英语词源

• daemon 英文词源 daemon (n.) alternative spelling (in specialized senses) of demon (q.v.). Related: Daemonic . 中文词源 daemon ：半神半人的精灵 来自demon的拼写变体，用来指半神半人的精灵。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： daemon 词源， daemon 含义。
• dado 英文词源 dado dado: see date dado (n.) 1660s, of pedestals, from Italian dado "die, cube," from Latin datum (see die (n.)). Of wood panelling in a room, from 1787. 中文词源 dado ：护壁板 来自拉丁文datum, 骰子，词源同die. 用于建筑物护壁板，据说是因形如骰子而得名。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： dado 词源， dado 含义。
• Dada 英文词源 dada 1920, from French dada "hobbyhorse," child's nonsense word, selected 1916 by Romanian poet Tristan Tzara (1896-1963), leader of the movement, for its resemblance to meaningless babble. Freedom: DADA DADA DADA, the howl of clashing colors, the intertwining of all contradictions, grotesqueries, trivialities: LIFE. [T. Tzara, "Dada Manifesto," 1918] Related: Dadaist ; Dadaism . 中文
• dad 英文词源 dad (n.) recorded from c. 1500, but probably much older, from child's speech, nearly universal and probably prehistoric (compare Welsh tad , Irish daid , Czech, Latin, Greek tata , Lithuanian tete , Sanskrit tatah , all of the same meaning). 中文词源 dad ：爸爸 来自儿语。比较father, mother. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： dad 词源， dad 含义。
• dacytl 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random peripatetic peripatetic: [16] Peripatetic means literally ‘walking round’. It comes via Old French peripatetique and Latin peripatēticus from Greek peripatētikós . This was a derivative of peripatein , a compound verb formed from the prefix perí - ‘round’ and patein ‘walk’. But the Greeks used it not simply for ‘
• dacoit 英文词源 dacoit "(In India or Burma (Myanmar)) a member of a band of armed robbers", From Hindi ḍakait , from ḍakaitī 'robbery by a gang'. 中文词源 dacoit ：武装匪徒 来自印度语。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： dacoit 词源， dacoit 含义。
• dachshund 英文词源 dachshund dachshund: [19] Dachshund means literally ‘badger-dog’ in German. It was originally bred in Germany for badger-hunting, its long thin body enabling it to burrow into the animals’ setts. The first known reference to it in English (in the anglicized form dachshound ) is in a poem by Matthew Arnold of around 1881, Poor Matthias : ‘Max, a dachshound without blot’. = ho
• dacha 英文词源 dacha (n.) from Russian dacha , originally "gift," from Slavic *datja , from PIE *do- "to give" (see donation ). 中文词源 dacha ：乡间别墅 来自俄语。来自PIE*do, 给予，词源同date, donate. 即礼物。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： dacha 词源， dacha 含义。
• dabble 英文词源 dabble (v.) 1550s, probably a frequentative of dab . Original meaning was "wet by splashing;" modern figurative sense of "do superficially" first recorded 1620s. Related: Dabbled ; dabbling . An Ellen Dablewife is in the Lancashire Inquests from 1336. 中文词源 dabble ：浅尝，涉足 dab, 轻拍。-le, 表反复。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： dabble 词源
• dab 英文词源 dab (v.) c. 1300, dabben "to strike," of unknown origin, perhaps imitative. Modern sense of "strike with a slight, quick pressure" developed by mid-16c., influenced by French dauber (see daub ). Related: Dabbed ; dabbing . As a noun from c. 1300, "heavy blow with a weapon." Dab hand is British slang, 1828, from dab "expert" (1690s), said to be school slang, of unknown origin, perhaps
• dys- 英文词源 dys- word-forming element meaning "bad, ill, abnormal," from Greek dys- , inseparable prefix "destroying the good sense of a word or increasing its bad sense" [Liddell Scott], "bad, hard, unlucky," from PIE root (and prefix) *dus- "bad, ill, evil" (cognates: Sanskrit dus- , Old Persian duš- "ill," Old English to- , Old High German zur- , Gothic tuz- "un-"), a derivative of the root *
• demi- 英文词源 demi- word-forming element meaning "half, half-sized, partial," early 15c., from Old French demi "half" (12c.), from Late Latin dimedius , from Latin dimidius "half, one-half," which contains the elements dis- "apart" (see dis- ) + medius "middle" (see medial ). 中文词源 demi- ：一半 来自拉丁词dimidius： di, 同dis-, 表示分开，mid, 中间，见middle.，指从中间分
• dis- 英文词源 dis- (assimilated as dif- before -f- , to di- before most voiced consonants), word-forming element meaning 1. "lack of, not" (as in dishonest ); 2. "do the opposite of" (as in disallow ); 3. "apart, away" (as in discard ), from Old French des- or directly from Latin dis- "apart, in a different direction, between," figuratively "not, un-," also "exceedingly, utterly," from PIE *dis- "a
• dia- 英文词源 dia- before vowels, di- , word-forming element meaning "through, thoroughly, entirely," from Greek dia- , from dia "through, throughout," probably from the root of duo "two" (see two ) with a base sense of "twice." 中文词源 dia- ：穿过，整个的 来自PIE *dwo, 二，词源同two. 表示穿过，整个的。见diagram, diameter. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版
• de- 英文词源 de- active word-forming element in English and in many words inherited from French and Latin, from Latin de "down, down from, from, off; concerning" (see de ), also used as a prefix in Latin usually meaning "down, off, away, from among, down from," but also "down to the bottom, totally" hence "completely" (intensive or completive), which is its sense in many English words. As a Latin
• diesel 英文词源 diesel diesel: [19] The name of this type of internalcombustion engine (which runs on oil rather than petrol) commemorates its inventor, the Parisborn Bavarian engineer Rudolf Diesel (1858– 1913). He conceived his idea for the engine in the early 1890s. In its development stage he was almost killed when one exploded, but by 1897 he had succeeded in producing an operable engine. With
• desultory 英文词源 desultory desultory: [16] Latin dēsultor designated a circus trick-rider who jumped from the back of one horse to another while they were galloping along (it was a derivative of dēsilīre , a compound verb formed from dē - ‘down’ and salīre ‘jump’, source of or related to English assail , assault , insult , salacious , salient , and sally ). From it was derived an adjectiv
• draconian 英文词源 draconian draconian: [18] Draconian ‘excessively harsh’ is a monument to the severe code of laws drawn up in 621 BC by the Athenian statesman Draco. Its purpose was to banish inequities in the system which were leading at the time to rumblings and threats of rebellion among the common people, and to an extent it succeeded, but all it is now remembered for is its almost pathologica
• duke 英文词源 duke duke: [12] Duke is one of a wide range of English words which come ultimately from the Latin verb dūcere ‘lead’ (see DUCT). In this case its source was the Latin derivative dux ‘leader’ (ancestor also of Italian duce , the title adopted by the 20th-century dictator Benito Mussolini), which passed into English via Old French duc . In Latin the word signified ‘military c
• diploma 英文词源 diploma diploma: [17] Etymologically, a diploma is a ‘folded paper’. It comes via Latin diplōma from Greek díplōma ; this was a derivative of the verb diploun ‘fold’, which in turn came from diplous ‘double’ (a distant cousin of English double ). Since official letters tended to be folded over, díplōma eventually came to mean ‘document, especially one issued by the
• derby 英文词源 derby (n.) type of hat," manufactured in U.S. 1850, name appears 1870, perhaps from annual Derby horse race in England, where this type of hat was worn. Race was begun 1780 by the 12th Earl of Derby; the name was used for any major horse race after 1875. Derby the English shire is Old English Deorby "deer village," from deor "deer" + by "habitation, homestead," from a Scandinavian sou
• damask 英文词源 damask damask: [14] Originally, damask was ‘cloth from Damascus’ (which was known as Damaske in Middle English). This Syrian city was a notable centre for export to the West in the Middle Ages, and has provided English with the damson [14] (originally the damascene plum, or plum from Damascus) and the damask rose [16]. In addition, the term for the method of inlaying steel known a
• derrick 英文词源 derrick derrick: [16] Around the end of the 16th century there was a famous Tyburn hangman called Derick . His name came to be used as a personification of hangmen in general, and subsequently as a metaphor for the ‘gallows’. Gradually, however, these macabre associations were lost, and by the 18th century derrick had progressed in meaning to ‘hoisting apparatus’. derrick (n.)
• despot 英文词源 despot despot: [16] The ultimate source of despot is Greek despótēs ‘lord’. It is related to Sanskrit dampati ‘master of the house’, and both probably go back to an Indo-European compound formed from * domo - ‘house’ (source of Latin domus ‘house’, and hence of English domestic ) and another element related to Latin potis ‘able’ and English power . (Latin dominus
• discipline 英文词源 discipline discipline: [13] The Latin word for ‘learner’ was discipulus , a derivative of the verb discere ‘learn’ (which was related to docēre ‘teach’, source of English doctor , doctrine , and document ). English acquired the word in Anglo- Saxon times, as discipul , and it was subsequently reformulated as disciple on the model of Old French deciple . Derived from disci
• deadline 英文词源 deadline deadline: [19] Originally, in US military parlance, a ‘deadline’ was a literal line drawn round a military prison, which the inmates were not allowed to cross. If they did, they risked being shot. The modern figurative application of the word, to a time-limit (originally for the submission of material for a particular edition of a newspaper), dates from around 1920. deadl
• dictator 英文词源 dictator (n.) late 14c., from Latin dictator , agent noun from dictare (see dictate (v.)). Transferred sense of "one who has absolute power or authority" in any sphere is from c. 1600. In Latin use, a dictator was a judge in the Roman republic temporarily invested with absolute power. 中文词源 dictator （独裁者）：古罗马的独裁官 英语单词dictator直接来自拉丁语
• December 英文词源 December December: [13] December was originally so named by the ancient Romans (Latin December ) because it was the tenth month of their calendar (which began with March). The term was derived from Latin decem ‘ten’. It reached English via Old French decembre . = decimal , ten December (n.) c. 1000, from Old French decembre , from Latin December , from decem "ten" (see ten ); tent
• diamond 英文词源 diamond diamond: [13] Diamond is an alteration of adamant , a rather archaic term which nowadays refers to hard substances in general, but formerly was also used specifically for ‘diamond’. The alteration appears to have come about in Latin of post-classical times: adamant - (stem of Latin adamas ) evidently became Vulgar Latin * adimant - (source of French aimant ‘magnet’), w
• dandelion 英文词源 dandelion dandelion: [13] Dandelion means literally ‘lion’s tooth’. It was borrowed from French dent-de-lion , which itself was a translation of medieval Latin dēns leōnis . It was presumably so called from the toothlike points of its leaves (although some have speculated that the name comes from the long taproot). The plant has a variety of local dialectal names, many of them
• daisy 英文词源 daisy daisy: [OE] The Anglo-Saxons named this familiar flower dæges ēage , literally ‘day’s eye’, from the fact that some species open in daylight hours to reveal their yellow disc, and close again at dusk. (The medieval Latin name for the daisy was solis oculus ‘sun’s eye’.) = day , eye daisy (n.) Old English dægesege , from dæges eage "day's eye," because the petals
• demon 英文词源 demon demon: [14] English acquired this word from Latin in two forms, classical Latin daemōn and medieval Latin dēmōn , which were once used fairly interchangeably for ‘evil spirit’ but have now split apart. Demon retains the sense ‘evil spirit’, but this was in fact a relatively late semantic development. Greek daímōn (source of Latin daemōn ) meant ‘divine power, fat
• delphic 英文词源 Delphic (adj.) 1590s, from Latin Delphicus , from Greek Delphikos , from Delphi (see Delphi ). 中文词源 delphic （隐晦的）：模拟两可的德尔斐神谕 古希腊人有求神谕（Oracle）的习俗。神谕是一种占卜形式，经过某个中介者，传达神明的意旨，对未来做出预言，回答询问。 在古希腊，最著名的神谕是德尔斐神谕。德尔
• dragonish 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random herald herald: [14] Etymologically, a herald is a ‘leader of an army’. The word comes via Old French herault from a prehistoric Germanic * khariwald -, a compound formed from * kharjaz ‘army’ (which occurs also in English harangue , harbinger , harbour , harness , and harry ) and * wald - ‘rule’ (source of English wi
• Diana 英文词源 Diana c. 1200, ancient Italian goddess of the moon, patroness of virginity and hunting, later identified with Greek Artemis, and through her with eastern goddesses such as Diana of Ephesus. The name is explained as *Diwjana , from *diw-yo- , from PIE root *dyeu- "to shine" (see Zeus ) in reference to the shining moon, or from dius "godly." 中文词源 Diana （戴安娜）：罗马神话
• deluge 英文词源 deluge deluge: see lavatory deluge (n.) late 14c., from Old French deluge (12c.), earlier deluve , from Latin diluvium "flood, inundation," from diluere "wash away," from dis- "away" (see dis- ) + -luere, comb. form of lavere "to wash" (see lave ). deluge (v.) 1590s; see deluge (n.). Related: Deluged ; deluging . 中文词源 deluge （洪水）：传说中上帝毁灭人类的大洪水
• daphne 英文词源 Daphne fem. proper name, from Greek daphne "laurel, bay tree;" in mythology the name of a nymph, daughter of the river Peneus, metamorphosed into a laurel by Gaia to save her from being ravished as she was pursued by Apollo. 中文词源 daphne （月桂树）：变成月桂树的宁芙仙女达芙妮 在希腊神话中，有一回阿波罗遇到丘比特在摆弄弓箭，便忍不住嘲
• daedalean 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random endorse endorse: [16] To endorse something is literally to write ‘on the back’ of it. The word comes from medieval Latin indorsāre , a compound verb formed from the prefix in - ‘in’ and dorsum ‘back’ (source of English dorsal , doss , and dossier ). (An earlier English version of the word was endoss [14], acquired v
• dionysian 英文词源 Dionysian (adj.) of or pertaining to Dionysos , Greek god of wine and revelry, identified with Roman Bacchus. His name is of unknown origin. Or in reference to historical men named Dionysius such as the tyrants of Syracuse and especially Dionysius Exiguus (see A.D. ), such as Dionysian period of 532 Julian years, when the moon phases recur on the same days of the week. 中文词源 di
• diaper 英文词源 diaper diaper: [14] The notion underlying diaper is of extreme whiteness. It comes ultimately from Byzantine Greek díaspros , which was a compound formed from the intensive prefix dia and áspros ‘white’. ( Aspros itself has an involved history: it started life as Latin asper ‘rough’ – source of English asperity – which was applied particularly to bas-relief on carvings a
• dessert 英文词源 dessert dessert: see desert dessert (n.) c. 1600, from Middle French dessert (mid-16c.) "last course," literally "removal of what has been served," from desservir "clear the table," literally "un-serve," from des- "remove, undo" (see dis- ) + Old French servir "to serve" (see serve (v.)). 中文词源 dessert （餐后甜点）：收拾餐桌后再吃的食物 在西方，人们喜欢在
• doughnut 英文词源 doughnut (n.) 1809, American English, from dough + nut (n.), probably on the notion of being a small round lump (the holes came later, first mentioned c. 1861). First recorded by Washington Irving, who described them as "balls of sweetened dough, fried in hog's fat, and called doughnuts, or olykoeks." Earlier name for it was dough-boy (1680s). Bartlett (1848) meanwhile lists doughnuts
• dollar 英文词源 dollar dollar: [16] English originally acquired the word dollar in the form doler ; this was the Low German form of German taler , a large silver coin in use in the German states from the 16th century. The word was short for Joachimstaler , literally ‘of Joachim’s valley’, and is a reference to the fact that silver from which the coins were made was mined near Joachimstal (moder
• digest 英文词源 digest digest: [15] English took the verb digest from dīgest -, the past participle of Latin dīgerere . This was a compound verb formed from the prefix dī - ‘apart’ and gerere ‘carry’, and originally meant ‘divide, distribute’ – a sense which developed via ‘dissolve’ into the specifically physiological ‘dissolve and obtain nutrients from food in the body’. A f
• drawing-room 英文词源 charade (n.) 1776, from French charade (18c.), probably from Provençal charrado "long talk, chatter," of obscure origin, perhaps from charrar "to chatter, gossip," of echoic origin. Compare Italian ciarlare , Spanish charlar "to talk, prattle." Originally not silent, but relying rather on enigmatic descriptions of the words or syllables. As we have ever made it a Rule to shew our Att
• debut 英文词源 debut (n.) 1751, from French début "first appearance," a figurative use from débuter "make the first stroke at billiards," also "to lead off at bowls" (a game akin to bowling), 16c., from but "mark, goal," from Old French but "end" (see butt (n.3)). The verb is first attested 1830. Début can only be pronounced as French, and should not be used by anyone who shrinks from the necessa
• dowry 英文词源 dowry dowry: [14] English acquired dowry via Anglo- Norman dowarie from Old French douaire (source of the originally synonymous but now little-used dower [14]). This in turn came from medieval Latin dōtārium , a derivative of Latin dōs ‘dowry’, which was related to dāre ‘give’ (source of English date , donate , etc). Its associated verb, dōtāre ‘endow’, is the ancest
• dean 英文词源 dean dean: [14] Etymologically, a dean is someone in charge of a group of ten people. That was the meaning of its ancestor, Greek dekānós , a word formed from déka ‘ten’. This eventually came to designate specifically someone in charge of ten monks, and this sense passed via late Latin decānus , Old French deien , and Anglo-Norman deen into English as the ‘head of a cathedra
• digit 英文词源 digit digit: [15] Digit was borrowed from Latin digitus . This meant ‘finger or toe’, but its underlying etymological sense is probably ‘pointer’; it appears to come from an Indo-European base * deik -, which also produced Latin dicere ‘say’ (originally ‘point out’), Greek deiknúnai ‘show’, Sanskrit diç - ‘show’, and possibly English toe . The word was used i
• devil 英文词源 devil devil: [OE] English acquired devil in the 8th century via late Latin diabolus from Greek diábolos , which originally meant ‘slanderer’. It was a derivative of diabállein ‘slander’, a compound verb literally meaning ‘throw across’, formed from diá ‘across’ and bállein ‘throw’ (whence English ballistics ). The Greek word has reached most European languages:
• dismal 英文词源 dismal dismal: [13] Etymologically, dismal means ‘bad day’. It comes, via Anglo-Norman dis mal , from Latin diēs malī , literally ‘evil days’, a term used to denote the two days in each month which according to ancient superstition were supposed to be unlucky (these days, of set date, were said originally to have been computed by Egyptian astrologers, and were hence also cal
• disaster 英文词源 disaster disaster: [16] The word disaster has astrological connotations. It comes, perhaps via French désastre , from Italian disastro ; this was a backformation from disastrato , literally ‘ill-starred’, a compound adjective formed from the pejorative prefix dis - and astro ‘star’, a descendant of Latin astrum ‘star’. This in turn came from Greek astron ‘star’, sourc
• divine 英文词源 divine divine: [14] Like deity , divine comes ultimately from Indo-European * deiwos , an ancestor whose godly connotations seem to have developed from earlier associations with ‘sky’ and ‘day’, and which probably originally meant ‘shining’. Its Latin descendants included deus ‘god’ (source of English deity ) and the adjective dīvus ‘godlike’ (the noun use of its
• Cambodia 英文词源 Cambodia from Kambu , legendary ancestor of the people. Related: Cambodian . 中文词源 Cambodia ：柬埔寨 英语的柬埔寨一词（Cambodia）是从法语Cambodge演化而来，而高棉人则叫自己的国家Kampuchea。 Kampuchea也是一个跟印度历史严重挂钩的名字，这个名字源于Kamboja，是吠陀时期的一群小国家（统称Mahājanapadas）中不起眼
• Cyprus 英文词源 Cyprus eatern Mediterranean island, from Greek Kypros "land of cypress trees" (see cypress ). 中文词源 Cyprus （塞浦路斯）：柏树之国 塞浦路斯（Cyprus)是地中海东部的一个岛屿。希腊人发现该岛屿时，发现岛上长有很多柏树(cypress，希腊语为kyparissos)，因此称其为Kypros，意思是“柏树之地”(land of cypress trees),进入英语
• Costa Rica 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random eunuch eunuch: [15] Eunuch has no etymological connection with ‘castration’. It is simply the fact that in former times male harem attendants in Oriental courts had their testicles removed, to ensure that they were not distracted from their work, that has led ultimately to the equation of eunuch with ‘castrated man’. Lit
• Colombia 英文词源 Colombia South American nation, independent from 1819 as part of Gran Colombia (after its breakup in 1850, as New Granada , then Colombia from 1863); named for Italian explorer Christopher Columbus (Italian Colombo , Portuguese Colom , Spanish Colón ). 中文词源 Colombia （哥伦比亚）：哥伦布之国 南美洲国家哥伦比亚Colombia的国名来自意大利著名航海家哥
• Chile 英文词源 Chile South American country, probably named from a local native word subsequently confused with Mexican Spanish chile "chili pepper" (see chili ). Suggestions are that the native word means "land's end" or else "cold, winter," which would make a coincidental convergence with English chilly . Related: Chilean . 中文词源 Chile （智利）：寒冷的国度 智利位于南美洲最南
• Coca Cola 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random flagon flagon: see flask 中文词源 Coca Cola （可口可乐）：用古柯叶和可乐果做成的饮料 可口可乐是一种世界闻名的饮料，起源于一八八六年美国佐治亚州亚特兰大城一家药品店的药剂师约翰 • 彭伯敦自制的一种有提神作用的糖浆。 合伙人罗宾逊从糖浆的两
• Carrefour 英文词源 carrefour (n.) late 15c., "place where four ways meet," from Old French carrefor (13c., quarrefour ), from Latin quadrifurcus "four-forked," from quatuor "four" (see four ) + furca "fork" (see fork (n.)). "Formerly quite naturalized, but now treated only as French" [OED]. Englished variant carfax is from Middle English carfourkes . 中文词源 carrefour ：家乐福超市 来自拉丁语
• Charlotte 英文词源 Charlotte fem. proper name, from the French fem. of Charlot , a diminutive of Charles . Meaning "apple marmalade covered with bread-crumbs" is attested from 1796, presumably from French (where, however, the dessert name is attested only from 1804), possibly from the fem. proper name, but the connection is obscure. Perhaps from some French dialect word. Compare Middle English charlette
• Cheyenne 英文词源 Cheyenne 1778, from French Canadian, from Dakota Sahi'yena , a diminutive of Sahi'ya , a Dakotan name for the Cree people. 中文词源 Cheyenne ：夏延 怀俄明州的最大城市。Cheyenne这个词就直接是搬用了以前生活在美国中部大平原上的强大原住民部落——夏延族（Cheyenne Nation）的名字。然而夏延所在地曾经并不是夏延族所控制区
• Chicago 英文词源 Chicago (n.) town founded in 1833, named from a Canadian French form of an Algonquian word, either Fox /sheka:ko:heki "place of the wild onion," or Ojibwa shika:konk "at the skunk place" (sometimes rendered "place of the bad smell"). The Ojibwa "skunk" word is distantly related to the New England Algonquian word that yielded Modern English skunk (n.). Related: Chicagoan . 中文词源
• Cascade Range 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random encroach encroach: [14] Something that encroaches on something else literally seizes it with its ‘hooks’. The word was borrowed from Old French encrochier ‘catch in a hook’, hence ‘seize’. This was a compound formed from the prefix en - and croc ‘hook’ (source of English crochet , crocket , and croquet ), a noun
• Connecticut 英文词源 Connecticut U.S. state, originally the name of the river, said to be from Mohican (Algonquian) quinnitukqut "at the long tidal river," from *kwen- "long" + *-ehtekw "tidal river" + *-enk "place." 中文词源 Connecticut ：康涅狄格州 Connecticut，又译康乃迪克州。最初，该名称出自美国东北部的莫西干语言，写作Quinnituqut，是一条河流的名字，字面
• Colorado 英文词源 Colorado U.S. state (organized as a territory 1861, admitted as a state 1876), named for the river, Spanish Rio Colorado , from colorado "ruddy, reddish," literally "colored," past participle of colorar "to color, dye, paint," from Latin colorare (see coloration ). 中文词源 Colorado ：科罗拉多 名字来自发源于当地的大河——科罗拉多河。这条河流因为富含粘
• Carolina 英文词源 Carolina 1663, North American colony named for King Charles II (the Latin form of the male proper name is Carolus ). Earlier French colonists called the region Caroline (1564) in honor of Charles IX, King of France. A 1629 grant here by Charles I of England was named Carolana . The original site of the name is modern South Carolina and the tract originally included North Carolina and
• California 英文词源 California name of an imaginary realm in "Las sergas de Esplandián" ("Exploits of Espladán"), a romance by Spanish writer Garci Ordóñez de Montalvo, published in 1510. It was a sequel to his "Amadis de Gaula," and was said to have been influential among Spanish explorers of the New World. It could have led them to misidentify Baja California as this mythical land and to mistake it
• Cambridge 英文词源 Cambridge Old English Grontabricc (c.745) "Bridge on the River Granta" (a Celtic river name, of obscure origin). The change to Cante- and later Cam- was due to Norman influence. The river name Cam is a back-formation in this case, but Cam also was a legitimate Celtic river name, meaning "crooked." 中文词源 Cambridge ：剑桥，剑桥大学 剑桥是音译与意译合成的地名。
• cooperator 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random substitute substitute: see statue 中文词源 cooperator ：合作者，合作社社员 词根词缀： co-共同 + -oper-工作 + -ator名词词尾 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： cooperator 词源， cooperator 含义。
• cylindricity 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random cha cha: see tea 中文词源 cylindricity ：圆柱度；柱面性  来源于希腊语kulindros(圆形容器)和kulindein(滚动)。 词根词缀： cylindr圆柱体 + -icity名词词尾 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： cylindricity 词源， cylindricity 含义。
• cyclometry 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random forward forward: see forth 中文词源 cyclometry ：测圆法 词根词缀： -cycl-圆 + -o- + -metr-测量;仪表 + -y名词词尾 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： cyclometry 词源， cyclometry 含义。
• cycloid 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random plough plough: [OE] Plough was not the original English word for an ‘implement for turning over the soil’. That was Old English sulh , a relative of Latin sulcus ‘furrow’. Plough was borrowed in the 10th century from Old Norse plógr , a descendant of prehistoric Germanic * plōgaz . And this in turn was derived from a b
• cyclograph 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random guarantee guarantee: [17] Guarantee is essentially the same word as warrant , which is of Germanic origin (Germanic initial w - became g(u) - in the Romance languages). It was probably borrowed into English from the Spanish form garante (this is suggested by early spellings garanté and garante in English), and later changed to
• cyclical 英文词源 cyclical (adj.) 1817, from cyclic + -al (1). 中文词源 cyclical ：轮转的，循环的  词根词缀： -cycl-圆 + -ical形容词词尾 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： cyclical 词源， cyclical 含义。
• curative 英文词源 curative (adj.) early 15c., from Old French curatif (15c.) "curative, healing," from Latin curat- , past participle stem of curare "to cure" (see cure (v.)). As a noun, attested from 1857. 中文词源 curative ：治疗的，治愈的，有疗效的   词根词缀： -cur-关心,照料 + -ative形容词词尾 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： curative 词源，
• cultivator 英文词源 cultivator (n.) 1660s, noun of action (in Latin form) from cultivate . As the name of an agricultural tool, from 1759. 中文词源 cultivator ：耕种者，栽培者 词根词缀： -cult-耕种,培育 + -ive(e略) + -ator名词词尾 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： cultivator 词源， cultivator 含义。
• cultivation 英文词源 cultivation (n.) c. 1700, of knowledge, etc., a figurative use, from French cultivation (16c.), noun of action from cultiver , from Latin cultivare "to till" (see cultivate ). Meaning "raising of a plant or crop" is from 1719; literal sense of "tilling of the land" is from 1725. 中文词源 cultivation ：耕作，种植；教养，修养 词根词缀： -cult-培育 + -ive形容词词
• cryptonym 英文词源 cryptonym "A code name", Late 19th century: from crypto- 'hidden' + -onym. 中文词源 cryptonym ：匿名，假名  词根词缀： -crypt-隐藏,秘密 + -onym-名 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： cryptonym 词源， cryptonym 含义。
• cryptology 英文词源 cryptology (n.) 1640s, from crypto- + -ology . 中文词源 cryptology ：密码研究，密码术   词根词缀：-crypt-隐藏,秘密 + -o- + -logy…学(科) 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： cryptology 词源， cryptology 含义。
• cryptograph 英文词源 cryptography (n.) 1650s, from French cryptographie or directly from Modern Latin cryptographia , from Greek kryptos "hidden" (see crypt ) + -graphy . Related: Cryptograph ; cryptographer . 中文词源 cryptograph ：密码；密码打字机；暗码记录法   词根词缀： -crypt-隐藏,秘密 + -o- + -graph-写,画 → 隐藏的记号 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英
• crypto 英文词源 crypto- before vowels crypt- , word-forming element meaning "secret" or "hidden," used in forming English words since at least 1760, from Latinized form of Greek kryptos "hidden, concealed, secret" (see crypt ; the Greek comb. form was krypho- ). Crypto-fascist is attested from 1937; crypto-communist from 1946. cryptogram (n.) 1880, from crypto- + gram "word, letter." A modern word co
• cryptical 英文词源 garter garter: [14] The ultimate source of garter was probably an unrecorded Gaulish word meaning ‘leg’ (related to Welsh gar ‘leg’). It was borrowed into Old French at some point and used as the basis of the noun garet , which (in relation to people) meant ‘place where the leg bends, knee’. From this in turn was derived Old French gartier ‘band just above or below the k
• cruciform 英文词源 cruciform (adj.) 1660s, from Modern Latin cruciformis , from Latin crux (genitive crucis ) "stake, cross" (see cross (n.)) + forma "form" (see form (n.)). 中文词源 cruciform ：十字形的   词根词缀： -cruc-十字 + -i- + -form-形 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： cruciform 词源， cruciform 含义。
• cruciferous 英文词源 cruciferous (adj.) 1650s, from Late Latin crucifer "cross-bearing," from Latin crux (genitive crucis ) "stake, cross" (see cross (n.)). Originally in literal senses; botanical use (in reference to a symmetrical arrangement of four petals) is from 1851. 中文词源 cruciferous ：十字花科的，(开)十字花的 词根词缀： -cruc-十字 + -i- + -fer-携带,拿取 + -ous形容词词
• crucifer 英文词源 cruciferous (adj.) 1650s, from Late Latin crucifer "cross-bearing," from Latin crux (genitive crucis ) "stake, cross" (see cross (n.)). Originally in literal senses; botanical use (in reference to a symmetrical arrangement of four petals) is from 1851. 中文词源 crucifer ：十字花科植物，执十字架的人   词根词缀： -cruc-十字 + -i- + -fer-携带,拿取 该词的英
• cruciate 英文词源 cruciate (adj.) "cross-shaped," from Modern Latin cruciatus , from Latin crux (genitive crucis ) "cross" (see cross (n.)). Obsolete meaning "tormented" is 1530s, from Latin cruciat- , past participle stem of cruciare "cause pain or anguish to," literally "crucify," from crux . 中文词源 cruciate ：十字形的   词根词缀： -cruc-十字 + -i- + -ate形容词词尾 该词的英
• credential 英文词源 credential (n.) "that which entitles to credit," 1756, probably a back-formation from credentials . Earlier in English as an adjective, "confirming, corroborating" (late 15c.). As a verb, "provide with credentials," by 1828 (implied in dredentialed ). 中文词源 credential ：凭证；信任状，证书；国书  词根词缀： -cred-相信,信任 + -ent形容词词尾 + -ial形容词
• credence 英文词源 credence (n.) mid-14c., from Medieval Latin credentia "belief," from Latin credentum (nominative credens ), past participle of credere "believe, trust" (see credo ). 中文词源 credence ：信用，信任，凭证  词根词缀： -cred-相信,信任 + -ence名词词尾 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： credence 词源， credence 含义。
• creatress 英文词源 creatress "A female creator", Late 16th cent.; earliest use found in Edmund Spenser (?1552–1599), poet and administrator in Ireland. From creator + -ess: see -tress . 中文词源 creatress ：女创办者，女创作者 词根词缀： -cre-创造 + -ator名词词尾(o略) + -ess名词词尾(女性或雌性) 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： creatress 词源，