英语词源

• deadpan 英文词源 deadpan 1928, from dead (adj.) + pan (n.) in slang sense of "face." 中文词源 deadpan ：面无表情的 dead, 死的。pan, 俚语义，脸。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： deadpan 词源， deadpan 含义。
• deadbeat 英文词源 deadbeat (n.) "worthless sponging idler," 1863, American English slang, perhaps originally Civil War slang, from dead (adj.) + beat . Earlier used colloquially as an adjectival expression to mean "completely beaten" (1821), and perhaps the base notion is of "worn out, good for nothing." It is noted in a British source from 1861 as a term for "a pensioner." In England "dead beat" means
• dead 英文词源 dead dead: [OE] Dead is part of a Germanic family of adjectives (including also German tot , Dutch dood , Swedish död , and Gothic dauths ) which come from a prehistoric Germanic adjective * dauthaz . This in turn came from an earlier * dhautós , which was the past participle of the verb base that eventually produced English die (thus etymologically dead is in effect a precursor of
• deactivate 英文词源 deactivate (v.) 1904, from de- + activate . Related: Deactivated ; deactivating ; deactivation . 中文词源 deactivate ：使停止工作 de-, 离开。act, 做。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： deactivate 词源， deactivate 含义。
• deacon 英文词源 deacon (n.) Old English deacon , diacon , from Late Latin diaconus , from Greek diakonos "servant of the church, religious official," literally "servant," from dia- "thoroughly" + PIE *kon-o- , from root *ken- (1) "to set oneself in motion." 中文词源 deacon ：执事，会吏 来自希腊语diakonos, 仆人，教会执事。来自dia-, 穿过，-con, 移动，词源同cite, cinema
• dazzle 英文词源 dazzle (v.) late 15c., frequentative of Middle English dasen (see daze (v.)). Originally intransitive; the transitive sense is from 1530s. Related: Dazzled ; dazzling . 中文词源 dazzle ：目眩 来自daze, 发晕。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： dazzle 词源， dazzle 含义。 dazzle ：使炫目，耀眼；使惊奇，使赞叹不已，使倾倒 daze的反
• daze 英文词源 daze (v.) early 14c., dasen , perhaps from Old Norse *dasa (compare dasask "to become weary," with reflexive suffix -sk ). Or perhaps from Middle Dutch dasen "act silly." Perhaps originally "to make weary with cold," which is the sense of Icelandic dasask (from the Old Norse word). Related: Dazed . daze (n.) "a dazed condition," 1825, from daze (v.). 中文词源 daze ：迷茫，发晕
• day 英文词源 day day: [OE] Day and its Germanic relatives (German tag , Dutch, Danish, and Swedish dag , and Gothic dags ) come from a prehistoric Germanic * dagaz . It seems likely that the ultimate source of this was the Indo-European base * dhegh -, which also produced Sanskrit dah - ‘burn’ and nidāgha - ‘heat, summer’, and that the underlying etymological meaning of day is thus ‘tim
• dawn 英文词源 dawn dawn: [15] Dawn was originally formed from day . The Old English word dæg ‘day’ formed the basis of dagung , literally ‘daying’, a word coined to designate the emergence of day from night. In Middle English this became daiing or dawyng , which in the 13th to 14th centuries evolved to dai(e)ning or dawenyng , on the model of some such Scandinavian form as Old Swedish dagh
• dawdle 英文词源 dawdle (v.) 1650s, perhaps a variant of daddle "to walk unsteadily." Perhaps influenced by daw , because the bird was regarded as sluggish and silly. Not in general use until c. 1775. Related: Dawdled ; dawdling . 中文词源 dawdle ：拖延 来自古英语方言daddle, 游荡，比较doodle, doddle, totter, toddle. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： dawdle 词源，
• dauphin 英文词源 dauphin dauphin: [15] The eldest sons of the French king were from 1349–1830 designated by a title which is essentially the same word as English dolphin . It was originally applied to the lords of the Viennois, an area in the southeast of France, whose coat of arms incorporated three dolphins. After the Viennois province of Dauphiné was sold by Charles of Valois to the French crown
• dauntless 英文词源 dauntless (adj.) 1590s, from daunt + -less . Related: Dauntlessly . 中文词源 dauntless ：无畏的 daunt, 畏惧。-less, 不，没有。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： dauntless 词源， dauntless 含义。
• daunt 英文词源 daunt daunt: see tame daunt (v.) c. 1300, "to vanquish," from Old French danter , variant of donter (12c., Modern French dompter ) "be afraid of, fear, doubt; control, restrain," from Latin domitare , frequentative of domare "to tame" (see tame (v.)). Sense of "to intimidate" is from late 15c. Related: Daunted ; daunting . 中文词源 daunt ：畏惧 来自拉丁语domitare, 统治，驯
• daughter 英文词源 daughter daughter: [OE] Daughter is an ancient word which goes back to Indo-European * dhugh ə tēr . Apart from Latin and the Romance languages (with filia and its descendants) and Celtic (Welsh has merch ), all the Indo-European languages have inherited this form: Greek had thugátēr , Armenian dustr , Old Slavic dusti (whence Russian doch’ ), and Sanskrit duhitar -. The prehist
• daub 英文词源 daub daub: [14] The ultimate source of daub , Latin dēalbāre , meant literally ‘whiten’. It was derived from the adjective albus ‘white’, ancestor of English albino and album . It developed the specific meaning ‘cover with some white substance, such as whitewash or plaster’, and by the time it reached English, via Old French dauber , it referred to the applying of a coat
• dative 英文词源 dative (adj.) mid-15c., from Latin dativus "pertaining to giving," from datus "given" (see date (n.1)); in grammatical use from Greek dotike (ptosis) "dative (case)," from dotikos "of giving nature," from dotos "given," from PIE root *do- "to give," from the same PIE root as the Latin word. In law, "that may be disposed of at pleasure," from 1530s. Typically the case of the indirect o
• date 英文词源 date date: Date ‘time of an event’ and date ‘fruit’ are distinct words in English, and perhaps unexpectedly the latter [13] entered the language a century before the former. It came via Old French date and Latin dactylus from Greek dáktulos , which originally meant literally ‘finger’ or ‘toe’. The term was originally applied from the supposed resemblance of a date to
• databank 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random margin margin: [14] Margin comes from margin -, the stem form of Latin margō ‘margin’. This appears to go back to the same ultimate source as English mark (which originally meant ‘boundary’). The now archaic synonym marge [15] was borrowed from the Latin word’s French descendant. = march , mark 中文词源 databank ：
• data 英文词源 data (n.) 1640s, plural of datum , from Latin datum "(thing) given," neuter past participle of dare "to give" (see date (n.1)). Meaning "transmittable and storable computer information" first recorded 1946. Data processing is from 1954. 中文词源 data ：数据 来自拉丁语datum, 给予。-a, 拉丁语复数后缀。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： data 词源
• dastardly 英文词源 dastardly (adj.) 1560s, "showing despicable cowardice," originally "dull," from Middle English dastard + -ly (1). 中文词源 dastardly ：邪恶残忍的 dast, 发晕，笨，daze的过去分词。-ard, 贬义后缀，人。原义为愚笨的，懦弱的，后用来指可鄙的，邪恶的。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： dastardly 词源， dastardly 含义。
• dashing 英文词源 dashing (adj.) 1801, "given to cutting a dash " (1786), which was a colloquial expression for "acting brilliantly," from dash (n.) in the sense of "showy appearance," which is attested from 1715. The sense of "splashing" is recorded from mid-15c. 中文词源 dashing ：潇洒的 来自dash的俚语义，向前冲，潇洒的。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： d
• daskiki 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random for for: [OE] For comes from a prehistoric Germanic * fora , which denoted ‘before’ – both ‘before’ in time and ‘in front’ in place. For itself meant ‘before’ in the Old English period, and the same notion is preserved in related forms such as first , fore , foremost , former , from , and of course before . Ger
• dashed 英文词源 dash (v.) c. 1300, probably from a Scandinavian source (compare Swedish daska , Danish daske "to beat, strike"), somehow imitative. The oldest sense is that in dash to pieces and dashed hopes . Intransitive meaning "move quickly" appeared c. 1300, that of "to write hurriedly" is 1726. Related: Dashed ; dashing . dashboard (n.) 1846, from dash (v.) + board (n.1); "board in front of a c
• dashboard 英文词源 dashboard (n.) 1846, from dash (v.) + board (n.1); "board in front of a carriage to stop mud from being splashed ( "dashed" ) into the vehicle by the horse's hoofs." Of motor vehicles, from 1904. 中文词源 dashboard ：仪表板 来自dash和board的组合词，原指马车的刷泥板，现指汽车的仪表板。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： dashboard 词源
• dash 英文词源 dash dash: [13] Dash is probably of Scandinavian origin – Danish daske ‘beat’ has been compared – but whether it was a borrowing or a home- grown word, it was no doubt formed in imitation of rapid impulsive violent movement. Its original sense in English was ‘hit, smash’ (now rather eclipsed, put preserved in such phrases as ‘dash someone’s hopes’). ‘Move quickly a
• Darwinism 英文词源 Darwinism (n.) 1864, from Charles Darwin (1809-1882), whose major works were "The Origin of Species" (1859) and "The Descent of Man" (1871), + -ism . 中文词源 Darwinism ：达尔文主义 来自19世纪英国生物学家、进化论奠基者达尔文。其字面意思为dear win(朋友)。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： Darwinism 词源， Darwinism 含义。
• dart 英文词源 dart (n.) early 14c., from Old French dart "throwing spear, arrow," from Proto-Germanic *darothuz cognates: Old English daroð , Old High German tart , Old Norse darraþr "dart"). Italian and Spanish dardo are said to be from Germanic by way of Old Provençal. dart (v.) late 14c., "to pierce with a dart," from dart (n.). Meaning "to move like a dart" is attested from 1610s. Related: D
• darned 英文词源 darn (v.) "to mend" c. 1600, perhaps from Middle French darner "mend," from darne "piece," from Breton darn "piece, fragment, part." Alternative etymology is from obsolete dern (see dern ). Related: Darned ; darning . darn (interj.) tame curse word, 1781, American English euphemism for damn , said to have originated in New England when swearing was a punishable offense; if so, its spr
• darn 英文词源 darn darn: English has two distinct words darn . The verb ‘mend with stitches’ [16] may come ultimately from an Old English verb diernan ‘hide’, a derivative of the adjective dierne ‘secret’, which in turn was descended from West Germanic * darnjaz . Darn the mild curse [18], which arose in American English, is usually taken to be a euphemistic alteration of damn , althoug
• darmstadtium 英文词源 darmstadtium "The chemical element of atomic number 110, a radioactive element produced artificially", Early 21st century: named after the German city of Darmstadt (where it was discovered) + -ium. 中文词源 darmstadtium ：鐽(达) 来自德国城市Darmstadt，因这种化学元素首次在该地发现而得名。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： darmstadtiu
• darling 英文词源 darling (n.) Old English deorling "darling, favorite minion," double diminutive of deor "dear" (see dear (adj.)). The vowel shift from -e- to -a- (16c.) is usual for -er- followed by a consonant. "It is better to be An olde mans derlyng, than a yong mans werlyng" (1562). 中文词源 darling ：宝贝 来自dear, 亲爱的。-ling, 小词后缀。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词
• dark horse 英文词源 dark horse (n.) in politics, 1842, an image from horse racing, in which dark is used in its figurative sense of "unknown." Moonraker is called a "dark horse"; that is neither his sire nor dam is known. ["Pierce Egan's Book of Sports," London, 1832] 中文词源 dark horse ：黑马（出人意外获胜的赛马或参赛人） 来自赛马行话，即暗中的突然出现的马。因而常
• dark 英文词源 dark dark: [OE] Dark comes ultimately from a Germanic base * derk -, * dark -, which also produced Old High German tarchanjan ‘hide’ and Middle Low German dork ‘place where dirt collects’ (outside Germanic, Lithuanian dargus has been compared). In Old English the word usually denoted absence of light, particularly with reference to ‘night’; the application to colours did n
• daring 英文词源 daring (n.) late 14c., verbal noun from dare (v.). 中文词源 daring ：勇敢的 来自dare, 勇于，敢于。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： daring 词源， daring 含义。
• daredevil 英文词源 daredevil (n.) 1794, "recklessly daring person," from dare (v.) + devil (n.). The devil might refer to the person, or the sense might be "one who dares the devil" (compare scarecrow , pickpocket , cutthroat , also fear-babe a 16c. word for "something that frightens children"). As an adjective, from 1832. 中文词源 daredevil ：冒失鬼 来自dare和devil的组合词。既可以理解
• dare 英文词源 dare dare: [OE] Dare used to be a widespread Germanic verb, with relatives in Old High German ( giturran ) and Gothic ( gadaursan ), but today it survives only in English (the similarlooking Danish turde and Swedish töras are probably not related). It comes via Germanic * ders - from an Indo-European * dhers -, which also produced Greek thrasús ‘bold’ and Old Slavic druzate ‘b
• Darby and John 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random plate plate: [13] Etymologically, a plate is something ‘flat’. It comes from Vulgar Latin * plattus ‘flat’, which may go back to Greek platús ‘broad’ (source of English place , plane the tree, and platypus ). It reached English via two separate Old French words, which have since coalesced: first plate , which gives
• dappled 英文词源 dapple dapple: [14] Dapple is a puzzling word. It is presumably derived from or linked in some way to its contemporary dapple-grey (although this has never been proved), which has formal and semantic links with several colour terms in other Germanic languages (such as Old Norse apalgrár , German apfelgrau , and Dutch appelgrauw ) that are surely too strong to be coincidental. They al
• dapper 英文词源 dapper dapper: [15] Modern English dapper connotes neatness, alertness, and liveliness, but its etymological significance as revealed by distant relatives such as Old High German tapfar ‘heavy’, Old Prussian debīkan ‘large’, and Old Slavic debelu ‘thick’, is ‘heavy’. The notion of ‘weightiness’ spread to ‘firmness, endurance in battle’, and hence ‘courage’
• dank 英文词源 dank (adj.) c. 1400, earlier as a verb (early 14c.), now obsolete, meaning "to moisten," used of mists, dews, etc. Perhaps from Scandinavian (compare Swedish dank "moist place," dänka "to moisten") or German (compare Middle High German damph , Dutch damp "vapor"). Now largely superseded by damp (adj.). Related: Dankness . 中文词源 dank ：潮湿的 词源不详。可能来自damp
• Dane 英文词源 Dane (n.) "native of Denmark," from Danish Daner (replacing Old English Dene (plural)); used in Old English of Northmen generally. Perhaps ultimately from a source related to Old High German tanar "sand bank," in reference to their homeland; or from Proto-Germanic *den- "low ground," for the same reason. Applied 1774 to a breed of large dogs. Danegeld not known by that name in Old Eng
• dangle 英文词源 dangle (v.) 1590s, probably from Scandinavian (compare Danish dangle , Swedish dangla "to swing about," Norwegian dangla ), perhaps via North Frisian dangeln . Related: Dangled ; dangling . 中文词源 dangle ：悬荡 可能来自拟声词，摇摇晃晃的声音。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： dangle 词源， dangle 含义。
• danger 英文词源 danger danger: [13] Etymologically, danger is a parallel formation to dominion . It comes ultimately from Vulgar Latin * domniārium ‘power or sway of a lord, dominion, jurisdiction’, a derivative of Latin dominus ‘lord, master’. English acquired the word via Old French dangier and Anglo- Norman daunger , retaining the word’s original sense until the 17th century (‘You sta
• dang 英文词源 dang (interj.) 1781 (in Sophia Lee's comedy "A Chapter of Accidents," which was acted first in 1780), euphemism for damn . 中文词源 dang ：该死的 来自damn的委婉语。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： dang 词源， dang 含义。
• dandy 英文词源 dandy dandy: [18] The first record of the word dandy comes in Scottish border ballads of the late 18th century, but by the early 19th century it had become a buzz term in fashionable London society. It is generally explained as being an abbreviation of jack-a-dandy ‘affected man’, a word first recorded in the 17th century which apparently incorporates Dandy , a colloquial Scottish
• dandruff 英文词源 dandruff dandruff: [16] The word dandruff (or dandriff , as it commonly used to be) first appears, out of the blue, in the mid 16th century, with no known relatives. Its first element, dand -, remains utterly obscure, but the second part may have been borrowed from Old Norse hrufa or Middle Low German rōve , both meaning ‘scab’ (Middle English had a word roufe ‘scab, scurf’,
• dandle 英文词源 dandle (v.) 1520s, of unknown origin. Perhaps somehow felt to be imitative. Compare Italian dondolare "to dandle, swing," and French dandiner , from Old French dandin "small bell," imitative of its sound. Related: Dandled ; dandling . 中文词源 dandle ：摇逗 可能来自拟声词，摇摇晃晃的声音。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： dandle 词源， d
• dandified 英文词源 dandy (n.) c. 1780, of uncertain origin; it first appeared in a Scottish border ballad: I've heard my granny crack O' sixty twa years back When there were sic a stock of Dandies O etc. In that region, Dandy is diminutive of Andrew (as it was in Middle English generally). The word was in vogue in London c. 1813-1819. His female counterpart was a dandizette (1821) with French-type endin
• dance 英文词源 dance dance: [13] The history of the word dance , now widespread amongst European languages (French dansir , Spanish danzar , Italian danzare , German tanzen , Swedish dansa , Russian tancovat ’), is disappointingly obscure. All these forms, including the English word, stem from an original Old French danser . This developed from an assumed Vulgar Latin * dansāre , which may have b
• dan 英文词源 dan title of address to members of religious orders, c. 1300, from Old French dan (Modern French dom ), from Latin dominus "lord" (source of Portuguese don , Spanish don , Italian donno ; see don (n.)). Dan (1) familiar form of masc. proper name Daniel . Dan (2) name of one of the 12 tribes of ancient Israel or its territory, named for its founder; literally "he who judges," related t
• damson 英文词源 damson damson: see damask 中文词源 damson ：西洋李子 因产自Damascus而得名。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： damson 词源， damson 含义。
• damselfly 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random parable parable: [14] The etymological idea underlying parable is of ‘drawing analogies’. It comes via Old French parabole and Latin parabola from Greek parabolé , a derivative of parabállein . This was a compound verb formed from pará ‘beside’ and bállein ‘throw’ (source of English ballistic [18]). It meant ‘p
• damsel 英文词源 damsel (n.) late 12c., from Old French dameisele "woman of noble birth" (Modern French demoiselle "young lady"), modified (by association with dame ) from earlier donsele , from Gallo-Roman *domnicella , diminutive of Latin domina "lady" (see dame ). Archaic until revived by romantic poets, along with 16c.-17c. variant form damozel . 中文词源 damsel ：少女，姑娘 dame, 女主人
• damper 英文词源 damper (n.) of a piano, 1783; of a chimney, 1788; agent noun from damp (v.). Either or both led to various figurative senses. 中文词源 damper ：挡板，闸门 来自damp, 潮湿，引申义减弱，阻挡。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： damper 词源， damper 含义。
• dampen 英文词源 dampen (v.) 1630s, "to dull or deaden" (of force, enthusiasm, ardor, etc.), from damp (adj.) + -en (1). Meaning "to moisten" is recorded from 1827. Related: Dampened ; dampening . 中文词源 dampen ：弄湿，减弱 来自damp, 潮湿，引申义减弱。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： dampen 词源， dampen 含义。
• damp 英文词源 damp damp: [14] The familiar adjectival use of damp as ‘slightly wet’ is a comparatively recent development, from the 18th century. When the word was first borrowed into English, from Middle Low German damp , it was a noun meaning ‘vapour’ (an application which survives in fire-damp ). It comes ultimately from a Germanic base * thump -. The first line of semantic development t
• Damocles 英文词源 Damocles courtier of Dionysius I, tyrant of Syracuse; his name in Greek means literally "fame of the people," from demos, damos "people" (see demotic ) + -kles "fame," a common ending in Greek proper names (as in Sophocles , Pericles ), from PIE *klew-es , from root *kleu- "to hear" (see listen ). To teach Damocles how a tyrant lives, Dionysius seated him at a banquet with a sword sus
• damnedest 英文词源 damnedest (adj.) also damndest , originally damnedst , 1830, superlative of damned (see damn ). 中文词源 damnedest ：最令人惊奇的 来自damn的最高级，最该死的。词义演变比较fucking good. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： damnedest 词源， damnedest 含义。
• damnation 英文词源 damnation (n.) c. 1300, "condemnation to Hell by God," also "fact of being condemned by judicial sentence," from Old French damnation , from Latin damnationem (nominative damnatio ), noun of action from past participle stem of damnare (see damn ). As an imprecation, attested from c. 1600. Damnation follows death in other men, But your damn'd Poet lives and writes agen. [Pope, letter t
• damn 英文词源 damn damn: [13] Damn comes via Old French damner from Latin damnāre , a derivative of the noun damnum . This originally meant ‘loss, harm’ (it is the source of English damage ), but the verb damnāre soon spread its application to ‘pronounce judgment upon’, in both the legal and the theological sense. These meanings (reflected also in the derived condemn ) followed the verb t
• dame 英文词源 dame dame: [13] Latin domina was the feminine form of dominus ‘lord’ (see DOMINION). English acquired it via Old French dame , but it has also spread through the other Romance languages, including Spanish dueña (source of English duenna [17]) and Italian donna (whence English prima donna , literally ‘first lady’ [18]). The Vulgar Latin diminutive form of domina was * dominice
• Damascus 英文词源 Damascus ancient city in Syria, famous in medieval times for silk and steel, mid-13c., from Latin Damascus , from Greek Damaskos , from Semitic (compare Hebrew Dammeseq , Arabic Dimashq ), from a pre-Semitic name of unknown origin. Related: Damascene , from Latin Damascenus "of Damascus." 中文词源 Damascus ：大马士革 叙利亚古城，以出产丝织品和钢铁著称。 该词
• damage 英文词源 damage damage: [14] Damage comes from Latin damnum ‘loss, damage’ (source of English damn ). It passed into Old French as dam , from which was formed the derivative damage . English borrowed and has preserved the Old French form, but in modern French it has become dommage . Besides damn , another English relative is indemnity [15], ultimately from Latin indemnis ‘undamaged’. =
• dam 英文词源 dam dam: [12] Dam , appropriately enough for a word related to the human control of water-courses, seems to have been borrowed from Middle Dutch dam . It appears to have been a fairly widespread West and East Germanic word, subsequently borrowed into North Germanic, but its ultimate source is not known. dam (n.1) "water barrier," early 14c., probably from Old Norse dammr or Middle Dut
• Dalmatian 英文词源 Dalmatian 1810, spotted dog, presumably named for Dalmatia , but dog breeders argue over whether there is a Croatian ancestry for the breed, which seems to be represented in Egyptian bas-reliefs and Hellenic friezes. Popular in early 1800s as a carriage dog, to trot alongside carriages and guard them in owner's absence. Even fire departments nowadays tend to spell it *Dalmation . 中文
• dally 英文词源 dally (v.) c. 1300, "to talk, converse," possibly from Anglo-French dalier "to amuse oneself," which is of uncertain origin. Sense of "waste time" emerged by late 14c. Related: Dallied ; dallying . 中文词源 dally ：游荡，拖延 词源不详。可能来自法语dalier, 自娱自乐，游荡，词源同delay. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： dally 词源，
• dalliance 英文词源 dalliance "A casual romantic or sexual relationship", Middle English (in the sense 'conversation'): from dally + -ance. 中文词源 dalliance ：嬉戏，调情 来自dally引申的幽默词义。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： dalliance 词源， dalliance 含义。
• Dalit 英文词源 Dalit "(In the traditional Indian caste system) a member of the lowest caste", Via Hindi from Sanskrit dalita 'oppressed'. 中文词源 Dalit ：达利特人，印度贱民 来自梵语，被统治者。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： Dalit 词源， Dalit 含义。
• dale 英文词源 dale dale: [OE] Both dale and dell [OE] come ultimately from the Germanic base * dal - (which also produced German tal , ultimate source of English dollar ). Dale goes back to the Germanic derivative * dalam , * dalaz , dell to the derivative * daljō . Cognate forms such as Old Norse dalr ‘bow’ and, outside Germanic, Greek thólos show that the underlying meaning of the word fami
• Dalai Lama 英文词源 Dalai Lama literally "the Ocean Lama," from Mongolian dalai "ocean" + lama . 中文词源 Dalai Lama ：达赖喇嘛 来自蒙古语。dalai, 海洋。lama, 祭司。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： Dalai Lama 词源， Dalai Lama 含义。
• dala-dala 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random main main: [OE] Main goes back to prehistoric Germanic * mag - ‘be able, have power’ (source also of English may and might , and distantly related to machine ). From it was descended Old English mægen ‘strength’. This now survives as a noun only in the expression with might and main , but it was also used attributively
• dal 英文词源 dal (n.) 1690s, from Hindi dal "split pulse," from Sanskrit dala , from dal "to split." 中文词源 dal ：豆糊 来自印度语，印度主食之一。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： dal 词源， dal 含义。
• daks 英文词源 daks "Trousers", 1930s (as a proprietary name for a brand of clothing): first recorded in this sense in the 1970s. 中文词源 daks ：裤子 来自品牌名DAKS俗化，据说是来自Dad’s slacks的缩写。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： daks 词源， daks 含义。
• daisy cutter 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random essence essence: [14] Essence and its derivative essential [14] are the English descendants of the Latin verb ‘to be’, esse (which came ultimately from the Indo-European base * es - ‘be’, source also of English is ). From it was formed the abstract noun essentia ‘being, existence’, acquired by English through Old Fre
• dais 英文词源 dais dais: [13] Ultimately, dais and disc are the same word. Both came from Latin discus ‘quoit’, which by medieval times had come to mean ‘table’ (see DESK). Its Old French descendant was deis , which was borrowed into Middle English as deis . It died out in English around 1600, but it survived in Scottish English, and was revived in England by antiquarians, its spelling base
• dairy 英文词源 dairy dairy: [13] Etymologically, a dairy is a place where a female kneader of bread works. The term for such an operative in Old English was dǣge , which came from the same Indo- European base (* dheigh -) as produced dough and the second syllable of lady . In Middle English this became deie or daye , and gradually progressed in meaning through ‘female servant’ in general to ‘
• daiquiri 英文词源 daiquiri (n.) type of alcoholic drink, 1920 (first recorded in F. Scott Fitzgerald), from Daiquiri , name of a district or village in eastern Cuba. 中文词源 daiquiri ：代基里酒 因产自古巴Daiquiri而得名。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： daiquiri 词源， daiquiri 含义。
• dainty 英文词源 dainty dainty: [13] In origin, dainty is the same word as dignity . The direct descendant of Latin dignitās in Old French was daintie or deintie , but Old French later reborrowed the word as dignete . It was the latter that became English dignity , but daintie took a route via Anglo-Norman dainte to give English dainty . At first it meant ‘honour, esteem’, but before a century wa
• daily 英文词源 daily (adj.) Old English dæglic (see day ). This form is known from compounds: twadæglic "happening once in two days," þreodæglic "happening once in three days;" the more usual Old English word was dæghwamlic , also dægehwelc . Cognate with German täglich . 中文词源 daily ：每日的，日常的 来自day的形容词。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：
• daikon 英文词源 daikon "Another term for mooli", Japanese, from dai 'large' + kon 'root'. 中文词源 daikon ：白萝卜 来自日语，来自汉语大根。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： daikon 词源， daikon 含义。
• dahlia 英文词源 dahlia dahlia: [19] The dahlia was named in 1791 in honour of Anders Dahl, an 18th-century Swedish botanist who discovered the plant in Mexico in 1788. The first record of the term in English is from 1804. During the 19th century it was used for a particular shade of red: ‘One of the many ugly shades that are to be worn this season is dahlia’, Pall Mall Gazette 29 September 1892.
• daguerreotype 英文词源 daguerreotype (n.) 1839, from French daguerreotype , coined from name of inventor, Louis Daguerre (1789-1851) + -type (see type (n.)). 中文词源 daguerreotype ：早期的银版照相法 来自其发明者19世纪法国科学家Louis Daguerre. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： daguerreotype 词源， daguerreotype 含义。
• dago 英文词源 dago dago: [18] Dago originated in the USA as a contemptuous term for a Spanish-speaking person. It is an alteration of Diego (the Spanish version of James ), a common Spanish forename, which itself was used in English in the 17th century for ‘Spaniard’: ‘Next follows one whose lines aloft do raise Don Coriat, chief Diego of our days’. By the late 19th century the application
• daggy 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random vain vain: [13] Latin vānus meant ‘empty’ (it was related to vacuus ‘empty’, source of English vacuum ). It passed into English via Old French vain in the sense ‘worthless’, and the main modern meaning ‘conceited’ did not develop until the 17th century. Also from vānus come English evanescent , vanish , vanity
• dagger 英文词源 dagger dagger: [14] Dagger has an uncertain history. There was a verb dag in Middle English, meaning ‘stab’, which suggests that dagger may simply be ‘something that stabs’, but similarity of form and sense indicates a connection too with Old French dague ‘dagger’. This appears to have come via Old Provençal or Old Italian daga from a hypothetical Vulgar Latin * daca , wh
• dagga 英文词源 dagga (n.) "marijuana," 1660s, from Afrikaans, from Hottentot dachab "cannabis sativa smoked as a narcotic." 中文词源 dagga ：大麻 来自南非荷兰语。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： dagga 词源， dagga 含义。
• dag 英文词源 dag (n.) "thin rain, drizzle, wet fog," late 17c., from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse dögg , plural daggir "dew," from Proto-Germanic *daowo- (source of Old English deaw ; see dew ). 中文词源 dag ：土包子 来自daggy的回构词。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： dag 词源， dag 含义。
• daft 英文词源 daft daft: [13] Daft was not always a term of reproach. It originally meant ‘mild, gentle’, and only in late Middle English slid to ‘stupid’ (in a semantic decline perhaps paralleling that of silly , which started off as ‘happy, blessed’). Middle English dafte corresponds directly to an Old English gedæfte , whose underlying sense seems to have been ‘fit, suitable’ (t
• daffy 英文词源 daffy (adj.) 1884, perhaps from daft (adj.), or from obsolete daffe "a halfwit" (early 14c.; mid-13c. as a surname). Compare late 15c. daffish "dull-witted, spiritless." With -y (2). Related: Daffily ; daffiness . 中文词源 daffy ：愚蠢的 来自daft, 愚蠢的。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： daffy 词源， daffy 含义。
• daffodil 英文词源 daffodil daffodil: [16] Originally, this word was affodil , and referred to a plant of the lily family, the asphodel; it came from medieval Latin affodillus , and the reason for the change from asph - (or asf -, as it often was in medieval texts) to aff - is probably that the s in medieval manuscripts looked very like an f . The first evidence of its use to refer to a ‘daffodil’,