英语givegove, 来自give的同韵重复，即给来给去的小礼
• get 英文词源 get get: [13] Get , now one of the most pervasive of English words, has only been in the language for the (comparatively) short period of 800 years. It was borrowed from Old Norse geta (although a related, hundred-per-cent English - get , which occurs in beget and forget , dates back to Old English times). Both come via a prehistoric Germanic * getan from Indo-European * ghed -, which
• gesundheit 英文词源 gesundheit (interj.) 1914, from German Gesundheit , literally "health!", from Old High German gisunt , gisunti "healthy" (see sound (adj.)). Also in the German toast auf ihre Gesundheit "to your health." Lithuanian aciu , echoic of the sound of a sneeze, has come to mean "good luck, God bless you." God bless you after someone sneezes is credited to St. Gregory the Great, but the pagan
• gesture 英文词源 gesture gesture: [15] Originally, a person’s gesture was their ‘bearing’, the way they ‘carried’ themselves: ‘He was a knight of yours full true, and comely of gesture’, Sir Cleges 1410. But by the 16th century it was well on its way via ‘bodily movement’ to ‘bodily movement conveying a particular message’. The word came from medieval Latin gestūra , a derivativ
• gestate 英文词源 gestate (v.) 1847, a back-formation from gestation . Related: Gestated ; gestating . 中文词源 gestate ：孕育 来自词根ger, gest, 含有，带来，词源同exaggerate, gesture.词义引申为孕育。进一步来自PIE*ag, 做，驱动，词源同act, agent. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： gestate 词源， gestate 含义。 gestate ：孕育；酝酿 词
• gestalt 英文词源 Gestalt (n.) 1922, from German Gestaltqualität (1890, introduced by German philosopher Christian von Ehrenfels, 1859-1932), from German gestalt "shape, form, figure, configuration, appearance," abstracted from ungestalt "deformity," noun use of adj. ungestalt "misshapen," from gestalt , obsolete past participle of stellen "to set, place, arrange" (see stall (n.1)). As a school of psy
• gerund 英文词源 gerund (n.) 1510s, from Late Latin gerundium (also gerundivus modus ), from Latin gerundum "to be carried out," gerundive of gerere "to bear, carry" (see gest ). In Latin, a verbal noun used for all cases of the infinitive but the nominative; applied in English to verbal nouns in -ing . "So called because according to the old grammarians, the gerund prop[erly] expressed the doing or t
• gerontology 英文词源 gerontology (n.) 1903, coined in English from geronto- , used as comb. form of Greek geron (genitive gerontos ) "old man," from PIE root *gere- "to become ripe, grow old" (cognates: Sanskrit jara "old age," jarati "makes frail, causes to age;" Avestan zaurvan "old age;" Ossetic zarond "old man;" Armenian cer "old, old man"). 中文词源 gerontology ：老年学 来自PIE*gere, 生长，
• gerontocracy 英文词源 gerontocracy (n.) "rule by old men," 1830, a Latinized compound of Greek stem of geron (genitive gerontos ) "old man" (see gerontology ) + kratia "rule" (see -cracy ). Related: Gerontocratic . 中文词源 gerontocracy ：老人统治 geront-, 老人。-cracy, 统治，见democracy. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： gerontocracy 词源， gerontocracy 含义。
• germinate 英文词源 germinate germinate: see germ germinate (v.) c. 1600, probably a back-formation from germination . Figurative use from 1640s. Related: Germinated ; germinating . Earlier germynen (mid-15c.) was from Old French germiner or directly from Latin germinare . 中文词源 germinate ：萌芽 来自germ, 萌芽。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： germinate 词源， ger
• germicide 英文词源 germicide (n.) "substance capable of killing germs, 1881, from germ + -cide . Related: Germicidal . 中文词源 germicide ：杀菌剂 germ, 细菌。-cide, 杀。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： germicide 词源， germicide 含义。
• germanium 英文词源 germanium (n.) chemical element, coined 1885 in Modern Latin by its discoverer (German chemist Clemens Alexander Winkler (1838-1904)) from Latin Germania "Germany" (see Germany ) + chemical ending -ium . 中文词源 germanium ：锗 来自其发现者19世纪德国科学家Clemens Alexander Winkler以祖国Germany命名的金属元素。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文
• germane 英文词源 germane germane: [19] Germane is an alteration of german ‘closely related’ [14], which now survives only in the rather archaic expression cousin-german . This came via Old French germain from Latin germānus , which meant ‘of the same race’ (it was a derivative of germen ‘sprout, offspring’, from which English gets germ ). The use of germane for ‘relevant’ as opposed t
• German 英文词源 german (adj.) "of the same parents or grandparents," c. 1300, from Old French germain "own, full; born of the same mother and father; closely related" (12c.), from Latin germanus "full, own (of brothers and sisters); one's own brother; genuine, real, actual, true," related to germen (genitive germinis ) "sprout, bud," of uncertain origin; perhaps dissimilated from PIE *gen(e)-men- , f
• germ 英文词源 germ germ: [17] As its close relatives germane and germinate [17] suggest, germ has more to do etymologically with ‘sprouting’ and ‘coming to life’ than with ‘disease’. It comes via Old French germe from Latin germen ‘sprout, offshoot’, which may go back ultimately to the Indo- European base * gen - ‘produce’ (source of English gene , generate , genitive , etc). Th
• geriatrician 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random farinaceous farinaceous: see farrago 中文词源 geriatrician ：老年病医学专家 来自geriatric, 老年医学。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： geriatrician 词源， geriatrician 含义。
• geriatric 英文词源 geriatric (adj.) 1909, formed in English from Latinized forms of Greek geras , geros "old age" (from PIE root *gere- (1) "to grow old;" see gerontology ) + iatrikos "of a physician," from iatros (see -iatric ). 中文词源 geriatric ：老年医学 geri-, 老人，老年。-atric, 治疗，见psychiatric. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： geriatric 词源， geri
• gerbil 英文词源 gerbil (n.) 1849, gerbile , from French gerbille , from Modern Latin Gerbillus , the genus name, from gerbo , from Arabic yarbu . Earlier English form, jarbuah (1660s), was directly from Arabic. 中文词源 gerbil ：沙鼠 来自阿拉伯语。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： gerbil 词源， gerbil 含义。
• geranium 英文词源 geranium geranium: [16] The native English name for the ‘geranium’, cranesbill , shows that the same thought occurred independently to the speakers of two independent languages many miles and centuries apart. For the plant’s seed case is long and pointed, very much like the beak of a crane; and geranium comes via Latin from Greek geránion , literally ‘little crane’, a dimin
• geothermal 英文词源 geothermal (adj.) 1875, from geo- + thermal . 中文词源 geothermal ：地热的 geo-, 地，地球。thermal, 热的。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： geothermal 词源， geothermal 含义。 geothermal ：地热的，地温的，地热(或地温)产生的 词根词缀： -geo-地球,大地 + -therm-热 + -al形容词词尾
• georgette 英文词源 georgette "A thin silk or crêpe dress material", Early 20th century: named after Georgette de la Plante ( circa 1900), French dressmaker. 中文词源 georgette ：乔其纱 来自20世纪初法国服装设计师Georgette de la Plante. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： georgette 词源， georgette 含义。
• geometry 英文词源 geometry (n.) early 14c., also gemetrie , gemetry , from Old French geometrie (12c., Modern French géométrie ), from Latin geometria , from Greek geometria "measurement of earth or land; geometry," from comb. form of ge "earth, land" (see Gaia ) + -metria (see -metry ). Rendered in Old English as eorðcræft , "earth-craft." 中文词源 geometry ：几何 geo-, 地，地球。-metr
• geomancy 英文词源 geomancy (n.) "art of divination by means of signs derived from the earth," late 14c., from Old French géomancie , from Medieval Latin geomantia , from late Greek *geomanteia , from geo- , comb. form of ge "earth" (see Gaia ) + manteia "divination" (see -mancy ). Related: Geomantic ; geomantical . 中文词源 geomancy ：风水，泥土占卜 geo-, 地，地球。-mancy, 占卜，预言