英语词源

• gaiety 英文词源 gaiety (n.) "cheerfulness, mirth," 1630s, from French gaieté (Old French gaiete , 12c.), from gai "gay" (see gay ). In the 1890s, in Britain, especially with reference to a London theater of that name, and the kind of musical shows and dancing girls it presented. 中文词源 gaiety ：欢乐 来自gay, 欢乐。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： gaiety 词源，
• Gaia 英文词源 Gaia (n.) Earth as a goddess, from Greek Gaia , spouse of Uranus, mother of the Titans, personification of gaia "earth" (as opposed to heaven), "land" (as opposed to sea), "a land, country, soil;" it is a collateral form of ge (Dorian ga ) "earth," which is of unknown origin and perhaps from a pre-Indo-European language of Greece. The Roman equivalent goddess of the earth was Tellus (
• gaggle 英文词源 gaggle (n.) late 15c., gagyll , with reference to both geese and women (on the notion of "chattering company"). Barnhart says possibly from Old Norse gagl "small goose, gosling, wild goose;" OED calls it "one of the many artificial terms invented in the 15th c. as distinctive collectives referring to particular animals or classes of persons." Possibly of imitative origin (compare Dutc
• gaga 英文词源 gaga (adj.) "crazy, silly," 1920, probably from French gaga "senile, foolish," probably imitative of meaningless babbling. 中文词源 gaga ：迷糊，着迷 拟声词，模仿含糊不清的声音。引申义迷糊。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： gaga 词源， gaga 含义。
• gag 英文词源 gag gag: [15] Middle English gaggen meant ‘strangle, suffocate’, so the word started out with strong connotations that seem to have become submerged in local dialects as it came to be used more commonly in the milder sense ‘obstruct someone’s mouth’. In the 20th century, however, they have re-emerged in the intransitive sense ‘choke’. It is not clear how the 19th-century
• gaffer 英文词源 gaffer (n.) 1580s, "elderly rustic," apparently (based on continental analogies) a contraction of godfather (compare gammer ). Originally a term of respect, also applied familiarly; from "old man" it was extended by 1841 to foremen and supervisors, which sense carried over in early 20c. to "electrician in charge of lighting on a film set." 中文词源 gaffer ：领班，工头 来自
• gaffe 英文词源 gaffe (n.) "blunder," 1909, perhaps from French gaffe "clumsy remark," originally "boat hook," from Middle French gaffe (15c.), from Old Provençal gafar "to seize," probably from a Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *gaf- , which is perhaps from PIE *kap- "to grasp, catch" (see capable ). Sense connection between the hook and the blunder is obscure; the gaff was used to land big fi
• gaff 英文词源 gaff (n.1) "iron hook," c. 1300, gaffe , from Old French gaffe "boat hook" (see gaffe ). Specifically of the hook on a fishing spear from 1650s. As a type of spar from 1769. Related: gaff-hook . gaff (n.2) "talk," 1812, in phrase blow the gaff "spill a secret," of uncertain origin. OED points out Old English gafspræc "blasphemous or ribald speech," and Scottish gaff "loud, rude talk"
• Gaeltacht 英文词源 Gaeltacht "A region of Ireland in which the vernacular language is Irish", Irish, earlier Gaedhealtacht , from Gaedheal 'Gael' + tacht 'talk, speech'. 中文词源 Gaeltacht ：苏格兰和爱尔兰盖尔语地区 爱尔兰语。Gael, 盖尔。-tacht, 说话，语言。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： Gaeltacht 词源， Gaeltacht 含义。
• Gaelic 英文词源 Gaelic (adj.) 1774, "of or pertaining to the Gaels" (meaning originally in English the Scottish Highlanders); 1775 as a noun, "language of the Celts of the Scottish Highlands;" earlier Gathelik (1590s), from Gael (Scottish Gaidheal ; see Gael ) + -ic . 中文词源 Gaelic ：盖尔语 来自凯尔特语，民族名。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： Gaelic 词源，
• gadzooks 英文词源 gadzooks (interj.) 1690s, a condensed form of some exclamation, usually said to be God's hooks (nails of Christ's Cross) or even God's hocks . Compare godsookers (1670s). The use of Gad for God (as in egad ) is first attested 1590s. Among other similar "phraseological combinations" noted by OED (all from 17c.) were gadsbobs , gadslid , gadsniggers , gadsbudlikins , and gadsnouns ; in
• gadolinium 英文词源 gadolinium (n.) metallic element, with element ending -ium + gadolinia , an earth named 1886 by J.C. Marginac in honor of Johan Gadolin (1760-1852), Finnish mineralogist and chemist, who in 1794 first began investigation of the earth (subsequently called gadolinite , 1802) which eventually yielded this element and several others. 中文词源 gadolinium ：钆 纪念18世纪芬兰矿物
• gadgetry 英文词源 Rube Goldberg (adj.) 1940, from the U.S. cartoonist Reuben Lucius Goldberg (1883-1970) who devised fantastically complex gadgetry to accomplish simple tasks. His British counterpart was Heath Robinson (1872-1944). 中文词源 gadgetry ：小器具 来自gadget, 不知名的小装置。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： gadgetry 词源， gadgetry 含义。
• gadget 英文词源 gadget gadget: [19] Gadget is an elusive sort of word, as vague in its history as it is unspecific in its meaning. It seems to have originated as a piece of sailors’ slang, and is said to have been current as long ago as the 1850s, but the earliest record of it in print is from 1886, in R Brown’s Spun Yarn and Spindrift : ‘Then the names of all the other things on board a ship!
• gadfly 英文词源 gadfly gadfly: see yard gadfly (n.) also gad-fly , 1620s, "fly which bites cattle," probably from gad (n.) "goad, metal rod," here in the sense of "stinger;" but the sense is entangled with gad (v.) "rove about" (on the notion, perhaps, of the insect's power of flight or of the restlessness of animals plagued by them), and another early meaning of gadfly was "someone who likes to go a
• gadabout 英文词源 gadabout (n.) "one who gads or walks idly about, especially from motives of curiosity or gossip" [Century Dictionary], 1830; see gad (v.) + about (adv.). As an adjective from 1817. Verbal phrase gadder about is attested from 1560s. 中文词源 gadabout ：好社交者 来自gad, 游荡。比喻义好社交者，喜欢与人打交道的人。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英
• gad 英文词源 gad (v.) mid-15c., gadden , "go quickly, hurry," of uncertain origin, perhaps from gad (n.) "sharp stick for driving oxen" on the notion of moving as animals do when being driven by a gad. There also was a Middle English gadeling (Old English gædeling ) "kinsman, companion in arms; fellow, man," but which had a deteriorated sense of "person of low birth, rogue, vagabond" by c. 1300 (
• gaboon 英文词源 gaboon "A tropical West African hardwood tree which is valued for its timber", Early 20th century: from Gaboon (now Gabon). 中文词源 gaboon ：加蓬桃花心木 因产自非洲国家加蓬而得名。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： gaboon 词源， gaboon 含义。
• gable 英文词源 gable gable: [14] The notion underlying gable is probably of ‘topping’ or ‘surmounting’, for it has been traced back by some to prehistoric Indo-European * ghebhalā , which also produced Greek kephalé ‘head’. Its immediate source was Old Norse gafl , which gave English the form gavel , subsequently remodelled on the basis of Old French gable (itself probably borrowed ori
• gabion 英文词源 gabion "A cylindrical basket or container filled with earth, stones, or other material and used in civil engineering works or (formerly) fortifications", Mid 16th century: via French from Italian gabbione , from gabbia 'cage', from Latin cavea . 中文词源 gabion ：石笼（筑堤等用的铁丝网） 词源同cave, 空的，洞穴。-on, 大词后缀。因形似大洞穴而得名。
• gabfest 英文词源 gabfest (n.) "session of conversation," 1895, American English colloquial, from gab + -fest . 中文词源 gabfest ：杂谈会 gab,唠叨。fest, 节日。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： gabfest 词源， gabfest 含义。
• gabble 英文词源 gabble (n.) "senseless, loud, rapid talk; animal noise," c. 1600, from gabble (v.). gabble (v.) "to talk noisily, rapidly, and incoherently," 1570s, frequentative of gab (v.), or else imitative. Related: Gabbled ; gabbling . 中文词源 gabble ：含混不清的说话 来自gab, 唠叨。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： gabble 词源， gabble 含义。
• gabardine 英文词源 gabardine gabardine: [16] The use of gabardine for a sort of worsted material is an early 20th-century development, but the word itself has been around much longer than that. Its central meaning (for which the usual spelling is gaberdine ) is ‘long coarse outer garment’. English acquired it from Old French gauvardine , which was a development of an earlier gallevardine . This was
• gab 英文词源 gab (v.) "talk much," 1786, probably via Scottish and northern England dialect from earlier sense "speak foolishly; talk indiscreetly" (late 14c.), from gabben "to scoff, jeer; mock (someone), ridicule; reproach (oneself)," also "to lie to" (late 13c.), from a Scandinavian source, such as Old Norse gabba "to mock, make fun of," and probably in part from Old French gaber "to mock, jest
• Gypsy 英文词源 gypsy gypsy: [16] It appears that in late medieval Europe, it was widely believed that the Roma people originated in Egypt. They first appeared in England around the beginning of the 16th century, and at first were generally referred to as ‘Egyptians’ (a name which survived well into the 18th century). Egyptian was soon eroded to gyptian , and by the end of the 16th century a new
• gerrymander 英文词源 gerrymander gerrymander: [19] The story goes that in 1812 the governor of Massachusetts, Elbridge Gerry, instituted some electoral boundary changes favourable to his party, the Democrats. When a painter named Stuart saw these outlined on a map in the office of a newspaper editor, he remarked that the resulting area resembled a salamander in shape. ‘A gerrymander, you mean!’ replie
• guy 英文词源 guy guy: English has two separate words guy . The guy of guy rope [14] was probably borrowed from a Low German word (of which Dutch gei ‘rope used for hauling a sail in’ may well be a descendant), but its ultimate ancestry is not clear. Guy ‘fellow, man’ [19] originated as an American English generalization of guy ‘effigy of Guy Fawkes burned on 5 November’ – a sense fir
• gamut 英文词源 gamut gamut: [15] Gamut began life as a medieval musical term. The 11th-century French-born musical theorist Guido d’Arezzo devised the ‘hexachord’, a six-note scale used for sightreading music (and forerunner of the modern tonic sol-fa). The notes were mnemonically named ut , re , mi , fa , sol , la (after, according to legend, syllables in a Latin hymn to St John: ‘ Ut quean
• grotesque 英文词源 grotesque grotesque: [16] Etymologically, grotesque means ‘grotto-like’. Its Italian source, grottesco , was used in the phrase pittura grottesca , literally ‘grotto-like pictures’, denoting wall paintings of the sort discovered in the excavated basements of old buildings. Many of them were evidently bizarre or highly imaginative, and so grottesca came to mean ‘fanciful, fan
• guillotine 英文词源 guillotine guillotine: [18] Joseph Ignace Guillotin (1738– 1814), a French doctor, did not invent the device named after him – such contraptions had been around for some time – but it was he who saw the advantages, in terms of speed and efficiency, of an easily resettable blade for beheading in a time of peak demand, and he recommended it to the Revolutionary authorities. The te
• gorilla 英文词源 gorilla gorilla: [19] The first we hear of gorilla is as a word used in a Greek translation of the 5thcentury BC Carthaginian explorer Hanno’s account of a voyage to West Africa. He reported encountering there a tribe of wild hairy people, whose females were, according to a local interpreter, called goríllas . In 1847 the American missionary and scientist Thomas Savage adopted the
• galvanize 英文词源 galvanize galvanize: [19] The verb galvanize commemorates the work of Italian physicist Luigi Galvani (1737–98), who in 1762 discovered voltaic electricity by attaching the legs of dead frogs to pairs of different metals. It was first used literally, for the production of muscular spasms by electrical means (Sydney Smith in 1825: ‘Galvanize a frog, don’t galvanize a tiger’), b
• go Dutch 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random uproar uproar: [16] Uproar has no direct etymological connection with roar . It originally meant ‘uprising, insurrection’, and was borrowed from Dutch oproer . This is a compound formed from op ‘up’ and roer ‘movement’. It was first used in English by William Tindale, in his 1526 translation of the Bible (for Acts 21
• gazette 英文词源 gazette gazette: [17] If the Sun or the Mirror were called the 22p , they would be echoing the origins of the word gazette . In Renaissance Venice, a ‘newspaper’ was termed casually gazeta de la novita ( gazeta for short), literally a ‘pennyworth of news’ – for a gazeta was the name of a small Venetian copper coin (probably a diminutive form of gazza ‘magpie’). Italian t
• gentleman 英文词源 gentleman (n.) c. 1200, perhaps mid-12c., "well-born man, man of good family or birth," also extended to Roman patricians and ancient Greek aristocrats, from gentle + man (n.); the compound probably is modeled on Old French gentilhomme (the English gentleman itself was borrowed into French in 18c.). Given specific uses in late Middle English ( small gentleman , gentleman-of-arms , gen
• graham 英文词源 Graham family name attested from early 12c., an Anglo-French form of the place name Grantham (Lincolnshire). In reference to crackers, bread, etc., made from unsifted whole-wheat flour, 1834, American English, from Sylvester Graham (1794-1851), U.S. dietetic reformer and temperance advocate. Related: Grahamism . Graham's law in physics (1845) is a reference to Scottish chemist Thomas
• grenade 英文词源 grenade grenade: [16] The original grenades were small spherical explosive-filled cases with a wick on top. In shape, they bore more than a passing resemblance to pomegranates. The Old French term for ‘pomegranate’ was pome grenate , or just grenate for short, and it was this abbreviated form, altered to grenade under the influence of the related Spanish granada , that was applied
• gun 英文词源 gun gun: [14] Gun probably comes, unlikely as it may seem, from the Scandinavian female forename Gunnhildr (originally a compound of gunnr ‘war’ and hildr ‘war’). It is by no means unusual for large fearsome weapons to be named after women (for reasons perhaps best left to psychologists): the huge German artillery weapon of World War I, Big Bertha , and the old British army mu
• gothic 英文词源 Gothic (adj.) "of the Goths," the ancient Germanic people, "pertaining to the Goths or their language," 1610s, from Late Latin Gothicus , from Gothi , Greek Gothoi (see Goth ). Old English had Gotisc . As a noun, "the language of the Goths," from 1757. Gothic was used by 17c. scholars to mean "Germanic, Teutonic," hence its use from 1640s as a term for the art style that emerged in no
• gargantuan 英文词源 gargantuan (adj.) "enormous," 1590s, from Gargantua , name of the voracious giant in Rabelais' novels, supposedly from Spanish/Portuguese garganta "gullet, throat," which is from the same imitative root as gargle (v.). 中文词源 gargantuan （巨大的）：法国名著《巨人传》的主人公高康大 英语单词gargantuan来自法国讽刺作家拉伯雷（Rabelais）的作品《
• gladiator 英文词源 gladiator gladiator: [16] The main Latin word for ‘sword’ was gladius . It was probably borrowed from a Celtic word, in which case its relatives would include Irish claideb , Welsh cleddyf , and Scots Gaelic claidheamh (which with the addition of mór ‘great’ produced English claymore [18]). Among its derivatives were gladiātor , literally ‘swordsman’, and gladiolus , lit
• grammar 英文词源 grammar grammar: [14] Etymologically, grammar is the ‘art of letters’. The word comes via Anglo- Norman gramere , Old French gramaire , and Latin grammatica from Greek grammatiké , a noun use of the adjective grammatikós ‘of letters’ (whence English grammatical [16]). This was a derivative of the noun grámma ‘something written’, hence ‘letter of the alphabet’, which
• gladiolus 英文词源 gladiolus (n.) "wild iris," c. 1000, from Latin gladiolus "wild iris, sword-lily," literally "small sword," diminutive of gladius "sword" (see gladiator ); the plant so called by Pliny in reference to its sword-shaped leaves. The Old English form of the word was gladdon . Form gladiol is attested from mid-15c.; the modern use perhaps represents a 1560s reborrowing from Latin. 中文词源
• garlic 英文词源 garlic garlic: see goad garlic (n.) Middle English garlek , from Old English garlec (West Saxon), garleac (Mercian), "garlic," from gar "spear" (in reference to the clove), see gar , + leac "leek" (see leek ). Garlic-bread is from 1958. 中文词源 garlic （大蒜）：既像韭葱又像矛头的植物 在古代和中世纪，人们把蒜当作护身符带在身上避邪。古罗马人
• gout 英文词源 gout gout: [13] Latin gutta meant literally ‘drop’ (the spelling of gutta in English gutta percha [19] shows its influence, although in fact the term originated in Malay getah percha ‘gum tree’). It was applied metaphorically to various diseases ascribed to the precipitation of fluids from one part of the body to another, among them pain in the joints which was supposed to be
• Gnosticism 英文词源 Gnosticism (n.) 1660s, from Gnostic + -ism . 中文词源 Gnosticism （诺斯替主义）：宣扬“灵性知识”的希腊哲学思想 Gnosticism（“诺斯替主义”）是希腊哲学晚期的一种思想，认为物质世界是 邪恶的，灵魂从灵性世界堕落至邪恶的物质世界，只能通过“灵性知识”才能得到救赎，重返灵性世界。他们把这种
• glamour 英文词源 glamour glamour: [18] Unlikely as it may seem, glamour is ultimately the same word as grammar . This seems to have been used in the Middle Ages for ‘learning’ in general, and hence, by superstitious association, for ‘magic’ (there is no actual record of this, but the related gramarye was employed in that sense). Scottish English had the form glamour for grammar ( l is phonetic
• ghost 英文词源 ghost ghost: [OE] In Old English times, ghost was simply a synonym for ‘spirit’ or ‘soul’ (a sense preserved in Holy Ghost ); it did not acquire its modern connotations of the ‘disembodied spirit of a dead person appearing among the living’ until the 14th century. However, since it has been traced back to Indo-European * ghois - or * gheis -, which also produced Old Norse
• gust 英文词源 gust gust: [16] The underlying meaning of gust is ‘sudden rush or gush’, and related words refer to water or steam rather than wind. It was borrowed from Old Norse gustr ‘gust’, and the closely connected geysa ‘gush’ produced English geyser [18]. = geyser gust (n.) 1580s, "sudden squall of wind," possibly a dialectal survival from Old Norse gustr "a cold blast of wind" (re
• griffin 英文词源 griffin (n.) c. 1200 (as a surname), from Old French grifon "a bird of prey," also "fabulous bird of Greek mythology" (with head and wings of an eagle, body and hind quarters of a lion, believed to inhabit Scythia and guard its gold), named for its hooked beak, from Late Latin gryphus , misspelling of grypus , variant of gryps (genitive grypos ) "griffin," from Greek gryps (genitive g
• gorgon 英文词源 gorgon (n.) late 14c., in Greek legend, any of the three hideous sisters, with writhing serpents for hair, whose look turned beholders to stone, from Greek Gorgones (plural; singular Gorgo ) "the grim ones," from gorgos "terrible, fierce, grim," of unknown origin. Transferred sense of "terrifyingly ugly person" is from 1520s. Their names were Medusa, Euryale, and Stheino, but when onl
• geo- 英文词源 geo- word-forming element meaning "earth, the Earth," ultimately from Greek geo- , comb. form of Attic and Ionic ge "the earth, land, a land or country" (see Gaia ). 中文词源 geo- （地球）：希腊神话中的大地女神盖亚 在古希腊神话中，掌管地球的女神称为“盖亚”（Gaia或Gaea），通常被翻译为 “大地女神”。她由混沌之神卡俄斯所
• genius 英文词源 genius genius: [16] Latin genius originally meant ‘deity of generation and birth’. It came ultimately from the Indo-European base * gen - ‘produce’ (source of English gene , generate , genitive , etc), probably via a derivative * gnjos . It broadened out considerably in meaning, initially to ‘attendant spirit’, the sense in which English originally acquired it (French took
• Greek calends 英文词源 blue moon (n.) 1821 as a specific term in the sense "very rarely," perhaps suggesting something that, in fact, never happens (compare at the Greek calends , and the native in the reign of Queen Dick and Saint Geoffrey's Day "Never, there being no saint of that name," reported in Grose (1788)); suggested earliest in this couplet from 1528: Yf they say the mone is blewe, We must beleve
• Greek gift 英文词源 Greek (adj.) late 14c., "of Greece or its people," from Greek (n.). Earlier Gregeis (c. 1200), from Old French Gregois ; also Greekish (Old English Grecisc ). From 1540s as "of the Greek language;" 1550s as "of the Eastern Church." From 1888 as "of Greek-letter fraternities." In venery, "anal," by 1970. Greek fire "inflammable substance invented 7c. by Callinicus of Heliopolis and use
• grape 英文词源 grape grape: [13] Not surprisingly, given the northerliness of the British Isles, English does not have its own native word for ‘grape’. In Old English it was was called wīnberige , literally ‘wineberry’, and the Old French word grape which Middle English borrowed as grape meant ‘bunch of grapes’, not ‘grape’. It was probably a derivative of the verb graper ‘gather
• gymnastics 英文词源 gymnastics (n.) 1650s, from gymnastic ; also see -ics . 中文词源 gymnastics （体操）：古希腊的裸体健身运动 古希腊人崇尚强壮体魄的各种运动，更崇尚裸体运动，因为他们崇尚人体美，认为人体的健美只有通过不着服装才能体现得淋漓尽致。因此，古希腊人把各种健身运动称为Gymnastike，由gymnos（意为裸体）
• genuine 英文词源 genuine genuine: [16] Latin genu meant ‘knee’ (it comes from the same Indo-European ancestor as English knee , and gave English genuflection [16]). In Rome and elsewhere in the ancient world, it was the convention for a father to acknowledge a newly-born child as his own by placing it on his knee – hence the child was genuinus . = genuflection , knee genuine (adj.) 1590s, "natur
• good bye 英文词源 good-bye salutation in parting, also goodbye , good bye , good-by , 1590s, from godbwye (1570s), a contraction of God be with ye (late 14c.), influenced by good day , good evening , etc. As a noun from 1570s. Intermediate forms in 16c. include God be wy you , God b'uy , God buoye , God buy , etc. 中文词源 good bye （再见）：离别时的祝福语“上帝与你同在” 在古代
• gossip 英文词源 gossip gossip: [OE] The Anglo-Saxons’ term for a ‘godparent’ was godsibb , a compound formed from god ‘god’ (just as in modern English godmother , godfather , etc) and sib ‘relative’ (a word of unknown origin from which modern English gets sibling ). It denotes one’s ‘relative in God’, one’s ‘spiritual relative’. By Middle English times, however, it had come
• gospel 英文词源 gospel gospel: [OE] Etymologically, gospel is ‘good news’. It was coined in Old English as gōdspel , a compound of gōd ‘good’ and spel ‘discourse, tidings, news’ (the same word as the modern English magic spell ), which was a direct translation of Latin bona annuntiatio . This in turn was a literal interpretation or gloss of ecclesiastical Latin evangelium (whence Englis
• galaxy 英文词源 galaxy galaxy: [14] The Greeks had a word for the ‘Milky Way’ – and indeed it was very much the same as ours. They called it galaxías , which was originally an adjective, ‘milky’, derived from the noun gála ‘milk’. English acquired it via late Latin galaxiās and Old French galuxie . (The term Milky Way , incidentally, which originated as a translation of Latin via lac
• giant 英文词源 giant (n.) c. 1300, "fabulous man-like creature of enormous size," from Old French geant , earlier jaiant "giant, ogre" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *gagantem (nominative gagas ), from Latin gigas "a giant," from Greek Gigas (usually in plural, Gigantes ), one of a race of divine but savage and monstrous beings (personifying destructive natural forces), sons of Gaia and Uranus, eventuall
• geography 英文词源 geography geography: [16] All the English ‘ geo -’ words ( geography , geology [18], geometry [14], etc) come ultimately from Greek gē ‘earth’, a word probably of pre-Indo-European origin, whose Homeric form gaia was used as the name of the Greek goddess of the earth. Geography denotes literally the ‘describing of the earth’; geometry the ‘measuring of the earth’ (fro
• Fiji 英文词源 Fiji of uncertain origin, considered in Room to be probably a variant of Viti , main island of the group. 中文词源 Fiji ：斐济 斐济群岛的主岛名为Viti Levu（维提）。它与这个国家国名Fiji是有关联的。当库克船长与他的船员们造访汤加（另一个太平洋岛国）时，他问汤加土著民他们邻居的岛屿名字叫什么，汤加人用他们
• Finland 英文词源 Finn (n.) Old English finnas , from Old Norse finnr , the Norsemen's name for the Suomi . Some suggest a connection with fen . Attested in Tacitus as Fenni . Finlander in English is from 1727. Linux computer operating system, named for Linux kernel , written 1991 by Linus Torvalds of Finland (who coined the word but did not choose it as the name). mink (n.) early 15c., "skin or fur of
• Florida 英文词源 Florida U.S. state, formerly a Spanish colony, probably from Spanish Pascua florida , literally "flowering Easter," a Spanish name for Palm Sunday, and so named because the peninsula was discovered on that day (March 20, 1513) by the expedition of Spanish explorer Ponce de León (1474-1521). From Latin floridus "flowery, in bloom" (see florid ). Related: Floridian (1580s as a noun, in
• fugacity 英文词源 fugacious (adj.) "fleeing, likely to flee," 1630s, with -ous + Latin fugaci- , stem of fugax "apt to flee, timid, shy," figuratively "transitory, fleeting," from fugere "to flee" (see fugitive ). Related: Fugaciously ; fugaciousness ; fugacity . 中文词源 fugacity ：易逃逸，无常，不安定 词根词缀： -fug-逃离 + -acity名词词尾 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词
• frigidarium 英文词源 frigidarium "A cold room in an ancient Roman bath", Latin. 中文词源 frigidarium ：冷水浴室，保持低温的房间  词根词缀： -frig-寒冷 + -id形容词词尾 + -arium名词词尾 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： frigidarium 词源， frigidarium 含义。
• frailty 英文词源 frailty (n.) mid-14c., freylte , from Old French fraileté "frailty, weakness," from Latin fragilitatem (nominative fragilitas ) "weakness, frailty," from fragilis "fragile" (see fragility ). Related: Frailties . 中文词源 frailty ：脆弱，虚弱；(性格或行为上的)弱点，缺点  词根词缀： frail(-frag-)打破,打碎 + -ty名词词尾 该词的英语词源请访问趣
• fragmentize 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random beard beard: [OE] Old English beard came from West Germanic * bartha , which was also the source of German bart and Dutch baard . A close relative of this was Latin barba ‘beard’, which gave English barb [14] (via Old French barbe ), barber [13] (ultimately from medieval Latin barbātor , originally a ‘beard-trimmer’), a
• fragmentate 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random military military: [16] Military traces its history back to Latin mīles ‘soldier’, a word possibly of Etruscan origin. Its derived adjective mīlitāris entered English via French militaire . Also based on mīles was the verb mīlitāre ‘serve as a soldier’, which has given English militant [15] and militate [17], a ver
• fragility 英文词源 fragility (n.) late 14c., "moral weakness," from Old French fragilité "debility, frailty" (12c.), from Latin fragilitatem (nominative fragilitas ) "brittleness, weakness," from fragilis "brittle, easily broken," from root of frangere "to break" (see fraction ). Meaning "quality of being easily broken" is from late 15c. 中文词源 fragility ：脆弱，虚弱  词根词缀： -frag
• fractionate 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random diddle diddle: [19] The current meaning of diddle , ‘to cheat or swindle’, was probably inspired by Jeremy Diddler, a character who was constantly borrowing money and neglecting to repay it in James Kenney’s play Raising the Wind (1803) (the expression raise the wind means ‘to procure the necessary money’). Diddler imm
• fractional 英文词源 fractional (adj.) 1670s, from fraction + -al (1). Related: Fractionally . 中文词源 fractional ：微不足道的，极小的，极少的；分数的，小数的   词根词缀： -fract-打破,打碎 + -ion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： fractional 词源， fractional 含义。
• formalist 英文词源 formalistic (adj.) 1846; see formalism + -istic . 中文词源 formalist ：形式主义者  词根词缀： -form-形 + -al形容词词尾 + -ist名词词尾 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： formalist 词源， formalist 含义。
• fluxional 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random ranee ranee: see raj 中文词源 fluxional ：流动的，变动的  词根词缀： -flux-流 + -ion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： fluxional 词源， fluxional 含义。
• fluxion 英文词源 fluxion "A function corresponding to the rate of change of a variable quantity; a derivative", Late 17th century: from French, or from Latin flux- 'flowed', from the verb fluere . 中文词源 fluxion ：流动，不断的变化，转变，飞跑，消失  词根词缀： -flux-流 + -ion名词词尾 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： fluxion 词源， fluxion 含义
• floricultural 英文词源 floriculture (n.) 1822, from Latin floris , genitive of flos "flower" (see flora ) + -culture on analogy of agriculture . Related: Floricultural ; floriculturist . 中文词源 floricultural ：种花的，养花的  词根词缀： -flor-花 + -i- + -cult-耕种,培育 + -ure(e略) + -al形容词词尾 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： floricultural 词源， fl
• flexure 英文词源 flexure (n.) 1590s, "action of flexing or bending," from Latin flextura , from flectere "to bend" (see flexible ). From 1620s as "flexed or bent condition; direction in which something is bent." Picked up in mathematics (1670s), geology (1833). 中文词源 flexure ：屈曲，弯曲部分，打褶   词根词缀： -flex-弯曲,曲折 + -ure名词词尾 该词的英语词源请访问
• flexuous 英文词源 flexuous (adj.) "full of bends or curves, winding, sinuous," c. 1600, from Latin flexuosus , from flexus (n.) "a bending," from flectere "to bend" (see flexible ). From 1620s as "undulating." 中文词源 flexuous ：弯弯曲曲的，蜿蜒的  词根词缀： -flex-弯曲,曲折 + -uous形容词词尾 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： flexuous 词源， flexuou
• flexometer 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random doppelganger doppelganger: [19] English borrowed doppelganger from German doppelgänger , which means literally ‘double-goer’. It was originally used in the sense ‘ghostly apparition of a living person, especially one that haunts its real counterpart’ (‘hell-hounds, doppel-gangers, boggleboes’, M A Denham, Denham tra
• flection 英文词源 deflection (n.) also (and with more etymological propriety) deflexion , c. 1600, from Latin deflexionem , noun of action from past participle stem of deflectere (see deflect ). Both forms were present 17c., but the spelling with -c- has come to predominate. genuflection (n.) "act of bending the knee," especially in worship, early 15c., from Middle French génuflexion (14c.) and direct
• flatus 英文词源 flatus (n.) 1660s, "wind in the bowels," from Latin flatus "a blowing," from flare "to blow" (see blow (v.1)). 中文词源 flatus ：肠胃胀气，屁，阵风，气息，一阵风    词根词缀： -flat-吹 + -us名词词尾 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： flatus 词源， flatus 含义。
• flatulence 英文词源 flatulence (n.) 1711, from French flatulence , from flatulent (see flatulent ). Flatulency is from 1650s. 中文词源 flatulence ： 胃肠气胀；浮夸，自负   词根词缀： -flat-吹 + -ulence名词词尾 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： flatulence 词源， flatulence 含义。
• flamy 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random device device: [13] A device is something which has been devised – which, etymologically speaking, amounts to ‘something which has been divided’. For ultimately devise and divide come from the same source. The noun device comes in the first instance from Old French devis ‘division, contrivance’ and latterly (in the 15t
• flagrancy 英文词源 flagrance (n.) "glaring shamefulness," 1610s, from French flagrance or directly from Latin flagrantia "a glow, ardor, a burning desire," noun of quality from flagrantem "burning, blazing, glowing" (see flagrant ). Related: Flagrancy (1590s). 中文词源 flagrancy ：极恶昭彰，臭名远扬，名目张胆   词根词缀： -flagr-燃烧,火焰 + -ancy名词词尾 该词的英语词
• fissure 英文词源 fissure fissure: see vent fissure (n.) c. 1400, from Old French fissure (13c.) and directly from Latin fissura "a cleft," from root of findere "to split, cleave, separate, divide," from PIE *bhi-n-d- , from root *bheid- "to split" (cognates: Sanskrit bhinadmi "I cleave," Old High German bizzan "to bite," Old English bita "a piece bitten off, morsel," Old Norse beita "to hunt with dogs
• fissiped 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random swing swing: [OE] Swing goes back ultimately to a prehistoric Germanic base * swinggw -, which denoted ‘violent circulatory movement’. One of its specific applications was to the wielding of a whip, and indeed the English verb swing originally meant ‘flog’ (‘They bind him and swing him and spit on his face’, Blicklin
• fissiparous 英文词源 fissiparous "Inclined to cause or undergo division into separate parts or groups", Mid 19th century: from Latin fissus , past participle of findere 'split', on the pattern of viviparous . 中文词源 fissiparous ：分裂生殖的，分裂的；有分裂倾向的  词根词缀： -fiss-裂 + -i- + -par-生育 + -ous形容词词尾 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：