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• faulty 英文词源 faulty (adj.) "containing faults, errors, or defects," late 14c., from fault (n.) + -y (2). Related: Faultily ; faultiness . 中文词源 faulty ：有缺点的，有错误的，不完善的 词根词缀： fault过失 + -y形容词词尾 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： faulty 词源， faulty 含义。
• faultless 英文词源 faultless (adj.) mid-14c., "having no blemishes or imperfections," from fault (n.) + -less . Meaning "having no blame, culpability, or guilt" is from 1570s. Related: Faultlessly ; faultlessness . 中文词源 faultless ：无缺点的，无错误的 词根词缀： fault过失 + -less否定 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： faultless 词源， faultless 含义。
• fatality 英文词源 fatality (n.) late 15c., "quality of causing death," from French fatalité , from Late Latin fatalitatem (nominative fatalitas ) "fatal necessity, fatality," from Latin fatalis "ordained by fate; destructive, deadly" (see fatal ). Senses in 16c.-17c. included "determined by fate" and "a destiny." Meaning "an occurrence resulting in widespread death" is from 1840. Related: Fatalities .
• fascinating 英文词源 fascinating (adj.) "bewitching, charming," 1640s, present-participle adjective from fascinate ). Related: Fascinatingly . 中文词源 fascinating ：迷人的，有极大吸引力的 词根词缀： fascinate迷住 + -ing 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： fascinating 词源， fascinating 含义。
• faithfully 英文词源 effigy effigy: [16] Effigy comes ultimately from the Latin verb effingere ‘form, portray’. This was a compound formed from the prefix ex - ‘out’ and fingere ‘make, shape’ (source of English faint , feign , fiction , figment , and related to English dairy and dough ). It formed the basis of the noun effigiēs ‘representation, likeness, portrait’, which was borrowed into
• faithful 英文词源 faithful (adj.) early 14c., "sincerely religious, devout, pious," especially in reference to Christian practice; mid-14c., "loyal (to a lord, friend, spouse, etc.); true; honest, trustworthy," from faith + -ful . From late 14c. in reference to a tale, a report, etc., "accurate, reliable, true to the facts." The noun sense of "true believer, one who is full of faith" is from late 14c.
• factual 英文词源 factual (adj.) 1834, formed from fact on model of actual . Related: Factually . 中文词源 factual ：事实的，真实的 词根词缀： -fact-做,作 + -ual形容词词尾 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： factual 词源， factual 含义。
• fabulist 英文词源 fabulist (n.) 1590s, "inventor or writer of fables," from French fabuliste , from Latin fabula "story, tale" (see fable (n.)). The earlier word in English was fabler (late 14c.); the Latin term was fabulator . 中文词源 fabulist ：寓言作家，撒谎的人    -fa-说 → -fab-寓言,传说 词根词缀： -fab-寓言,传说 + ul + -ist名词词尾 该词的英语词源请访问
• fabricator 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random common common: [13] Common comes ultimately from an Indo-European base * moi -, * mei -, signifying ‘change, exchange’, which also produced English immune , mutate , mutual , and remunerate . A derivative of this base, * moin -, * mein - seems to have joined up with the Indo- European collective * kom - to produce * komoin -
• fabrication 英文词源 fabrication (n.) c. 1500, "manufacturing, construction," from Middle French fabrication and directly from Latin fabricationem (nominative fabricatio ) "a structure, construction, a making," noun of action from past participle stem of fabricare "to make, construct" (see fabricate ). Meaning "lying, falsehood, forgery" is from 1790. 中文词源 fabrication ：编造，虚构，捏造 词
• fabricant 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random riparian riparian: see river 中文词源 fabricant ：制造者，制作者  词根词缀： -fabric-制作 + -ant名词词尾 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： fabricant 词源， fabricant 含义。
• fren- 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random heresy heresy: [13] Etymologically, a heresy is a ‘choice’ one makes. The word comes ultimately from Greek haíresis ‘choice’, a derivative of hairein ‘take, choose’. This was applied metaphorically to a ‘course of action or thought which one chooses to take’, hence to a particular ‘school of thought’, and ul
• fender 英文词源 fender (n.) late 13c., shortening of defender . Originally something hung over the side to protect the hull of a ship at a wharf, pier, etc. Of fireplaces since 1680s; of automobiles from 1919. Fender-bender "minor automobile accident" is from 1958. 中文词源 fender ：防御物，挡泥板 fender可以说是defender的缩略形式，也可以说是fend加后缀-er所构成。fend和
• firebug 英文词源 firebug (n.) also fire-bug , "arsonist, incendiary," 1869, from fire (n.) + bug (n.) in the "obsessed person" sense. 中文词源 firebug ：纵火狂，纵火者n. 放火者, 放火狂, 萤火虫 从19世纪初美国人就喜欢用本义为“臭虫”的bug一词来指“热衷于某事的人”或“对某事有癣好者”，诸如travel bug（旅游成癣的人），money bug（财
• fox- trot 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random shock shock: English has two words shock in current general usage. Shock ‘heavy blow, unpleasant surprise’ [16] was borrowed from French choc , a derivative of the verb choquer ‘strike’, whose origins are unknown. Shock ‘thick shaggy mass of hair’ [19] is a nominalization of an earlier adjective shock ‘thick and sh
• fruition 英文词源 fruition (n.) early 15c., "act of enjoying," from Old French fruition and directly from Late Latin fruitionem (nominative fruitio ) "enjoyment," noun of action from past participle stem of Latin frui "to use, enjoy" (see fruit ). Sense of "act or state of bearing fruit," resisted by dictionary editors, is attested by 1885, from association with fruit (n.); figuratively in this sense f
• F 英文词源 Word of Today congratulate congratulate: see grateful 中文词源 F ：英语字母表的第六个字母 英语字母 F 来自希腊字母digamma, ,因其形如两个gamma, 来自腓尼基字母Waw, 钉子，小钩。并由该腓尼基字母衍生F,U,V,W,Y五个字母。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： F 词源， F 含义。
• fuzzy logic 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random superman superman: [20] The term superman was introduced into English in 1903 by George Bernard Shaw in his play Man and Superman . It was a direct translation of German übermensch , coined by the philosopher Friedrich Nietsche to designate a superior, highly evolved human being that transcended good and evil. 中文词源 fuzz
• fuzz 英文词源 fuzz (n.) 1590s, fusse , first attested in fusball "puff ball of tiny spores," of uncertain origin; perhaps a back-formation from fuzzy , if that word is older than the record of it. Meaning "the police" is American English, 1929, underworld slang; origin, signification, and connection to the older word unknown. Perhaps a variant of fuss , with a notion of "hard to please." fuzz (v.)
• fuze 英文词源 fuze (n.) see fuse (n.). 中文词源 fuze ：引信 来自fuse的拼写变体。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： fuze 词源， fuze 含义。
• futurology 英文词源 futurology (n.) 1946 (A. Huxley), from future (n.) + -ology . 中文词源 futurology ：示来学家 来自future, 未来。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： futurology 词源， futurology 含义。
• futurism 英文词源 futurism (n.) 1909 as the name of a movement in arts and literature, from Italian futurismo , coined 1909 by Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876-1944); see future + -ism . Futurist is from 1911 in the arts movement sense; attested from 1842 in a Protestant theological sense ("one who holds that nearly the whole of the Book of Revelations refers principally to events yet to co
• future-proof 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random broadcast broadcast: [18] Broadcast was originally an adjective and adverb, and meant literally ‘scattered widely’, particularly in the context of sowing seeds. A metaphorical sense developed in the late 18th and 19th centuries (William Stubbs, in his Constitutional History of England 1875 writes of ‘broadcast accusations’
• future 英文词源 future future: [14] Future comes via Old French future from Latin futūrus ‘going to be, about to be’, which was used as the future participle of esse ‘be’. It was a descendant of the Indo-European base * bheu - or * bhu -, which originally denoted ‘grow’, and also produced English be , the German present first and second person singular forms bin and bist , and the Latin
• futon 英文词源 futon (n.) 1876, from Japanese, said to mean "bedroll" or "place to rest." 中文词源 futon ：日本床垫 来自日语。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： futon 词源， futon 含义。
• futile 英文词源 futile futile: see found futile (adj.) "incapable of producing result," 1550s, from Middle French futile or directly from Latin futilis , futtilis "vain, worthless, futile," a figurative use, literally "pouring out easily, easily emptied" (the Latin adjective used as a noun meant "a water vessel broad above and pointed below"), hence "leaky, unreliable," from fundere "to pour, melt,"
• fusty 英文词源 fusty fusty: see beat fusty (adj.) "stale-smelling," late 14c., from French fusté "fusty, tasting of the cask," from Old French fuste , fuist "wine cask," originally "stick, stave, wood" (Modern French fût ), from Latin fustis "staff, stick of wood" (see fustigate ). Related: Fustiness . Fustilugs was 17c. slang for "a woman of gross or corpulent habit" [OED], later generally in dia
• fustigate 英文词源 fustigate (v.) "to cudgel, to beat," 1650s, back-formation from Fustication (1560s) or from Latin fusticatus , past participle of fusticare "to cudgel" (to death), from fustis "cudgel, club, staff, stick of wood," of unknown origin. De Vaan writes that "The most obvious connection would be with Latin -futare " "to beat," but there are evolutionary difficulties. 中文词源 fustigate ：
• fustian 英文词源 fustian (n.) "thick cotton cloth," c. 1200, from Old French fustaigne , fustagne (12c., Modern French futaine ), from Medieval Latin fustaneum , perhaps from Latin fustis "staff, stick of wood; cudgel, club" (see fustigate ) as a loan-translation of Greek xylina lina "linens of wood" (i.e. "cotton"). But the Medieval Latin word also is sometimes said to be from Fostat , town near Cair
• fussbudget 英文词源 fussbudget (n.) "nervous, figety person," 1884, from fuss (n.) + budget (n.). One of several similar formulations around this time: Compare fussbox (1901); fusspot (1906). From 1960s associated with the character Lucy in the newspaper comic strip "Peanuts." 中文词源 fussbudget ：大惊小怪的人 比喻用法。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： fussbudget 词
• fuss 英文词源 fuss fuss: [18] The early use of fuss by Irish-born writers such as Jonathan Swift and George Farquhar has led to the supposition that it is of Anglo-Irish origin, but no substantiation for this has ever been found on the other side of the Irish Sea. Among suggestions as to how it came into being have been that it was an alteration of force , as in the now obsolete phrase make no forc
• fusion bomb 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random extraordinary extraordinary: see extra 中文词源 fusion bomb ：氢弹 即核聚变炮弹。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： fusion bomb 词源， fusion bomb 含义。
• fusion 英文词源 fusion (n.) 1550s, "act of melting by heat," from Middle French fusion or directly from Latin fusionem (nominative fusio ) "an outpouring, effusion," noun of action from fusus , past participle of fundere "to pour, melt" (see found (v.2)). Meaning "union or blending of different things; state of being united or blended" is by 1776; used especially in 19c, of politics, in early 20c. of
• fusillade 英文词源 fusillade (n.) "simultaneous discharge of firearms," 1801, from French fusillade , from fusiller "to shoot" (18c.), from fusil "musket" (see fusilier ). As a verb from 1816. 中文词源 fusillade ：枪炮齐发 来自fusilier, 火枪。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： fusillade 词源， fusillade 含义。
• fusilier 英文词源 fusilier (n.) also fusileer , 1670s, "soldier armed with a musket," from French fusilier "musket" (17c.), literally "piece of steel against which a flint strikes flame," from Old French fuisil , foisil "steel for striking fire; flint; whetstone; grindstone" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *focilis (petra) "(stone) producing fire," from Latin focus "hearth," in Vulgar Latin "fire" (see focus
• fusiform 英文词源 fusiform (adj.) "spindle-shaped," 1746, from Latin fusus "a spindle" (see fuse (n.)) + -form . 中文词源 fusiform ：纺锤形 fusi-, 纺锤，词源同fuse. form, 形状。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： fusiform 词源， fusiform 含义。
• fuselage 英文词源 fuselage (n.) 1909, from French fuselage , from fuselé "spindle-shaped," from Old French *fus "a spindle," from Latin fusus "a spindle" (see fuse (n.)). So called from its shape. 中文词源 fuselage ：机身 来自拉丁语fusus, 纺锤，词源同fusiform. 因飞机机身形如纺锤状而得名。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： fuselage 词源， fuselage
• fuse 英文词源 fuse fuse: English has two distinct words fuse . The noun, ‘igniting device’ [17], comes via Italian fuso from Latin fūsus ‘spindle’, a word of unknown origin. Its modern application comes from the fact that the long thin shape of the original gunpowder-filled tubes used for setting off bombs reminded people of spindles. The Vulgar Latin diminutive form of fūsus , * fūsellu
• furze 英文词源 furze furze: see gorse furze (n.) type of evergreen shrub abundant in English heaths, Old English fyrs "furze, gorse, bramble," a word of unknown origin. Related: Furzy . 中文词源 furze ：荆豆属植物 词源不详。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： furze 词源， furze 含义。
• furtive 英文词源 furtive furtive: [15] Etymologically, someone who is furtive ‘carries things away like a thief’. The word comes via Old French furtif from Latin furtīvus ‘stealthy, hidden’, a derivative of furtum ‘theft’, which in turn was based on fūr ‘thief’. This was either borrowed from or related to Greek phór ‘thief’, which came ultimately from Indo-European * bher - ‘c
• furthest 英文词源 furthest (adj., adv.) late 14c., formed as superlatives to further (adj. and adv.). 中文词源 furthest ：最远 用做far的最高级。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： furthest 词源， furthest 含义。
• further 英文词源 further further: [OE] Etymologically, further is simply a comparative form of forth , and originally meant nothing more than simply ‘more forward’. Its more metaphorical senses, ‘in addition’ and ‘to a greater extent’, are secondary developments. It was formed in the pre-historic Germanic period, and so has relatives in other Germanic languages, such as German vorder . Its
• furrow 英文词源 furrow furrow: [OE] Furrow is an ancient agricultural term, going back to the prehistoric Indo- European base * prk -, which also produced Welsh rhych ‘furrow’, Armenian herk ‘newly ploughed land’, Latin porca ‘ridge between furrows’, and possibly also Sanskrit parçãna - ‘chasm’ and Latin porcus ‘grave’. Its Germanic descendant was * furkh -, which produced Germa
• furrier 英文词源 furrier (n.) "dealer or dresser in furs," late 13c., as a surname, ffurrere , via Anglo-French from Old French forreor "furrier," from forrer "to line or trim with fur" (see fur (n.)). 中文词源 furrier ：毛皮商 来自fur, 毛皮。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： furrier 词源， furrier 含义。
• furred 英文词源 fur (v.) c. 1300 (implied in furred ), from fur (n.) or Old French fourrer "to line." Related: Furring . sporran (n.) furred leather pouch, 1818, from Gaelic sporan, Irish sparan "purse," of uncertain origin. Familiarized by Walter Scott (first attested English use is in "Rob Roy"). 中文词源 furred ：毛皮覆盖的 来自fur, 毛皮。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英
• furphy 英文词源 furphy "A rumour or story, especially one that is untrue or absurd", First World War: from the name painted on water and sanitary carts manufactured by the Furphy family of Shepparton, Victoria; during the war they became popular as a place where soldiers exchanged gossip, often when visiting the latrines. 中文词源 furphy ：传闻，传言 澳大利亚俚语，人名。来自澳大
• furor 英文词源 furor (n.) "rage, madness, angry mania," late 15c., from Middle French fureur (12c.), from Latin furor "a ravaging, rage, madness, passion," which is related to furia "rage, passion, fury" (see fury ). 中文词源 furor ：群情激愤 来自拉丁语furor, 愤怒，发狂，词源同fury. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： furor 词源， furor 含义。
• furniture 英文词源 furniture (n.) 1520s, "act of supplying or providing," from Middle French fourniture "a supply; act of furnishing," from Old French forneture (13c.), from fornir "to furnish" (see furnish ). Sense of "chairs, tables, etc.; household stuff; movables required or ornamental in a dwelling-place" (1570s) is unique to English; most other European languages derive their words for this from L
• furnish 英文词源 furnish furnish: [15] Far apart as they may now seem, furnish is closely parallel in its development with frame . Both originated as verbs based on from , in its earliest signification ‘forward movement, advancement, progress’. Frame was a purely English formation, but furnish goes back beyond that to prehistoric Germanic, where it was formed as * frumjan . This was borrowed into
• furnace 英文词源 furnace furnace: [13] Etymologically, furnace means roughly ‘warm place’. It comes via Old French fornais from Latin fornāx ‘furnace’. This was a derivative of fornus ‘oven’, a word related to formus ‘warm’, which goes back to the same Indo-European source, * ghworm -, * ghwerm -, as probably produced English warm . = fornication furnace (n.) early 13c., from Old Fren
• furlough 英文词源 furlough (n.) 1620s, vorloffe , from Dutch verlof , literally "permission," from Middle Dutch ver- "completely, for" + laf , lof "permission," from Proto-Germanic *laubo- (see leave (v.)). The -gh spelling predominated from 1770s and represents the "f" that had been pronounced at the end of the word but disappeared fairly soon thereafter in English. furlough (v.) 1783, "grant leave of
• furl 英文词源 furl furl: see firm furl (v.) 1550s, of uncertain origin, possibly from Middle French ferler "to furl," from Old French ferliier "chain, tie up, lock away," perhaps from fer "firm" (from Latin firmus ; see firm (adj.)) + -lier "to bind" (from Latin ligare ). Also said to be a shortening of earlier furdle "to furl or fold." Related: Furled ; furling . As a noun from 1640s. 中文词源
• furious 英文词源 furious (adj.) late 14c., "impetuous, unrestrained," from Old French furios , furieus "furious, enraged, livid" (14c., Modern French furieux ), from Latin furiosus "full of rage, mad," from furia "rage, passion, fury" (see fury ). Furioso , from the Italian form of the word, was used in English 17c.-18c. for "an enraged person," probably from Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso." 中文词源
• fur 英文词源 fur fur: [14] Old English did not have a distinct word for ‘animal’s hair’ – the nearest approach to it was fell ‘animal’s hide’. Then in the 13th century English acquired the verb fur ‘line with fur’ from Anglo-Norman * furrer or Old French forrer ‘encase, line’. These were derivatives of the Old French noun forre ‘sheath, case’, a loanword from prehistoric
• funny money 英文词源 fun (n.) "diversion, amusement, mirthful sport," 1727, earlier "a cheat, trick" (c. 1700), from verb fun (1680s) "to cheat, hoax," which is of uncertain origin, probably a variant of Middle English fonnen "befool" (c. 1400; see fond ). Scantly recorded in 18c. and stigmatized by Johnson as "a low cant word." Older senses are preserved in phrase to make fun of (1737) and funny money "c
• funny farm 英文词源 funny (adj.) "humorous," 1756, from fun (n.) + -y (2). Meaning "strange, odd, causing perplexity" is by 1806, said to be originally U.S. Southern (marked as colloquial in Century Dictionary). The two senses of the word led to the retort question "funny ha-ha or funny peculiar," which is attested by 1916. Related: Funnier ; funniest . Funny farm "mental hospital" is slang from 1962. Fu
• funny 英文词源 funny (adj.) "humorous," 1756, from fun (n.) + -y (2). Meaning "strange, odd, causing perplexity" is by 1806, said to be originally U.S. Southern (marked as colloquial in Century Dictionary). The two senses of the word led to the retort question "funny ha-ha or funny peculiar," which is attested by 1916. Related: Funnier ; funniest . Funny farm "mental hospital" is slang from 1962. Fu
• funnel 英文词源 funnel funnel: [15] Etymologically, a funnel is something used for ‘pouring in’. The word comes via Provençal fonilh from Latin infundibulum ‘funnel’. This was a derivative of infundere ‘pour in’, a compound verb formed from in - ‘in’ and fundere ‘pour’ (source of English found ‘melt’, foundry , and fuse ). = found , foundry , fuse funnel (n.) c. 1400, funell
• funky 英文词源 funky (adj.) 1784, "old, musty," in reference to cheeses, then "repulsive," from funk (n.2) + -y (2). It began to develop an approving sense in jazz slang c. 1900, probably on the notion of "earthy, strong, deeply felt." Funky also was used early 20c. by white writers in reference to body odor allegedly peculiar to blacks. The word reached wider popularity c. 1954 (it was defined in "
• funk 英文词源 funk (n.1) "depression, ill-humor," perhaps from earlier sense "cowering state of fear" (1743), identified in OED as originally Oxford slang, probably from Scottish and Northern English verb funk "become afraid, shrink through fear, fail through panic," (1737), of unknown origin. Perhaps from Flemish fonck "perturbation, agitation, distress," which is possibly related to Old French fu
• funicular 英文词源 funicular funicular: [19] A funicular railway is literally one that runs on a ‘rope’. The word was coined from Latin fūniculus , a diminutive form of fūnis ‘rope’ (a word of uncertain origin from which comes Italian fune ‘cable, rope’). Fūnus also gave English funambulist ‘tightrope walker’ [18]. = funambulist funicular (adj.) 1660s, from funicle "a small cord" (166
• fungus 英文词源 fungus fungus: [16] Fungus was introduced into English in the early 16th century as a learned and more all-embracing alternative to mushroom . It was borrowed from Latin fungus , which probably came from Greek sphóngos ‘sponge’, source of English sponge . = sponge fungus (n.) 1520s, "a mushroom," from Latin fungus "a mushroom, fungus;" used in English at first as a learned altern
• fungoid 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random lass lass: [13] Like its male counterpart lad , lass has an obscure past. The form lasce , recorded in the 13th and 14th centuries, suggests the possibility that it may originally have come from a Scandinavian adjective related to Old Swedish løsk ‘unmarried’. 中文词源 fungoid ：类真菌的 fungi-, 菌。-oid, 类，词
• fungicide 英文词源 fungicide (n.) 1889; see fungus + -cide . Related: Fungicidal . 中文词源 fungicide ：杀菌剂 fungi-, 菌。-cid, 杀，词源同herbicide. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： fungicide 词源， fungicide 含义。
• fungal 英文词源 fungal (adj.) 1835, from Modern Latin fungalis , from fungus (see fungus ). As a noun, "a fungus" (1845). Earlier adjective was fungic 1804. 中文词源 fungal ：真菌的 来自fungus, 真菌。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： fungal 词源， fungal 含义。
• funfair 英文词源 dodgem "A small electrically powered car with rubber bumpers all round, driven in an enclosure at a funfair with the aim of bumping into other such cars", 1920s: US proprietary name (as Dodg'em ), from the phrase dodge them . 中文词源 funfair ：游乐场 fun,娱乐。fair, 集市，广场。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： funfair 词源， funfair 含义。
• funeral 英文词源 funeral funeral: [14] Latin fūnus , a word of uncertain origin, meant ‘funeral’ and, probably secondarily, ‘corpse’. From it was derived the adjective fūnerālis , which English acquired via Old French in the 14th century. The noun funeral followed in the 16th century; it came from the same ultimate source, of course, but by a slightly different route – from medieval Latin
• fundi 英文词源 fundi "An expert in a particular area", Perhaps originally Rhodesian (Zimbabwean) English, from Nguni umfundi 'learner'. 中文词源 fundi ：行家 来自非洲津巴布韦语。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： fundi 词源， fundi 含义。
• funder 英文词源 confound confound: [13] Latin confundere literally meant ‘pour together’; it was a compound verb formed from the prefix com - ‘together’ and fundere ‘pour’ (source of English found ‘melt’ and fuse ). This sense was later extended figuratively to ‘mix up, fail to distinguish’, a meaning which passed via Old French confondre into English. Meanwhile, the Latin verb’
• fundamentalism 英文词源 fundamentalism (n.) 1920 in the religious sense; see fundamentalist + -ism . 中文词源 fundamentalism ：原教旨主义者 来自fundamental, 基础的，根本的。-ism, 主义，思想。用来指宗教上的原教旨主义者。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： fundamentalism 词源， fundamentalism 含义。
• fundamental 英文词源 fundamental (adj.) mid-15c., "primary, original, pertaining to a foundation," modeled on Late Latin fundamentalis "of the foundation," from Latin fundamentum "foundation" (see fundament ). In music (1732) it refers to the lowest note of a chord. Fundamentals (n.) "primary principles or rules" of anything is from 1630s. 中文词源 fundamental ：基础的，根本的 来自fund, 底部
• fund 英文词源 fund fund: [17] Latin fundus meant ‘bottom’. English originally acquired it via French as fond , and in the course of the 17th century re-latinized it to fund . The literal meaning ‘bottom’ was retained until the mid 18th century (‘a Glass-Bubble fix’d to the Fund of a Vessel’, British Apollo 1709), but gradually it gave way to the metaphorical ‘basic supply, particula
• functor 英文词源 functor "A function; an operator", 1930s: from function, on the pattern of words such as factor . 中文词源 functor ：函子 来自function, 功能。用做数学名词。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： functor 词源， functor 含义。
• functionary 英文词源 functionary (n.) "one who has a certain function, one who holds an office," 1791, from or patterned on French fonctionnaire , a word of the Revolution; from fonction (see function (n.)). As an adjective in English from 1822, "functional." Related: Functionarism . 中文词源 functionary ：公职人员 来自function, 功能。用于指公职人员。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词
• function 英文词源 function function: [16] The ultimate source of function is the Latin verb fungī ‘perform, discharge’, which may be related to Sanskrit bhunkte ‘he enjoys’. From its past participle, functus , was formed the abstract noun functiō ‘performance, activity’, which passed into English via Old French fonction . Other English derivatives of fungī include defunct and perfunctory
• funambulist 英文词源 funambulist funambulist: see funicular funambulist (n.) "tightrope-walker," 1793, coined from Latin funis "a rope, line, cord," + ambulare "to walk" (see amble (v.)). Earlier was funambulant (1660s), funambule (1690s from Latin funambulus , the classical name for a performer of this ancient type of public entertainment), and pseudo-Italian funambulo (c. 1600). Related: Funambulate ; f
• fun 英文词源 fun fun: [17] A fun was originally a ‘trick, hoax, practical joke’: ‘A Hackney Coachman he did hug her, and was not this a very good Fun?’ Thomas D’Urfey, Pills to Purge Melancholy 1719. It came from the contemporary verb fun ‘cheat, hoax’, which was presumably a variant of the Middle English verb fon ‘make a fool of’. This in turn was a verbal use of the noun fon ‘
• fumigate 英文词源 fumigate (v.) 1520s, "scent with perfumes," back-formation from fumigation . The older verb was simply fume (c. 1400). Meaning "apply smoke or fumes to," especially for cleansing purposes, is from 1781. Related: Fumigated ; fumigating ; fumigatory . 中文词源 fumigate ：烟熏 fume, 烟。-ig, 做，驱使，词源同agent. 即烟熏，常用做消毒。 该词的英语词源请访问
• fume 英文词源 fume fume: [14] Fume comes via Old French fum from Latin fūmus ‘smoke, steam’. This in turn went back to a prehistoric Indo-European * dhūmo -, which also produced Sanskrit dhūmás ‘smoke’ and Russian and Polish dym ‘smoke’. The word’s verbal use, ‘be very angry’, comes, like seethe , from the notion of being ‘hot or steaming with fury’. Derived words in Engli
• fumble 英文词源 fumble (v.) mid-15c., "handle clumsily," possibly from Old Norse falma "to fumble, grope." Similar words in Scandinavian and North Sea Germanic (Swedish fumla ; Dutch fommelen ) suggest onomatopoeia from a sound felt to indicate clumsiness (compare bumble , stumble , and obsolete English famble , fimble of roughly the same meaning). Intransitive sense "do or seek awkwardly" is from 15
• fulsome 英文词源 fulsome (adj.) mid-13c., "abundant, plentiful," Middle English compound of ful "full" (see full (adj.)) + -som "to a considerable degree" (see -some (1)). Perhaps a case of ironic understatement. Sense extended to "plump, well-fed" (mid-14c.), then "arousing disgust" (similar to the feeling of having over-eaten), late 14c. Via the sense of "causing nausea" it came to be used of langua
• fulminate 英文词源 fulminate fulminate: [15] Etymologically, fulminate means ‘strike with lightning’. It comes from Latin fulmināre , a derivative of fulmen ‘lightning’. In medieval Latin its literal meaning gave way to the metaphorical ‘pronounce an ecclesiastical censure on’, and this provided the semantic basis for its English derivative fulminate , although in the 17th and 18th centurie
• fulmar 英文词源 fulmar "A gull-sized grey and white seabird of the petrel family, with a stocky body and tubular nostrils", Late 17th century: from Hebridean Norn dialect, from Old Norse fúll 'stinking, foul' (because of its habit of regurgitating its stomach contents when disturbed) + már 'gull'. 中文词源 fulmar ：暴风鹱（海鸟） 来自古诺斯语，ful,臭的，词源同foul. mar, 海鸥
• fullness 英文词源 fullness (n.) mid-14c., "state of being sated or satisfied; wholeness, totality, completion" (translating Latin saturitas , plenitudo ), from full (adj.) + -ness . There might have been an Old English *fulnes but it has not survived in texts. Earlier was fullhead (c. 1300), and Middle English also had fulth "fullness, abundance" (early 14c.). Fullness of time (c. 1400) is Biblical, fr
• fuller 英文词源 fuller fuller: see foil fuller (n.) "one who fulls cloth," Old English fullere "fuller" (Mark ix:3), from Latin fullo "fuller" (see foil (v.)). The native word is walker . Fuller's earth (silicate of alumina) is recorded by 1520s; so called because it was used in cleansing cloth. 中文词源 fuller ：漂洗工 来自拉丁语fullo, 踩，漂洗，浣纱，词源同defile, foil. 该词
• full board 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random interval interval: [13] The val - of interval represents Latin vallum ‘rampart’ (source of English wall ) – so etymologically the word means ‘space between ramparts’. That was the original sense of its Latin ancestor, intervallum , but already in the classical period the metaphorical ‘gap in time, pause’ was develo
• full 英文词源 full full: [OE] Full and its verbal derivative fill go back ultimately to the Indo-European base * plē -, which also produced Latin plēnus ‘full’ (source of English plenary , plenty , and replenish , and of French plein and Italian pieno ‘full’) and English complete , deplete [19] (literally ‘unfill, empty’), implement , plebeian , plethora , plural , plus , replete [14]
• fulgent 英文词源 fulgent (adj.) "bright, dazzling," early 15c., from Latin fulgentem (nominative fulgens ) "shining, bright, dazzling," present participle of fulgere "to shine" (see fulminate ). Related: Fulgently . 中文词源 fulgent ：光辉的，灿烂的 来自PIE*bhel, 照明，照耀，词源同blaze, fulminate. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： fulgent 词源， fulgent 含
• fulfill 英文词源 fulfill (v.) Old English fullfyllan "fill up" (a room, a ship, etc.), "make full; take the place of (something)," from full (adj.), here perhaps with a sense of "completion" + fyllan (see fill (v.), which is ultimately from the same root). Used from mid-13c. in reference to prophecy (probably translating Latin implere , adimplere ). From mid-13c. as "do, perform; carry out, consummate
• fulcrum 英文词源 fulcrum (n.) in mechanics, "a prop, a support" (on which a lever turns), 1670s, from Latin fulcrum "bedpost, foot of a couch," from fulcire "to prop up, support" (see balk (n.)). 中文词源 fulcrum ：支轴 词源同balk,balcony. 原义为柱子，床柱。后用于物理学名词支轴。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： fulcrum 词源， fulcrum 含义。