英语词源

• feast 英文词源 feast feast: [13] The notion of ‘eating’ is a secondary semantic development for feast , whose underlying meaning (as may be guessed from the related festival [14] and festivity [14]) has more to do with joyousness than with the appeasement of hunger. Its ultimate source is the Latin adjective festus , which meant ‘joyful, merry’. This was used as a plural noun, festa , meanin
• feasible 英文词源 feasible feasible: [15] Something that is feasible is literally something ‘that can be done’. The word was borrowed from French faisable , a derivative of the stem of the verb faire ‘do, make’. This is the French descendant of Latin facere , which has contributed so voluminously to English vocabulary, from fact to difficult . = difficult , fact , factory , fashion , feat , fea
• fear 英文词源 fear fear: [OE] ‘Being frightened’ seems to be a comparatively recent development in the semantic history of the word fear . In Old English times the verb meant ‘be afraid’, but the noun meant ‘sudden terrible event, danger’, and it did not develop its modern sense – possibly under the influence of the verb – until the 13th century (the Old English nouns for ‘fear’
• faze 英文词源 faze faze: [19] Faze ‘disconcert’ is now mainly restricted to American English, but in fact it has an extensive prehistory stretching back to Anglo-Saxon times. It is a variant of feeze , a verb meaning ‘drive away’ or ‘alarm’ as well as ‘disconcert’ which survives in American English and in some British dialects, and which comes from Old English fēsian ‘drive away’
• fax 英文词源 fax fax: [20] Fax is a sleeper of a word. The technology of facsimile telegraphy, by which a document is scanned and its image transmitted via a telegraphic link, had been around since the 1870s, but the word fax was not invented for it (in the USA, by the simple expedient of removing the end of facsimile ) until the 1940s. Even then, faxes were not widely known about outside the worl
• fawn 英文词源 fawn fawn: Fawn ‘young deer’ [14] and fawn ‘grovel’ [13] are two distinct words. The latter did not always have the negative associations of ‘servility’ which it usually carries today. Originally it simply referred to dogs showing they were happy – by wagging their tails, for instance. It was a derivative of Old English fægen ‘happy’, an adjective of Germanic origin
• favoritism 英文词源 favoritism (n.) 1763, from favorite + -ism . 中文词源 favoritism ：偏袒 来自favor, 偏向，偏好。词义引申为偏袒。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： favoritism 词源， favoritism 含义。
• favorite 英文词源 favorite (n.) "person or thing regarded with especial liking," 1580s, from Middle French favorit , perhaps via Italian favorito , noun use of past participle of favorire , from favore , from Latin favorem "inclination, partiality, support" (see favor (n.)). Especially, "a person who gains dominant influence over a superior" (1590s). In racing, attested from 1813. As an adjective, by 1
• favor 英文词源 favor (n.) c. 1300, "attractiveness, beauty, charm" (archaic), from Old French favor "a favor; approval, praise; applause; partiality" (13c., Modern French faveur ), from Latin favorem (nominative favor ) "good will, inclination, partiality, support," coined by Cicero from stem of favere "to show kindness to," from PIE *ghow-e- "to honor, revere, worship" (cognate: Old Norse ga "to he
• favela 英文词源 favela "A Brazilian shack or shanty town; a slum", Portuguese.Moreshanty from early 19th century:The sea shanty, the song to which sailors hauled ropes, probably comes from French chantez! , an order to ‘sing!’ It is recorded from the mid 19th century. A slightly earlier shanty appeared in North America for a small, crudely built shack and may come from Canadian French chantier ‘
• fava bean 英文词源 fava bean "North American term for broad bean", Italian fava , from Latin faba 'bean'. 中文词源 fava bean ：蚕豆 fava, 豆子，词源同bean. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： fava bean 词源， fava bean 含义。
• faux pas 英文词源 faux pas (n.) "breech of good manners, any act that compromises one's reputation," 1670s, French, literally "false step." See false and pace (n.). 中文词源 faux pas ：失态 来自法语，即false pace. 引申词义说错话，失言。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： faux pas 词源， faux pas 含义。
• Fauvism 英文词源 fauvism fauvism: see fallow 中文词源 Fauvism ：野兽主义 来自法语fauve, 野兽，词源同fallow, 黄棕色的，灰白色的，代指野兽。来自20世纪初期流行于法国巴黎的一种抽象的，无意义，混乱的画风艺术，被当时的艺术评论家批判为奇葩，野兽状的。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： Fauvism 词源，
• Fauve 英文词源 fallow fallow: English has two words fallow , both of considerable antiquity. Fallow ‘uncultivated’ [OE] originally meant ‘ploughed land’. Its present-day adjectival meaning ‘ploughed but not sown’ or, more broadly, just ‘uncultivated’, developed in the 15th century. Fallow ‘pale yellowish-brown’ [OE] (now used only in fallow deer ) comes via Germanic * falwaz from
• faute de mieux 英文词源 faute de mieux "For want of a better alternative", French. 中文词源 faute de mieux ：因无更好的 来自法语。faute, 有缺陷的，词源同fault. mieux, 更好的，词源同meliorate,字母l弱化为u. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： faute de mieux 词源， faute de mieux 含义。
• Faustian 英文词源 Faustian (adj.) 1870, in reference to Johann Faust (c. 1485-1541), German wandering astrologer and wizard, who was reputed to have sold his soul to the Devil. Fantastic tales of his life were told as early as the late 16c., and he was the hero of dramas by Marlowe and Goethe. The Latinized form of his name, faustus , means "of favorable omen." 中文词源 Faustian ：浮士德式的交
• faun 英文词源 faun (n.) "rustic woodland spirit or demigod part human, part goat," late 14c., from Latin Faunus , the name of a god of the countryside, worshipped especially by farmers and shepherds, equivalent of Greek Pan . The faunalia were held in his honor. Formerly somewhat assimilated to satyrs, but they have diverged again lately. The faun is now regarded rather as the type of unsophisticat
• fault 英文词源 fault fault: [13] Like fail , fallacy , fallible , and false , fault comes ultimately from Latin fallere ‘deceive, fail’. Its past participle formed the basis of a Vulgar Latin noun * fallita ‘failing, falling short’, which passed into English via Old French faute in the sense ‘lack, deficiency’. The notion of ‘moral culpability’ does not seem to have become incorporat
• faucet 英文词源 faucet (n.) c. 1400, from Old French fausset (14c.) "breach, spigot, stopper, peg (of a barrel)," which is of unknown origin; perhaps diminutive of Latin faux , fauces "upper part of the throat, pharynx, gullet." Not in Watkins, but Barnhart, Gamillscheg, and others suggest the Old French word is from fausser "to damage, break into," from Late Latin falsare (see false ). Spigot and fa
• fauces 英文词源 fauces (n.) "throat, gullet," 1540s, from Latin fauces "throat, gullet." Related: Faucal ; faucial . 中文词源 fauces ：咽喉，喉咙 来自拉丁语fauces. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： fauces 词源， fauces 含义。
• fatwa 英文词源 fatwa (n.) 1620s, from Arabic fetwa "a decision given by a mufti," related to fata "to instruct by a legal decision." Popularized in English 1989 when Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran issued a ruling sentencing author Salman Rushdie to death for publishing "The Satanic Verses" (1988). This was lifted 1998. 中文词源 fatwa ：法特瓦（伊斯兰法的裁决和敕令） 来自阿拉伯语，
• fatuous 英文词源 fatuous fatuous: see fade fatuous (adj.) "foolish, stupid," 1530s, from Latin fatuus "foolish, insipid, silly;" which is of uncertain origin. Buck suggests originally "stricken" in the head. But de Vaan says from Proto-Italic *fatowo- "of speech," from the PIE root of fame (n.). [I]f we connect the fact that Fatuus is said to be an alternative name for Faunus , and that he predicted t
• fattism 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random yes yes: [OE] Yes is descended from Old English gese . It is thought that this was a compound formed from gēa ‘yes’ (ancestor of archaic English yea and related to German and Dutch ja ‘yes’) and sīe , the third-person present singular subjunctive of be , and that it therefore originally meant literally ‘yes, may it b
• fatten 英文词源 fatten (v.) 1550s, "to make fat," from fat + -en (1). Intransitive sense from 1630s. Related: Fattened ; fattener . The earlier verb was simply fat (v.). 中文词源 fatten ：育胖 来自fat, 肥胖的。-en，使。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： fatten 词源， fatten 含义。
• fatso 英文词源 Fatso nickname for a fat person, by 1944, elaboration of Fats , from fat (adj.). 中文词源 fatso ：肥胖的 俚语。来自fat, 肥胖的。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： fatso 词源， fatso 含义。
• fatigue 英文词源 fatigue fatigue: [17] In English a relatively formal term, fatigue goes back ultimately to a Latin expression roughly equivalent to the English notion of having ‘had it up to here’. It was borrowed from French fatiguer , a descendant of Latin fatigāre ‘tire’. This appears to have been related to the adverb affatim ‘sufficiently’, suggesting that underlying fatigāre was t
• fathom 英文词源 fathom fathom: [OE] The underlying etymological meaning of fathom appears to be ‘stretching out, spreading’. It probably comes ultimately from the Indo-European base * pot -, * pet -, which also produced Latin patēre ‘be open’ (source of English patent ) and Greek pétalos ‘outspread’ (source of English petal ). Its Germanic descendant was * fath -, which produced the nou
• father-in-law 英文词源 father-in-law (n.) late 14c., from father (n.) + in-law . 中文词源 father-in-law ：岳父 即法律意义上的父亲。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： father-in-law 词源， father-in-law 含义。
• father 英文词源 father father: [OE] Father is the English representative of a general Indo-European family of words for ‘male parent’. Its ancestor is Indo-European p ə tér , which probably originated (like the words for ‘mother’, and indeed like English daddy and papa and Welsh tad ‘father’) in prearticulate syllables interpreted by proud parents as words. Its multifarious descendants
• fateful 英文词源 fateful (adj.) 1710s, "prophetic," from fate (n.) + -ful . Meaning "of momentous consequences" is from c. 1800. Related: Fatefully . Sometimes used by 18c.-19c. poets as if it meant "having the power to kill," which usually belongs to fatal . The broad and diverging senses of fate (n.) also yielded adjectives fated "doomed," also "set aside by fate;" fatiferous "deadly, mortal (1650s)
• fate 英文词源 fate fate: [14] Etymologically, fate is ‘that which is spoken’ – that is, by the gods. Like so many other English words, from fable to profess , it goes back ultimately to the Indo-European base * bha - ‘speak’. Its immediate source was Italian fato , a descendant of Latin fātum , which was formed from the past participle of the verb fārī ‘speak’. That which the gods
• fatalism 英文词源 fatalism (n.) 1670s as a philosophical doctrine that all things are determined by fate, from fatal + -ism . Meaning "disposition to accept all conditions and events as inevitable" is from 1734. 中文词源 fatalism ：宿命论 来自fate, 命运。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： fatalism 词源， fatalism 含义。
• fatal 英文词源 fatal (adj.) late 14c., "decreed by fate," also "fraught with fate," from Middle French fatal (14c.) and directly from Latin fatalis "ordained by fate, decreed, destined; destructive, deadly," from fatum (see fate (n.)); sense of "causing or attended with death" in English is from early 15c. Meaning "concerned with or dealing with destiny" is from mid-15c. 中文词源 fatal ：致命的
• fat 英文词源 fat fat: [OE] Fat is one of a large Indo-European family of words denoting the substance ‘fat’ or its consequences in terms of obesity – the probably related Greek pímelē and Latin pinguis , for instance, signified respectively ‘lard’ and ‘fat’. The Germanic members of the family, which include German fett , Dutch vet , and Swedish fet as well as English fat , go back
• fastness 英文词源 fastness (n.) "a place not easily forced, a stronghold," late Old English fæstnes "firmness, strongness, massiveness, stability; the firmament," from fast (adj.) in its older sense of "firm, fixed in place" + -ness . 中文词源 fastness ：要塞 来自fast, 固定，坚固。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： fastness 词源， fastness 含义。
• fastidious 英文词源 fastidious (adj.) mid-15c., "full of pride," from Latin fastidiosus "disdainful, squeamish, exacting," from fastidium "loathing, squeamishness; dislike, aversion; excessive nicety," which is of uncertain origin; perhaps from *fastu-taidiom, a compound of fastus "contempt, arrogance, pride," and taedium "aversion, disgust." Fastus is possibly from PIE *bhars- (1) "projection, bristle,
• fasten 英文词源 fasten fasten: [OE] Etymologically, fasten means ‘make fast’; it goes back ultimately to Germanic * fastuz , source of English fast . From this was derived a verb * fastinōjan , which passed into Old English as fæstnian . To begin with this seems only to have been used in the metaphorical sense ‘settle, establish’. The more concrete ‘attach’ is not recorded until the 12t
• fast breeder 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random stalwart stalwart: [14] The ancestor of stalwart was Old English stǣlwierthe . The second half of this compound adjective denoted ‘worth, worthy’, but the precise significance of the first element is not clear. It represents Old English stǣl ‘place’, perhaps used here in the metaphorical sense ‘stead’, so that etym
• fast 英文词源 fast fast: [OE] Widely dissimilar as they now seem, fast ‘quick’ and fast ‘abstain from food’ in fact come from the same ultimate source. This was Germanic * fastuz , which denoted ‘firm’. That underlying sense persists in various contexts, such as ‘hold fast’ and ‘fast friend’. The verbal application to ‘eating no food’ originated in the notion of ‘holding f
• fashionista 英文词源 fashionista (n.) by 1996, from fashion + -ista (see -ist ). In the same sense were fashionist ("obsequious follower of modes and fashions," 1610s, alive as late as 1850); fashion-monger (1590s); fashion-fly (1868). 中文词源 fashionista ：时装设计师 来自fashion, 时尚，时装。-ista, 西班牙语后缀，人。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： fashi
• fashion 英文词源 fashion fashion: [13] The underlying notion of fashion is of ‘making’, ‘forming’, or ‘shaping’. The main modern sense of the word developed via ‘particular shape or style’, ‘way, manner’, and ‘prevailing or current manner’. English acquired it via Anglo-Norman fasun from Latin factiō , a derivative of facere ‘make, do’ (which has contributed an enormous ra
• fascist 英文词源 fascist fascist: [20] The early 20th-century Italian fascisti , under Benito Mussolini, took their name from Italian fascio , literally ‘bundle’ but figuratively ‘group, association’. Its source was Latin fascis ‘bundle’, from whose diminutive form fasciculus English gets fascicle [15]. Closely related was Latin fascia ‘band, bandage, strip’, borrowed by English in the
• fascism 英文词源 fascism (n.) 1922, originally used in English in 1920 in its Italian form fascismo (see fascist ). Applied to similar groups in Germany from 1923; applied to everyone since the Internet. A form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of c
• fascia 英文词源 fascia (n.) 1560s, from Latin fascia "a band, bandage, swathe, ribbon," derivative of fascis "bundle" (see fasces ). In English, originally in architecture; anatomical use is from 1788. Also used in botany, music, astronomy. Related: Fascial ; fasciation . 中文词源 fascia ：绷带，筋膜，招牌，封檐板 来自拉丁语fascis, 带子，绷带，词源同basket. 最初用于建
• farthingale 英文词源 farthingale (n.) contrivance for extending the skirts of women's dresses, formerly also vardingale , etc., 1550s, from Middle French verdugale , from Spanish verdugado "hooped, hooped skirt," from verdugo "rod, stick, young shoot of a tree," from verde "green," from Latin viridis (see verdure ). Originally made with cane hoops or rods. The form perhaps influenced by martingale . 中文词
• farthing 英文词源 farthing farthing: [OE] Farthing has a long history as an English coin-name, going back to the 10th century, when it was used in translations of the Bible to render Latin quadrans , a quarter of a denarius. It was introduced into English currency (as a silver coin equal to a quarter of a penny) in the reign of Edward I; in Charles Il’s time copper was used for it, and from 1860 unti
• farthest 英文词源 farthest (adj.) "most distant or remote," late 14c., superlative of far . 中文词源 farthest ：最远 用做farther的最高级。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： farthest 词源， farthest 含义。
• farther 英文词源 farther (adj.) late 14c., "front;" variant of further (adj.). From 1510s as "additional;" 1560s as "more remote." farther (adv.) 15c. alteration of Middle English ferther (c. 1300), a variant of further (adv.). There is no historical basis for the notion that farther is of physical distance and further of degree or quality. 中文词源 farther ：更远 用做far的比较级。一种说
• fart 英文词源 fart fart: [OE] Fart is a widespread and ancient word in the Indo-European languages, and goes back to a prehistoric Indo-European * perd -, which may originally have been an imitation of the sound of a fart. Its other offspring besides fart include German farzen and furzen , Swedish fjärta , Danish fjerte , Russian perdet’ , Polish pierdzieć , Greek pordízō , and Welsh rhechain
• farrow 英文词源 farrow farrow: [OE] Farrow , nowadays used mainly as a verb for ‘give birth to a litter of pigs’, originally meant ‘young pig’. Its ultimate source was Indo- European * porkos (from which English also gets pork ). The Germanic descendant of this was * farkhaz , which produced German ferkel ‘young pig’ and Dutch varken ‘pig’ (as in aardvark , literally ‘earth-pig’,
• farrier 英文词源 farrier farrier: [16] Etymologically, a farrier is a ‘worker in iron’. The word comes via Old French ferrier from Latin ferrārius , a derivative of ferum . This meant literally ‘iron’ (it is the source of English ferrous [19], and may well have been borrowed from a Semitic source), and already in classical times was being applied metaphorically to implements made from iron, p
• farrago 英文词源 farrago farrago: [17] The notion of a farrago being a ‘heterogeneous mixture’ comes originally from the mixture of various grains for animal feed. Latin farrāgo was a derivative of far ‘corn’ (source of English farinaceous [17] and related to barley and barn ), and was extended metaphorically to ‘medley, hotch-potch’ in classical times. = barley , barn , farinaceous farra
• farm 英文词源 farm farm: [13] The specifically agricultural connotations of farm are surprisingly recent. The word comes ultimately from Latin firmāre ‘make firm, fix’, which produced a medieval Latin derived noun firma , denoting ‘fixed payment’. English acquired the word via Old French ferme , and originally used it in just this sense (‘I will each of them all have 4d to drink when the
• farewell 英文词源 farewell (interj.) expression at parting, late 14c., from Middle English faren wel , verbal phrase attested by c. 1200 (see fare (v.) + well (adv.)); usually said to the departing person, who replied with good-bye . As a noun, "a good-bye, a leave-taking," by early 15c. Expression to a fare-thee-well "to the last degree" is by 1884, American English. 中文词源 farewell ：告别 fa
• fare 英文词源 fare fare: [OE] Both the verb fare (now only an archaism) and the noun go back ultimately to the Indo-European base * por - ‘going, passage’, which has produced a wide range of other English words, including emporium , ferry , fiord , ford , importune , opportunity , pore , and port . Its Germanic descendant was * fer - ‘go’, which produced in Old English the nouns fær and fa
• farcical 英文词源 farcical (adj.) 1716, from farce + -ical , perhaps on the model of comical . Related: Farcically . 中文词源 farcical ：闹剧的 来自farce, 闹剧。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： farcical 词源， farcical 含义。
• Farad 英文词源 farad (n.) unit of electric capacity, suggested 1861, first used 1868, named for English physicist Michael Faraday (1791-1867). Related: Faradic . 中文词源 Farad ：法拉（电容单位） 来自18世纪英国物理学家Michael Faraday, 以表达对他的敬意。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： Farad 词源， Farad 含义。
• far 英文词源 far far: [OE] Far is a word of ancient ancestry. It goes back to Indo-European * per -, which also produced Greek pérā ‘beyond, further’ and Sanskrit paras ‘beyond’. The Germanic descendant of the Indo-European form was * fer -, whose comparative form * ferrō ‘further’ passed into Old English as feorr , having lost its comparative connotations and come to mean simply ‘
• fanzine 英文词源 fanzine (n.) 1949, from fan (n.2) + suffix abstracted from magazine . 中文词源 fanzine ：爱好者杂志 来自fan和magazine的合成词。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： fanzine 词源， fanzine 含义。
• fantastic 英文词源 fantastic (adj.) late 14c., "existing only in imagination," from Middle French fantastique (14c.), from Medieval Latin fantasticus , from Late Latin phantasticus "imaginary," from Greek phantastikos "able to imagine," from phantazein "make visible" (middle voice phantazesthai "picture to oneself"); see phantasm . Trivial sense of "wonderful, marvelous" recorded by 1938. Old French had
• fantasize 英文词源 fantasize (v.) 1926, from fantasy + -ize . Related: Fantasized ; fantasizing . An earlier verb was fantasticate (c. 1600). 中文词源 fantasize ：幻想 来自fantasy, 幻想。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： fantasize 词源， fantasize 含义。
• fantasy 英文词源 fantasy fantasy: see fancy fantasy (n.) early 14c., "illusory appearance," from Old French fantaisie , phantasie "vision, imagination" (14c.), from Latin phantasia , from Greek phantasia "power of imagination; appearance, image, perception," from phantazesthai "picture to oneself," from phantos "visible," from phainesthai "appear," in late Greek "to imagine, have visions," related to
• fanny 英文词源 fanny (n.) "buttocks," 1920, American English, from earlier British meaning "vulva" (1879), perhaps from the name of John Cleland's heroine in the scandalous novel "Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure" (1748). The fem. proper name is a diminutive of Frances . The genital sense is still the primary one outside U.S., but is not current in American English, a difference which ca
• fanlight 英文词源 fan fan: English has two words fan . By far the older [OE] came from Latin vannus ; it originally meant ‘device for winnowing grain’, and its now familiar sense ‘handheld device for creating a cooling draught’ did not develop until the 16th century. Its characteristic semicircular shape gave rise to the term fanlight [19] (since applied to a rectangular window above a door). F
• fang 英文词源 fang fang: [11] Fang originally meant ‘prey, spoils’ – a sense which survived well into the 18th century (‘Snap went the sheers, then in a wink, The fang was stow’d behind a bink [bench]’, Morrison, Poems 1790). It was related to a verb fang ‘take, capture’ which was very common in the Old and Middle English period, and which, like its surviving cousins German fangen ,
• fanfare 英文词源 fanfare (n.) c. 1600, "a flourish sounded on a trumpet or bugle," from French fanfare "a sounding of trumpets" (16c.), from fanfarer "blow a fanfare" (16c.), perhaps echoic, or perhaps borrowed (with Spanish fanfarron "braggart," and Italian fanfano "babbler") from Arabic farfar "chatterer," of imitative origin. French fanfaron also came into English 1670s with a sense "boastful." 中文
• fandango 英文词源 fandango (n.) mid-18c., lively Spanish dance, the word of unknown etymology [OED says "alleged to be of negro origin"], of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to fado (Watkins traces both to Latin fari "to speak"); fado is lovely but not lively, so perhaps the link, if any, is thematic. By extension in American English, "any noisy entertainment." 中文词源 fandango ：凡丹戈舞（节
• fancy 英文词源 fancy fancy: [15] Ultimately, fancy is the same word as fantasy [15], from which it emerged by a process of contraction and gradually became differentiated in meaning. Both go back originally to the Greek verb phaínein ‘show’ (source also of English diaphanous and phenomenon ). From it was derived phantázein ‘make visible’, which produced the noun phantasíā ‘appearance,
• fanciable 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random segment segment: see section 中文词源 fanciable ：性感的 来自fancy, 幻想，想象。形容性感的女人。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： fanciable 词源， fanciable 含义。
• fan 英文词源 fan fan: English has two words fan . By far the older [OE] came from Latin vannus ; it originally meant ‘device for winnowing grain’, and its now familiar sense ‘handheld device for creating a cooling draught’ did not develop until the 16th century. Its characteristic semicircular shape gave rise to the term fanlight [19] (since applied to a rectangular window above a door). F
• famous 英文词源 famous (adj.) late 14c., "celebrated in public report, renowned, well-known" also "notorious, infamous," from Anglo-French famous , Old French fameus (Modern French fameux ), from Latin famosus "much talked of, renowned," often "infamous, notorious, of ill repute," from fama (see fame (n.)). A native word for this was Old English namcuð , literally "name-known." Catch phrase famous l
• famished 英文词源 famished "Extremely hungry", Late Middle English: past participle of the verb famish , from Middle English fame 'starve', from Old French afamer , based on Latin fames 'hunger'. 中文词源 famished ：饥饿的 来自famine, 饥饿，饥荒。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： famished 词源， famished 含义。
• famine 英文词源 famine famine: [14] Both famine and famish [14] come ultimately from Latin famēs ‘hunger’. Its Vulgar Latin derivative * faminis produced Old French famine , source of English famine . Famish has come via a more circuitous route: another Vulgar Latin derivative of famēs was * affamāre , a compound verb formed with the prefix ad - ‘towards’; in Old French this became afamer
• family 英文词源 family family: [15] Latin famulus , a word of unknown origin, meant ‘servant’. From it was derived familia , a collective term for all the domestic servants of a household. Only rarely was it used for the entire household, including the servants’ employers too, and when it first entered English it was with the original Latin sense (which indeed survived until the late 18th centu
• familiar 英文词源 familiar familiar: [14] Familiar originally meant simply ‘of the family’ (it came, partly via Old French familier , from Latin familiāris ). Its usual use in this sense was in phrases such as familiar enemy and familiar foe , denoting a treacherous enemy from within one’s own family or household. It gradually broadened out semantically via ‘intimately associated’ (preserved
• fame 英文词源 fame fame: [13] Etymologically, fame is ‘being talked about’. The word comes via Old French fame from Latin fāma ‘talk, reputation’. This in turn goes back ultimately to the Indo-European base * bha - ‘speak’, which also produced English confess , fable , fate , ineffable , etc. The derivatives famous and infamous are both 14thcentury acquisitions. = confess , fable , fai
• falter 英文词源 falter (v.) late 14c., "to stagger, totter," of unknown origin, possibly from a Scandinavian source (compare Old Norse faltrask "be burdened, hesitate, be troubled"), or else a frequentative of Middle English falden "to fold," influenced by fault (but OED rejects any direct connection to that word). Of the tongue, "to stammer," mid-15c. Related: Faltered ; faltering . 中文词源 fal
• Falstaffian 英文词源 Falstaffian (adj.) "fat, humorous, jovial," 1782, from Shakespeare's character. 中文词源 Falstaffian ：福斯塔夫式的 来自莎士比亚戏剧《亨利四世》中人物，一个肥胖的幽默的骑士。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： Falstaffian 词源， Falstaffian 含义。
• falsify 英文词源 falsify (v.) mid-15c., "to prove false," from Middle French falsifier (15c.), from Late Latin falsificare "make false, corrupt," from Latin falsus "erroneous, mistaken" (see false ). Meaning "to make false" is from c. 1500. Earlier verb was simply falsen (c. 1200). Related: Falsified ; falsifying . 中文词源 falsify ：篡改，证伪 false, 虚假的。-fy, 使。原指证明有假，
• falsetto 英文词源 falsetto (n.) "artificially high voice," 1774, from Italian falsetto , diminutive of falso "false," from Latin falsus (see false ). Earlier in an Englished form as falset (1707). One who sings thus is a falsettist . 中文词源 falsetto ：假音 来自false, 虚假的。用做音乐名词。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： falsetto 词源， falsetto 含义。
• false 英文词源 false false: [OE] False appears originally to have been borrowed directly from Latin falsus at the end of the 10th century, but without making much of an impression. It was only in the 12th century that it began being used with any frequency, probably as the result of an extra impetus given by reborrowing it via Old French fals . The word’s ultimate source was the Latin verb fallere
• fallow deer 英文词源 fallow fallow: English has two words fallow , both of considerable antiquity. Fallow ‘uncultivated’ [OE] originally meant ‘ploughed land’. Its present-day adjectival meaning ‘ploughed but not sown’ or, more broadly, just ‘uncultivated’, developed in the 15th century. Fallow ‘pale yellowish-brown’ [OE] (now used only in fallow deer ) comes via Germanic * falwaz from
• fallow 英文词源 fallow fallow: English has two words fallow , both of considerable antiquity. Fallow ‘uncultivated’ [OE] originally meant ‘ploughed land’. Its present-day adjectival meaning ‘ploughed but not sown’ or, more broadly, just ‘uncultivated’, developed in the 15th century. Fallow ‘pale yellowish-brown’ [OE] (now used only in fallow deer ) comes via Germanic * falwaz from
• fallout 英文词源 fallout (n.) also fall-out , "radioactive particles," 1950, from fall (v.) + out (adv.). 中文词源 fallout ：核爆炸后放射性余波 来自短语fall out, 用于核物理名词。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： fallout 词源， fallout 含义。
• Fallopian tube 英文词源 fallopian tube "(In a female mammal) either of a pair of tubes along which eggs travel from the ovaries to the uterus", Early 18th century: from Fallopius , Latinized form of the name of Gabriello Fallopio (1523–62), the Italian anatomist who first described them. 中文词源 Fallopian tube ：输卵管 来自其发现者16世纪意大利解剖学家Gabriello Fallopio. 该词的英语
• fallible 英文词源 fallible (adj.) early 15c., from Medieval Latin fallibilis "liable to err, deceitful," literally "that can be deceived," from Latin fallere "deceive" (see fail (v.)). 中文词源 fallible ：犯错误的 来自fallacy, 错误，谬误。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： fallible 词源， fallible 含义。 fallible ：易犯错误的；难免有错误的   词根
• fallacy 英文词源 fallacy fallacy: see fail fallacy (n.) late 15c., "deception, false statement," from Latin fallacia "deception, deceit, trick, artifice," noun of quality from fallax (genitive fallacis ) "deceptive," from fallere "deceive" (see fail (v.)). Specific sense in logic, "false syllogism, invalid argumentation," dates from 1550s. An earlier form was fallace (c. 1300), from Old French fallace
• fallacious 英文词源 fallacious (adj.) c. 1500, from fallacy (Latin fallacia ) + -ous . Related: Fallaciously ; fallaciousness . 中文词源 fallacious ：谬误的 来自fallacy, 谬误。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： fallacious 词源， fallacious 含义。 fallacious ：谬误的；欺骗的；靠不住的；不合逻辑的   词根词缀： -fall-欺骗,错误 + -acious形容
• fall 英文词源 fall fall: [OE] The verb fall comes from prehistoric Germanic * fallan , which also produced German fallen , Dutch vallen , and Swedish falla . The noun is partly a survival of Old English feall , partly a borrowing from the related Old Norse fall , but probably mostly a new formation based on the verb. The sense ‘autumn’, now restricted to American English, originated in the 16th
• falconry 英文词源 falconry (n.) 1570s, from French fauconnerie , from faucon (see falcon ). 中文词源 falconry ：鹰猎 来自falcon, 猎鹰。-ry,名词后缀。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： falconry 词源， falconry 含义。