英语词源

• corsair 英文词源 corsair corsair: [15] Etymologically, a corsair is someone who goes on a ‘course’. Latin cursus (source of English course ) was a derivative of Latin currere ‘run’, and meant originally a ‘run’. From this it developed to ‘journey’ and ‘expedition’ to ‘hostile or predatory expedition’, and eventually to the proceeds of such a raid, the ‘plunder’ or ‘booty’
• chaffer 英文词源 chaffer (n.) "a bargain," early 13c., cheffare "buying and selling," also (14c.) cheapfare , probably from Old English ceap "bargain, traffic, gain, sale" (see cheap ) + faru "faring, going" (see fare (n.)). In later use, "haggling." The verb is recorded from mid-14c. 中文词源 chaffer ：讲价；讨价还价 它在14世纪时拼作cheapfare，简单地说，cha-和单词cheap（便
• caitiff 英文词源 caitiff (adj.) c. 1300, "wicked, base, cowardly," from Old North French caitive "captive, miserable" (Old French chaitif , 12c., Modern French chétif "puny, sickly, poor, weak"), from Latin captivum (see captive , which was a later, scholarly borrowing of the same word). In most Romance languages, it has acquired a pejorative sense. caitiff (n.) c. 1300, "wicked man, scoundrel," from
• curdle 英文词源 curdle (v.) 1630s (earlier crudle , 1580s), "to thicken, cause to congeal," frequentative of curd (v.) "to make into curd" (late 14c.; see curd ). Of blood, in figurative sense "to inspire horror" from c. 1600. Related: Curdled (1590); curdling (c. 1700, almost always with reference to blood, in the figurative sense). 中文词源 curdle ：使凝结 来自curd,凝乳，凝结。 该词
• curd 英文词源 curd curd: [14] Curd began life as crud , a word which has survived in its own right. In the 15th century it underwent a process known as metathesis, by which the sounds r and u became transposed, producing curd . A derivative of this, dating from the 16th century, is curdle . The word’s ultimate ancestry is not known, although some consider that Gaelic gruth may be related. curd (n
• curb 英文词源 curb curb: [15] Ultimately, curb and curve are the same word. Latin curvāre ‘bend’ passed into Old French as courber , which Middle English borrowed as courbe ‘bend’. This seems to have formed the basis of a noun courbe or curb , which was originally used for a strap to restrain a horse, the underlying meaning perhaps being that pulling on the strap ‘bent’ the horse’s n
• curator 英文词源 curator (n.) mid-14c., from Latin curator "overseer, manager, guardian," agent noun from curatus , past participle of curare (see cure (v.)). Originally of those put in charge of minors, lunatics, etc.; meaning "officer in charge of a museum, library, etc." is from 1660s. 中文词源 curator ：馆长 来自cure,照看，治疗。引申词义图书馆馆长。 该词的英语词源请访
• curate 英文词源 curate curate: see cure curate (n.) late 14c., "spiritual guide," from Medieval Latin curatus "one responsible for the care (of souls)," from Latin curatus , past participle of curare "to take care of" (see cure (v.)). Church of England sense of "paid deputy priest of a parish" first recorded 1550s. 中文词源 curate ：助理牧师 来自cure,照看，治疗。即照看灵魂之人。
• curacy 英文词源 accuracy (n.) 1660s, from accurate + -cy . inaccuracy (n.) 1701, "quality or condition of being inaccurate," from inaccurate + -cy . As an example of this, by 1883. 中文词源 curacy ：助理牧师的职位 来自cure,照看。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： curacy 词源， curacy 含义。
• curacao 英文词源 Curacao West Indian island, Curaçao , discovered 1499 by Alonso de Hojeda, who called it Isla de los Gigantes in reference to the stature of the natives. The modern name probably is a Europeanized version of some lost native word. The liqueur is made from the dried peel of the Curaçao orange. 中文词源 curacao ：库拉索酒 因产自荷属西印度群岛Curacao 岛而得名。该
• cur 英文词源 cur (n.) early 13c., curre , earlier kurdogge used of both vicious dogs and cowardly dogs, probably from Old Norse kurra or Middle Low German korren both echoic, both meaning "to growl." Compare Swedish dialectal kurre , Middle Dutch corre "house dog." 中文词源 cur ：恶狗 拟声词，模仿狗叫的声音。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： cur 词源， c
• cupola 英文词源 cupola (n.) 1540s, from Italian cupola , from Late Latin cupula "a little tub," diminutive of Latin cupa "cask, barrel" (see cup (n.)). 中文词源 cupola ：穹顶 词源同cup. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： cupola 词源， cupola 含义。
• cunt 英文词源 cunt cunt: [13] The first known reference to the word cunt is in an early medieval Oxford street-name: Gropecuntlane (it was afterwards renamed Magpie lane ). This was around 1230, and from later in the same century there are records of a street of the same name (presumably the haunt of prostitutes) in London, probably around the area of modern Cheapside. York, too, had its Grapcunt l
• cunning 英文词源 cunning cunning: [13] Cunning did not always have its present-day negative connotations. At first it was a term of approval, meaning ‘learned’. It is connected in some way to the verb can , which originally meant ‘know’, although it is not altogether clear whether it is a direct use of the present participle of the English verb, or whether it was borrowed from the related Old
• cunnilingus 英文词源 cunnilingus (n.) 1887, from Latin cunnus "vulva" (see cunt ) + lingere "to lick" (see lick (v.)). The Latin properly would mean "one who licks a vulva," but it is used in English in reference to the action, not the actor. The verb ought to be *cunnilingue . Cunnilingus was a very familiar manifestation in classical times; ... it tends to be especially prevalent at all periods of high
• cuneiform 英文词源 cuneiform (adj.) 1670s, "wedge shaped," from French cunéiforme (16c.), from Latin cuneus "a wedge, wedge-shaped thing," which is of unknown origin, + French -forme (see form (n.)). Applied to characters in ancient Middle Eastern inscriptions made with wedge-shaped writing tools; first used in this sense by German physician and traveler Engelbert Kämpfer (1681-1716); in English from
• cumulus 英文词源 cumulus (n.) 1650s, "a heap," from Latin cumulus "a heap, pile, mass, surplus," from PIE *ku-m-olo- , suffixed shortened form of root *keue- "to swell" (compare Sanskrit svayati "swells up, is strong," Greek kyein "to swell," Lithuanian šaunas "firm, solid, fit, capable"). Meteorological use for "rounded mass of clouds" first attested 1803. 中文词源 cumulus ：积云 来自PIE*ke
• cumulonimbus 英文词源 cumulonimbus (n.) 1887, from cumulo- , comb. form of cumulus , + nimbus . 中文词源 cumulonimbus ：积雨云 来自cum-,堆积，词源同cumulus.nimbus,雨云。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： cumulonimbus 词源， cumulonimbus 含义。
• cumulative 英文词源 cumulative (adj.) c. 1600, from Latin cumulatus, past participle of cumulare "to heap," from cumulus "heap" (see cumulus ) + -ive . 中文词源 cumulative ：积累的 来自cum-,堆积，词源同cumulus. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： cumulative 词源， cumulative 含义。
• cummerbund 英文词源 cummerbund (n.) 1610s, from Hindi kamarband "loin band," from Persian kamar "waist" + band "something that ties," from Avestan banda- "bond, fetter," from PIE root *bhendh- "to bind" (see bend (v.)). 中文词源 cummerbund ：宽腰带 来自印度语。cummer,腰，bund-,词源同band. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： cummerbund 词源， cummerbund 含义。
• cum laude 英文词源 cum laude 1872, originally at Harvard, from Medieval Latin, literally "with praise," from Latin cum "with" + laude , ablative of laus (genitive laudis ) "praise" (see laud ). Probably from earlier use (in Latin) at Heidelberg and other German universities. 中文词源 cum laude ：三等优异成绩的第三等 来自拉丁短语，字面意思即为with laud.比较summa cum laude,ma
• cumin 英文词源 cumin (n.) Old English cymen , from Latin cuminum , from Greek kyminon , cognate with Hebrew kammon , Arabic kammun . 中文词源 cumin ：土茴香籽 来自阿拉伯语。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： cumin 词源， cumin 含义。
• cumbersome 英文词源 cumbersome (adj.) late 14c., from cumber (v.) + -some (1). Meaning "unwieldy, hard to carry" is from 1590s. Related: Cumbersomely ; cumbersomeness . 中文词源 cumbersome ：大而笨重的 来自cumber,拖累。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： cumbersome 词源， cumbersome 含义。
• cumber 英文词源 cumber (v.) c. 1300, "to overthrow, destroy; to be overwhelmed; to harass," apparently from French, but Old French combrer "to seize hold of, lay hands on, grab, snatch, take by force, rape," has not quite the same sense. Perhaps a shortened formation from a verb akin to Middle English acombren "obstructing progress," from Old French encombrer , from combre "obstruction, barrier," fro
• cum 英文词源 cum verb and noun, by 1973, apparently a variant of the sexual sense of come that originated in pornographic writing, perhaps first in the noun sense. This "experience sexual orgasm" slang meaning of come (perhaps originally come off ) is attested from 1650, in "Walking In A Meadowe Greene," in a folio of "loose songs" collected by Bishop Percy. They lay soe close together, they made
• culvert 英文词源 culvert (n.) 1773, origin unknown, perhaps, as Weekley suggests, the name of a long-forgotten engineer or bridge-builder. 中文词源 culvert ：涵洞 词源不详。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： culvert 词源， culvert 含义。
• cultivar 英文词源 cultivar (n.) 1923, from culti(vated) var(iety) , coined by U.S. horticulturalist Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858-1954) in "Gentes Herbarum." 中文词源 cultivar ：栽培品种 来自短语cultivated variety 的缩写。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： cultivar 词源， cultivar 含义。
• cultivable 英文词源 cultivate (v.) early 17c., from Medieval Latin cultivatus , past participle of cultivare "to cultivate," from Late Latin cultivus "tilled," from Latin cultus (see cult ). Figurative sense of "improve by training or education" is from 1680s. Related: Cultivable ; cultivated ; cultivating . 中文词源 cultivable ：可耕作的 来自cult-,耕作。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词
• cult 英文词源 cult cult: [17] The Indo-European base * quel -,* quol denoted primarily ‘move around, turn’ (it is the source of English cycle and wheel ). By metaphorical extension it came to signify ‘be busy’, which later branched out in two semantic directions: ‘inhabiting a place’ and ‘making a wild place suitable for crops’. These are both channelled into Latin colere , which me
• culprit 英文词源 culprit culprit: [17] Culprit appears to be a fossilized survival of the mixture of English and French once used in English courts. The usually accepted account of its origin is that it is a lexicalization of an exchange in court between the accused and the prosecutor. If the prisoner pleaded ‘not guilty’ to the charge read out against him, the prosecutor would have countered, in
• culpable 英文词源 culpable (adj.) late 13c., coupable , from Old French coupable (12c., Modern French coupable ), from Latin culpabilis "worthy of blame," from culpare "to blame," from culpa "crime, fault, blame, guilt, error." English (and for a time French) restored the first Latin -l- in later Middle Ages. 中文词源 culpable ：应受责备的 来自culp-,责备，谴责，词源同inculpable. 该词
• culottes 英文词源 culottes (n.) "a divided skirt," 1911, from French culotte "breeches" (16c.), a diminutive of cul "bottom, backside, backside, anus," from Latin culus "bottom, fundament." Earlier, in the singular cullote , it was used to mean "knee-breeches" (1842). Por le cul dieu "By God's arse" was an Old French oath. 中文词源 culottes ：裙裤 来自拉丁语culus,底部，见cul-de-sac.可能
• culmination 英文词源 culmination (n.) 1630s, from French culmination , noun of action from past participle stem of Late Latin culminare (see culminate ). Originally a term in astronomy/astrology; figurative use is from 1650s. 中文词源 culmination ：顶点，巅峰 来自culminate,终结，顶点。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： culmination 词源， culmination 含义。
• culminate 英文词源 culminate (v.) 1640s, from Late Latin culminatus past participle of culminare "to top, to crown," from Latin culmen (genitive culminis ) "top, peak, summit, roof, gable," also used figuratively, contraction of columen (see column ). Related: Culminated ; culminating . 中文词源 culminate ：终结 来自拉丁语culmen,顶点，词源同hill,column. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词
• cull 英文词源 cull cull: [15] Ultimately, cull is the same word as collect . It comes via Old French cuillir from Latin colligere ‘gather together’, whose past participial stem collēct - formed the original basis of English collect . The Latin verb was a compound formed from the prefix com - ‘together’ and legere ‘gather’ (source also of English elect , neglect , select , etc). = colle
• culinary 英文词源 culinary culinary: see kiln culinary (adj.) 1630s, "of the kitchen," from Latin culinarius "pertaining to the kitchen," from culina "kitchen, food" (see kiln ). Meaning "of cookery" is from 1650s. 中文词源 culinary ：烹饪的 词源同cook,kiln. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： culinary 词源， culinary 含义。
• cul-de-sac 英文词源 cul-de-sac (n.) 1738, as an anatomical term, from French cul-de-sac , literally "bottom of a sack," from Latin culus "bottom, backside, fundament." For second element, see sack (n.1). Application to streets and alleys is from 1800. 中文词源 cul-de-sac ：死胡同 来自法语，来自拉丁语culus,底部。字面意思即bottom of the sack. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源
• cuisine 英文词源 cuisine (n.) 1786, from French cuisine "style of cooking," originally "kitchen, cooking, cooked food" (12c.), from Late Latin cocina , earlier coquina "kitchen," from Latin coquere "to cook" (see cook (n.)). 中文词源 cuisine ：烹饪 词源同cook,culinary. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： cuisine 词源， cuisine 含义。
• cuff 英文词源 cuff (v.1) "to put a cuff on," 1690s, from cuff (n.). Related: Cuffed ; cuffing . cuff (n.) "bottom of a sleeve," mid-14c., cuffe "hand covering, mitten, glove," perhaps somehow from Medieval Latin cuffia "head covering," which is of uncertain origin. Sense of "band around the sleeve" is first attested 1520s; sense of "hem of trousers" is 1911. Off the cuff "extemporaneously" is 1938
• cudgel 英文词源 cudgel (n.) Old English cycgel "club with rounded head;" perhaps from PIE root *geu- "to curve, bend." cudgel (v.) "to beat with a cudgel," 1590s, from cudgel (n.). Related: Cudgeled ; cudgeling . 中文词源 cudgel ：短棒 来自PIE*geu,弯，转，大块，词源同cob,cod,cog. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： cudgel 词源， cudgel 含义。
• cuddle 英文词源 cuddle (v.) early 16c. (implied in cudlyng ), perhaps a variant or frequentative form of obsolete cull , coll "to embrace" (see collar (n.)); or perhaps from Middle English *couthelen , from couth "known," hence "comfortable with." It has a spotty early history and seems to have been a nursery word at first. Related: Cuddled ; cuddling . 中文词源 cuddle ：拥抱 词源不详，可能
• cud 英文词源 cud cud: [OE] The etymological meaning of cud appears to be ‘glutinous substance’. It is related to a wide range of Indo-European words in this general sense area, including Sanskrit játu ‘gum’, German kitt ‘putty’, and Swedish kâda ‘resin’, and the first syllable of Latin bitūmen (source of English bitumen [15]) is generally referred to the same source. Quid ‘pie
• cuckoo 英文词源 cuckoo cuckoo: [13] So distinctive is the cuckoo’s call that it is not always clear whether the names for the bird in various languages, based on the call, owe their similarity to borrowing or coincidence – Dutch, for instance, has koekoek , Russian kukúshka , Latin cuculus , and Greek kókkūx . In the case of English cuckoo , it seems to have been borrowed from Old French cucu
• cuboid 英文词源 cuboid (adj.) "cube-like," 1829, a modern coinage; see cube (n.) + -oid . 中文词源 cuboid ：长方体，矩形体 来自cube,立方体。-oid,类。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： cuboid 词源， cuboid 含义。
• cubit 英文词源 cubit (n.) ancient unit of measure based on the forearm from elbow to fingertip, usually from 18 to 22 inches, early 14c., from Latin cubitum "the elbow," from PIE *keu(b)- "to bend." Such a measure, known by a word meaning "forearm" or the like, was known to many peoples (Greek pekhys , Hebrew ammah , English ell ). 中文词源 cubit ：肘尺 来自PIE*keub,弯，转，词源同cam
• cubism 英文词源 cubism (n.) 1911, from French cubisme , from cube (see cube (n.)), said to have been coined by French art critic Louis Vauxcelles at the 1908 Salon des Indépendants in reference to a work by Georges Braque. Related: Cubist . 中文词源 cubism ：立体主义 来自cube,立方体。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： cubism 词源， cubism 含义。
• cubicle 英文词源 cubicle cubicle: see concubine cubicle (n.) mid-15c., "bedroom," from Latin cubiculum "bedroom," from cubare "to lie down," originally "bend oneself," from PIE root *keu(b)- "to bend, turn." With Latin -clom , suffix denoting place. Obsolete from 16c. but revived 19c. for "dormitory sleeping compartment," sense of "any partitioned space" (such as a library carrel or, later, office wor
• cubbyhole 英文词源 cubbyhole cubbyhole: see cove cubbyhole (n.) 1825, the first element possibly from a diminutive of cub "stall, pen, cattle shed, coop, hutch" (1540s), a dialect word with apparent cognates in Low German (such as East Frisian kubbing , Dutch kub ). Or related to cuddy "small room, cupboard" (1793), originally "small cabin in a boat" (1650s), from Dutch kajuit , from French cahute . Or
• cub 英文词源 cub (n.) 1520s, cubbe "young fox," of unknown origin; perhaps from Old Irish cuib "whelp," or from Old Norse kobbi "seal." Extended to the young of bears, lions, etc., after 1590s. The native word was whelp . Cub Scout is from 1922. 中文词源 cub ：幼兽 词源不详。可能来自cub-,躺下，词源同incubation,孵卵，孵化。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版
• cryptosporidium 英文词源 cryptosporidium "A parasitic coccidian protozoan found in the intestinal tract of many vertebrates, where it sometimes causes disease", Early 20th century: from crypto- 'concealed' + modern Latin sporidium 'small spore'. 中文词源 cryptosporidium ：隐胞子虫 crypto-,隐藏，-spor,胞子，词源同spore,spread. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： cryptospori
• cryptography 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 cryptography ：密码学 crypto-,隐藏，-graphy,写，记录。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： cryptography 词源， cryptography 含义。
• crypt 英文词源 crypt crypt: [18] The Greek adjective kruptós meant ‘hidden’. From it was derived kruptikós , which passed into English via late Latin crypticus as cryptic [17]. The feminine form of the original Greek adjective, krúptē , was used as a noun meaning literally ‘hidden place’, thus ‘underground chamber, vault’; English acquired it via Latin crypta . From the same ultimate
• cryogenic 英文词源 cryogenic (adj.) 1902, from cryogen "freezing mixture" (1875), from cryo- "freezing" + -genic "having to do with production" (see genus ). Related: Cryogenics (1958). 中文词源 cryogenic ：低温的，致冷的 来自cryo-,冷，冷冻，词源同crystal.-gen,产生，词源同generate. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： cryogenic 词源， cryogenic 含义。
• crux 英文词源 crux (n.) 1814, "cross," from Latin crux "cross" (see cross (n.)). Figurative use for "a central difficulty," is older, from 1718; perhaps from Latin crux interpretum "a point in a text that is impossible to interpret," in which the literal sense is something like "crossroads of interpreters." Extended sense of "central point" is from 1888. 中文词源 crux ：症结 词源同cross,十
• crutch 英文词源 crutch (n.) Old English crycce "crutch, staff," from Proto-Germanic *krukjo (cognates: Old Saxon krukka , Middle Dutch crucke , Old High German krucka , German Kröcke "crutch," related to Old Norse krokr "hook;" see crook ). Figurative sense is first recorded c. 1600. As a verb, from 1640s. Italian gruccia "crutch," crocco "hook" are Germanic loan-words. 中文词源 crutch ：腋杖
• crustacean 英文词源 crustacean (n.) 1835, from Crustacea the class name. As an adjective, 1858 (earlier was crustaceous , 1640s). 中文词源 crustacean ：甲壳动物 来自crust,硬壳，-acean,表属性，见cetacean,鲸目动物。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： crustacean 词源， crustacean 含义。
• creme de la creme 英文词源 creme de la creme (n.) "elite, finest flower of society," 1848, from French crème de la crème , literally "the cream of the cream" (see cream (n.)). 中文词源 creme de la creme ：精华 来自法语。字面意思即the cream of the cream. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： creme de la creme 词源， creme de la creme 含义。
• coalition 英文词源 coalition (n.) 1610s, "the growing together of parts," from French coalition (1540s), from Late Latin coalitus "fellowship," originally past participle of Latin coalescere (see coalesce ). First used in a political sense 1715. 中文词源 coalition ：联合政府 来自coalesce,合并。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： coalition 词源， coalition 含义。
• coalface 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random educate educate: [15] To educate people is literally to ‘lead them out’. The word comes from the past participle of Latin ēducāre , which meant ‘bring up, rear’ as well as more specifically ‘educate’. It was related to ēdūcere ‘lead out’ (source of English educe [15]), a compound verb formed from the prefix e
• coagulate 英文词源 coagulate (v.) early 15c., from Latin coagulatus , past participle of coagulare "to cause to curdle," from cogere "to curdle, collect" (see cogent ). Earlier coagule , c. 1400, from Middle French coaguler . Related: Coagulated ; coagulating . 中文词源 coagulate ：凝结 co-,表强调，-ag,做，驱动，见agent.即驱动到一起，凝结。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词
• clutter 英文词源 clutter (v.) 1550s, "to collect in heaps," variant of clotern "to form clots, to heap on" (c. 1400); related to clot (n.). Sense of "to litter" is first recorded 1660s. Related: Cluttered ; cluttering . clutter (n.) 1570s, "things lying in heaps or confusion," from clutter (v.); the "litter" sense is from 1660s. 中文词源 clutter ：凌乱，塞满 词源同clod,clot.即大块状的，
• clunker 英文词源 clunker (n.) "anything inferior," 1940s, agent noun from clunk (v.), probably in imitation of the sounds made by old machinery. Specific sense of "old car" was in use by 1951 ( clunk in the sense "old worn-out machine" is from 1940s). 中文词源 clunker ：大错 来自clunk,碰撞，出错。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： clunker 词源， clunker 含义。
• clunk 英文词源 clunk (v.) 1796, "to make the sound of a cork being pulled from a bottle;" imitative. This was the main sense through most of 19c. Meaning "to hit, strike" is attested from 1940s. Related: Clunked ; clunking . 中文词源 clunk ：碰撞声 拟声词，模仿物体碰撞的声音。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： clunk 词源， clunk 含义。
• cluck 英文词源 cluck (v.) Old English cloccian originally echoic. Compare Turkish culuk , one of the words for "turkey;" Greek klozein , Latin glocire , German glucken . Related: Clucked ; clucking . cluck (n.) 1703, "sound made by a hen," from cluck (v.). Slang meaning "stupid person" (turkeys are famously foolish) is from 1927. 中文词源 cluck ：咯咯叫 拟声词，比较click,clock. 该词的
• cloy 英文词源 cloy cloy: [14] Cloy originally meant ‘fasten with a nail’. It is a reduced form of the long obsolete acloy , which came from Anglo-Norman acloyer . This was a variant of Old French encloyer , a descendant of the Vulgar Latin compound verb inclāvāre , based on Latin clāvus ‘nail’ (source of Latin claudere ‘shut’, from which English gets close ). = close cloy (v.) "weary
• clover 英文词源 clover (n.) Middle English, from Old English clafre , clæfre "clover," from Proto-Germanic *klaibron (cognates: Old Saxon kle , Middle Low German klever , Middle Dutch claver , Dutch klaver , Old High German kleo , German Klee "clover"), which is of uncertain origin. Klein and Liberman write that it is probably from West Germanic *klaiwaz- "sticky pap" (see clay ), and Liberman adds,
• clove 英文词源 clove clove: There are two distinct words clove in English. In clove of garlic [OE] the underlying notion is of ‘cutting’; the head of garlic is as it were ‘divided up’ into separate sections. The word goes back ultimately to the Indo-European base * gleubh - ‘cut, carve’, which also produced English cleave and its now archaic past tense clove . Clove the spice [14] origin
• clout 英文词源 clout clout: [OE] In Old English, a clout was a patch of cloth put over a hole to mend it. Hence in due course it came to be used simply for a ‘piece of cloth’, and by further extension for a ‘garment’ (as in ‘Ne’er cast a clout till May be out’). However, the reason for its colloquial application to ‘hit, blow’, which dates from the 14th century, is not known, and i
• clot 英文词源 clot (n.) Old English clott "a round mass, lump," akin to Dutch kloot "ball," Danish klods "a block, lump," German Klotz "lump, block;" probably related to cleat and clod . clot (v.) early 15c., from clot (n.). Of fluids from 1590s. Related: Clotted ; clotting . 中文词源 clot ：血块，笨蛋 词源同clod,clump,cloud.指各种大块状的东西。 该词的英语词源请访问趣
• clonk 英文词源 clonk (v.) 1930, imitative. Related: Clonked ; clonking . 中文词源 clonk ：丁当声 拟声词。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： clonk 词源， clonk 含义。
• cloister 英文词源 cloister cloister: [13] A cloister was originally simply an enclosed place, a ‘close’. The word comes from Old French cloistre , a descendant of Latin claustrum ‘bar, bolt, enclosure’, which was formed from the past participial stem of Latin claudere ‘close’ (source of English close ). The notion of ‘enclosure’ led to the word’s being applied to a place of religious
• clog 英文词源 clog (n.) early 14c., clogge "a lump of wood," origin unknown. Also used in Middle English of large pieces of jewelry and large testicles. Compare Norwegian klugu "knotty log of wood." Meaning "anything that impedes action" is from 1520s. The sense of "wooden-soled shoe" is first recorded late 14c.; they were used as overshoes until the introduction of rubbers c. 1840. Originally all
• clod 英文词源 clod (n.) "lump of earth or clay," Old English clod- (in clodhamer "the fieldfare," a kind of thrush, literally "field-goer"), from Proto-Germanic *kludda- , from PIE *gleu- (see clay ). Synonymous with collateral clot until meaning differentiated 18c. Meaning "person" ("mere lump of earth") is from 1590s; that of "blockhead" is from c. 1600 (compare clodpate , clodpoll , etc.). It al
• clocker 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random harrier harrier: see hare 中文词源 clocker ：里程表作弊者 来自clock,即改时间作弊的人。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： clocker 词源， clocker 含义。
• cloche 英文词源 cloche (n.) type of bell jar, 1882, from French cloche "bell, bell glass" (12c.), from Late Latin clocca "bell" (see clock (n.1)). As a type of women's hat, recorded from 1907, so called from its shape. 中文词源 cloche ：钟形女帽 来自clock,因形似钟而得名。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： cloche 词源， cloche 含义。
• clobber 英文词源 clobber (v.) 1941, British air force slang, probably related to bombing; possibly echoic. Related: Clobbered ; clobbering . In late 19c. British slang the word principally had to do with clothing, as in clobber (n.) "clothes," (v.) "to dress smartly;" clobber up "to patch old clothes for reuse." 中文词源 clobber ：猛击 英国空军俚语，拟声词，模仿炸弹爆炸的声音。
• clitoris 英文词源 clitoris (n.) "erectile organ of female mammals," 1610s, coined in Modern Latin from Late Greek kleitoris , a diminutive, but the exact sense intended by the coiners is uncertain. Perhaps from Greek kleiein "to sheathe," also "to shut," in reference to its being covered by the labia minora. The related Greek noun form kleis has a second meaning of "a key, a latch or hook (to close a d
• clique 英文词源 clique (n.) 1711, "a party of persons; a small set, especially one associating for exclusivity," from obsolete French clique , originally (14c.) "a sharp noise," also "latch, bolt of a door," from Old French cliquer "click, clatter, crackle, clink," 13c., echoic. Apparently this word was at one time treated in French as the equivalent of claque (q.v.) and partook of that word's theatr
• clinker 英文词源 clinker (n.) "mass of slag," 1769, from klincard (1640s), a type of paving brick made in Holland, from Dutch klinkaerd , from klinken "to ring" (as it does when struck), of imitative origin. Also "a clinch-nail;" hence clinker-built (1769). The meaning "stupid mistake" is first recorded 1950 in American English; originally (1942) "a wrong note in music." 中文词源 clinker ：炉渣，
• clink 英文词源 clink (v.) early 14c., echoic (compare Dutch klinken , Old High German klingan , German klingen ). Related: Clinked ; clinking . The noun in the sound sense is from c. 1400. clink (n.2) "prison," 1770s, apparently originally (early 16c.) the Clynke on Clink Street in Southwark, on the estate of the bishops of Winchester. To kiss the clink "to be imprisoned" is from 1580s, and the word
• cline 英文词源 cline (n.) 1938, in biological use, back-formation from incline or from Greek klinein "to slope, to lean" (see lean (v.)). Middle English had clinen (v.) "to bend, bow," from Old French cliner , from Latin clinare . 中文词源 cline ：渐变群 来自PIE*klei,倾斜，词源同lean,incline.词义由倾斜到渐变。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： cline 词源
• clincher 英文词源 clincher (n.) early 14c., "person or thing that clinches" (i.e., secures nails by bending down or riveting the pointed end), late 15c. as a class of shipyard worker; agent noun from clinch (v.). As a type of nail, from 1735; as a conclusive statement, argument, etc., 1737. 中文词源 clincher ：起决定性的事实 来自clinch,解决。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英
• clinch 英文词源 clinch (v.) 1560s, "clasp, interlock," especially with a bent nail, variant of clench . The sense of "settle decisively" is first recorded 1716, from the notion of "clinching" the point of a nail to keep it fast. Boxing sense is from 1860. Related: Clinched ; clinching . clinch (n.) 1620s, "method of fastening," from clinch (v.). Meaning "a fastening by bent nail" is from 1650s. In pu
• clime 英文词源 clime (n.) 1540s, shortening of climate (or a nativization of Latin clima ). It might usefully take up the old, abandoned "horizontal region of the earth" sense of climate , but it is used chiefly by the poets and with no evident agreement on just what they mean by it. 中文词源 clime ：气候带 来自PIE*klei,倾斜，词源同lean,incline.原指从赤道到两极的区域，地域
• clerestory 英文词源 clerestory clerestory: see clear clerestory (n.) early 15c., probably from clere "clear," in a sense "light, lighted" (see clear (adj.)), and story (n.2), though this sense of that word is not otherwise found so early. Originally the upper part of the nave, transepts, and choir of a large church; so called because pierced with windows. Related: Clerestorial . 中文词源 clerestory ：
• clench 英文词源 clench clench: see cling clench (v.) Old English (be)clencan "to hold fast, make cling," causative of clingan (see cling ); compare stench / stink . Related: Clenched ; clenching . clench (n.) "part of a nail that clinchers," 1590s, from clench (v.). Meaning "a grasp, grip" is from 1779. 中文词源 clench ：攥紧 来自cling 拼写变体。比较stink,stench. 该词的英语词源请
• clementine 英文词源 clementine (n.) "cross between tangerine and sour orange," 1926, from French clémentine (1902). Originally an accidental hybrid said to have been discovered by (and named for) Father Clement Rodier in the garden of his orphanage in Misserghin, near Oran, Algeria. Introduced into U.S. and grown at Citrus Research Center in Riverside, Calif., as early as 1909. Clementine (adj.) 1705, i
• clematis 英文词源 Clematis (n.) plant genus, 1550s, "periwinkle," from Latin Clematis , from Greek klematis , in Dioscorides as the name of a climbing or trailing plant (OED says probably the periwinkle) with long and lithe branches, diminutive of klema "vine-branch, shoot or twig broken off" (for grafting), from klan "to break" (see clastic ). 中文词源 clematis ：铁线莲 一种藤蔓植物。来自
• cleft 英文词源 cleft (n.) 1570s, alteration (by influence of cleft , new weak past participle of cleave (v.1)), of Middle English clift (early 14c.), from Old English geclyft (adj.) "split, cloven," from Proto-Germanic *kluftis (cognates: Old High German and German kluft , Danish kløft "cleft"), from PIE *gleubh- (see glyph ). In Middle English anatomy, it meant "the parting of the thighs" (early 1
• clef 英文词源 clef (n.) 1570s in a musical sense, "character on a staff to indicate its name and pitch," from Middle French clef (12c.) "key, musical clef, trigger," from a figurative or transferred use of classical Latin clavis , which had only the literally sense "key" (see slot (n.2)). In the Middle Ages, the Latin word was used in the Guidonian system for "the lowest note of a scale," which is