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• cut 英文词源 cut cut: [13] There is no direct evidence that Old English had the word cut – the Old English terms were sceran ‘shear’, ceorfan ‘carve’, and hēawan ‘hew’ – but many etymologists have speculated that a pre-Conquest * cyttan did exist. Forms such as Norwegian kutte ‘cut’, Swedish kåta ‘whittle’, and Icelandic kuta ‘cut with a knife’ suggest an origin in a
• customs 英文词源 customs "The official department that administers and collects the duties levied by a government on imported goods", Late Middle English: originally in the singular, denoting a customary due paid to a ruler, later duty levied on goods on their way to market. 中文词源 customs ：海关 来自custom, 惯例，海关。-s, 复数后缀。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文
• customer 英文词源 customer (n.) late 14c., "customs official;" later "buyer" (early 15c.), from Anglo-French custumer , from Medieval Latin custumarius , from Latin consuetudinarius (see custom (n.)). More generalized meaning "a person with whom one has dealings" emerged 1540s; that of "a person to deal with" (usually wth an adjective, tough , etc.) is by 1580s. In Shakespeare, the word also can mean "
• custody 英文词源 custody (n.) mid-15c., from Latin custodia "guarding, watching, keeping," from custos (genitive custodis ) "guardian, keeper, protector," from PIE *(s)keu- "to cover, conceal" (see hide (n.1)). 中文词源 custody ：监护，监护权 来自PIE*skeu, 覆盖，遮盖，词源同sky, house, hide. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： custody 词源， custody 含义。
• custard 英文词源 custard custard: [15] A custard was originally a pie, which took its name from its ‘crust’ (Anglo- Norman * crustade , the source of the word, was a derivative of Old French crouste , from which English got crust ). The earliest English form was crustade , and intermediate spellings crustarde and custade occur. The reference in the name is to the pie’s pastry shell, not to its l
• cuss 英文词源 cuss (n.) 1775, American English dialectal, "troublesome person or animal," an alteration of curse (n.), or else a shortening of the slang sense of customer . cuss (v.) "to say bad words," 1815, alteration of curse (v.). Related: Cussed ; cussing . To cuss out attested by 1881. 中文词源 cuss ：诅咒 来自curse的拼写变体。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：
• cusp 英文词源 cusp (n.) 1580s, from Latin cuspis "point, spear, pointed end, head," which is of unknown origin. Astrological use is earliest. 中文词源 cusp ：会切点 来自PIE*sker, 切，砍，词源同shear,carnal. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： cusp 词源， cusp 含义。
• cushy 英文词源 cushy (adj.) "easy," 1915, Anglo-Indian slang, from Hindi khush "pleasant, healthy, happy" + -y (2). 中文词源 cushy ：舒服的 来自印度语。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： cushy 词源， cushy 含义。
• cushion 英文词源 cushion cushion: [14] Ultimately, cushion and quilt are the same word. Both come from Latin culcita ‘mattress, cushion’, which is related to Sanskrit kūrcás ‘bundle’, and both reached English via rather circuitous routes. In Gallo-Roman (the descendant of Latin spoken in France from the 5th to the 9th centuries) culcita underwent a transformation which produced Old French co
• curve 英文词源 curve curve: [15] Curve has a wide circle of relations in English. It comes from Latin curvus ‘curved’, which had connections with Greek kurtós ‘curved’, Greek korōnos ‘curved’ (source of English crown ), and Greek kírkos ‘ring, circle’ (source of English circle ). When English acquired it, it was still an adjective, and English did not convert it into a noun until
• curvaceous 英文词源 curvaceous (adj.) 1936, U.S. colloquial, from curve + facetious use of -aceous , Modern Latin botanical suffix meaning "of a certain kind." First recorded reference is to Mae West. 中文词源 curvaceous ：曲线优美的 curve,曲线，弧度。-aceous, 形容词后缀。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： curvaceous 词源， curvaceous 含义。
• curtsy 英文词源 curtsy (n.) 1540s, "expression of respect," a variant of courtesy (q.v.). Specific meaning "a bending the knee and lowering the body as a gesture of respect" is from 1570s. Originally not exclusively feminine. curtsy (v.) 1550s, from curtsy (n.). Related: Curtsied ; curtsying . 中文词源 curtsy ：屈膝礼 来知courtesy的拼写变体。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英
• curtain 英文词源 curtain curtain: [13] Latin cortīna meant ‘round vessel, cauldron’, but in the 4th-century Vulgate we find it being used to translate Greek aulaía ‘curtain’. The reason for this considerable semantic leap seems to have been a link perceived to exist between Greek aulaía , a derivative of aulē ‘court’, and Latin cohort - ‘court’ (source of English court ), although
• curtail 英文词源 curtail curtail: [16] The now defunct English noun curtal meant ‘horse with a docked tail’. It was borrowed in the 16th century from French courtault , a derivative of the adjective court ‘short’. Like English curt [17] this came from Latin curtus ‘cut off, shortened’, which in common with English short and shear , can be traced back to an Indo-European base * ker - or * s
• curt 英文词源 curt (adj.) mid-14c., from Latin curtus "(cut) short, shortened, incomplete," from PIE root *(s)ker- (1) "to cut" (see short (adj.)). Sense of "rude" is first recorded 1831. The Latin word was adopted early into most Germanic languages (compare Icelandic korta , German kurz , etc.) and drove out the native words based on Proto-Germanic *skurt- , but English retains short . 中文词源
• cursory 英文词源 cursory (adj.) c. 1600, from Middle French cursoire "rapid," from Late Latin cursorius "hasty, of a race or running," from Latin curs- , past participle stem of currere "to run" (see current (adj.)). 中文词源 cursory ：粗略的 来自词根cur, 跑，词源同current, course. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： cursory 词源， cursory 含义。 cursory ：草率
• cursor 英文词源 cursor (n.) computer sense is 1967 extension of name for the sliding part of a slide rule or other instrument (1590s), earlier "a running messenger" (c. 1300), from Latin cursor "runner," also "errand-boy," from curs- , past participle stem of currere "to run" (see current (adj.)). 中文词源 cursor ：光标 来自词根cur, 跑，词源同current, course. 该词的英语词源请访
• cursive 英文词源 cursive (adj.) 1784, from French cursif (18c.), from Medieval Latin cursivus "running," from Latin cursus "a running," from past participle of currere "to run" (see current (adj.)). The notion is of "written with a running hand" (without raising the pen), originally as opposed to the older uncial hand. 中文词源 cursive ：草书的 来自词根cur, 跑，词源同current, course. 该
• curse 英文词源 curse curse: [OE] Curse first appeared in late Old English (in the early 11th century) as curs . It has no known linguistic relatives, and it is not clear where it comes from. Perhaps the most plausible suggestion is that it was borrowed from Old French curuz ‘anger’ (which probably came from the verb * corruptiāre , a Vulgar Latin derivative of Latin corrumpere ‘destroy’ –
• curry 英文词源 curry curry: Of the two English words curry , the older, ‘groom a horse’ [13], is now almost forgotten except in the compound currycomb and the phrase curry favour . It comes, via Old French correier , from Vulgar Latin * conrēdāre ‘arrange, prepare, get ready’, which seems to have been an adaptation and partial translation of a prehistoric Germanic verb * garǣthjan , a der
• curriculum vitae 英文词源 curriculum vitae (n.) "brief account of one's life and work," 1902, from Latin curriculum vitae , literally "course of one's life" (see curriculum ). Abbreviated c.v. . 中文词源 curriculum vitae ：简历 curriculum, 流动。vitae, 生命，词源同vital. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： curriculum vitae 词源， curriculum vitae 含义。
• curriculum 英文词源 curriculum (n.) 1824, from Modern Latin transferred use of classical Latin curriculum "a running, course, career" (also "a fast chariot, racing car"), from currere (see current (adj.)). Used in English as a Latin word since 1630s at Scottish universities. 中文词源 curriculum ：全部课程 来自current, 流动的，流通的。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：
• current 英文词源 current current: [13] Current literally means ‘running’. It comes from Old French corant , the present participle of courre ‘run’, which in turn was descended from Latin currere ‘run’. This has been traced back to a prehistoric root denoting ‘swift movement’, which probably also produced car , career , carry , and charge . The Latin verb itself has a wide range of desc
• currency 英文词源 currency (n.) 1650s, "condition of flowing," from Latin currens , present participle of currere "to run" (see current (adj.)); the sense of a flow or course extended 1699 (by John Locke) to "circulation of money." 中文词源 currency ：通货，货币 来自current, 流动的，流通的。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： currency 词源， currency 含义。
• currant 英文词源 currant currant: [14] Etymologically, currants are grapes from ‘Corinth’. In the Middle Ages Corinth, in Greece, exported small dried grapes of particularly high quality, which became known in Old French as raisins de Corinthe ‘grapes of Corinth’. This phrase passed via Anglo-Norman raisins de corauntz into Middle English as raisins of coraunce . By the 16th century, coraunce
• curmudgeon 英文词源 curmudgeon (n.) 1570s, of unknown origin; the suggestion, based on a misreading of a garbled note from Johnson, that it is from French coeur mechant "evil heart" is not taken seriously; the first syllable may be cur "dog." Liberman says the word "must have been borrowed from Gaelic (and references muigean "disagreeable person"), with variant spelling of intensive prefix ker- . Related
• curlicue 英文词源 curlicue (n.) 1843, American English, from curly + cue , perhaps from French queue "tail" or letter Q in its looping script form. Earlier in this sense was curlie-wurlie (1772). 中文词源 curlicue ：书法图案等的花饰旋曲 curl，卷曲。cue, 尾巴，词源同queue. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： curlicue 词源， curlicue 含义。
• curling 英文词源 curling (n.) game played with stones on ice, 1610s, from present participle of curl (v.). "The name appears to describe the motion given to the stone" [OED]. A description of a similar game is attested from Flanders c. 1600. 中文词源 curling ：冰壶，冰上溜球 来自curl, 卷曲，弯，因其弧线动作而得名。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： cur
• curlew 英文词源 curlew curlew: [14] The name of the curlew was no doubt originally inspired by its haunting flutelike call, but it has been speculated that other forces have been at work too. The word was borrowed from Old French courlieu , which bears more than a passing resemblance to Old French courliu ‘messenger’ (a compound formed from courre ‘run’ and lieu ‘place’, from Latin locus
• curl 英文词源 curl curl: [14] Curl seems to have been borrowed from Middle Dutch krul ‘curly’, and indeed the original English forms of the word were crolle and crulle . The present-day form arose in the 15th century by a process known as metathesis, whereby the sounds r and u were transposed. The Middle Dutch word came from a Germanic * krusl -, source also of German kraus ‘curly’. Modern
• curium 英文词源 curium (n.) 1946, named by U.S. chemist Glenn T. Seaborg, who helped discover it in 1944, for the Curies (see Curie ). 中文词源 curium ：锔（放射性化学元素） 来自curie, 居里。是为了纪念伟大的物理学家居里夫人而根据她的名字命名的。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： curium 词源， curium 含义。
• curious 英文词源 curious curious: see cure curious (adj.) mid-14c., "eager to know" (often in a bad sense), from Old French curios "solicitous, anxious, inquisitive; odd, strange" (Modern French curieux ) and directly from Latin curiosus "careful, diligent; inquiring eagerly, meddlesome," akin to cura "care" (see cure (n.)). The objective sense of "exciting curiosity" is 1715 in English. In bookseller
• curie 英文词源 curie (n.) "unit of radioactivity," 1910, named for Pierre Curie (1859-1906) or his wife, Marie (1867-1934), discoverers of radium. 中文词源 curie ：居里（放射性活度单位） 以其发现者居里夫妇命名。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： curie 词源， curie 含义。
• crunch 英文词源 crunch (v.) 1814, from craunch (1630s), probably of imitative origin. Related: Crunched ; crunching . The noun is 1836, from the verb; the sense of "critical moment" was popularized 1939 by Winston Churchill, who had used it in his 1938 biography of Marlborough. 中文词源 crunch ：压碎声 拟声词。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： crunch 词源， crunch
• crumple 英文词源 crumple (v.) c. 1300, crumplen , frequentative of crumpen "to curl up" (from Old English crump "bent, crooked"). Related: Crumpled ; crumpling . 中文词源 crumple ：使弄皱，破碎 词源同crisp, crimp, 卷的，脆的。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： crumple 词源， crumple 含义。
• crumpet 英文词源 crumpet crumpet: [17] An isolated late 14th-century instance of the phrase crompid cake suggests that etymologically a crumpet may be literally a ‘curled-up’ cake, crompid perhaps being related to Old English crumb ‘crooked’. This was one of a wide range of closely related words descended from the Germanic base * kram - or * krem -, denoting ‘pressure’ (see CRAM). The coll
• crummy 英文词源 crummy (adj.) 1560s, "easily crumbled;" 1570s, "like bread," from crumb + -y (2). The second sense probably accounts for 18c. (and later in dialects) use, of a woman, "attractively plump, full-figured, buxom." Slang meaning "shoddy, filthy, inferior, poorly made" in use by 1859, probably is from the first sense, but influenced by crumb in its slang sense of "louse." 中文词源 crumm
• crumbs 英文词源 crumbs "Used to express dismay or surprise", Late 19th century: euphemism for Christ . 中文词源 crumbs ：天啦 来自Christ的委婉语。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： crumbs 词源， crumbs 含义。
• crumble 英文词源 crumble (v.) late 15c., kremelen , from Old English *crymelan , presumed frequentative of gecrymman "to break into crumbs," from cruma (see crumb ). The -b- is 16c., probably on analogy of French-derived words like humble , where it belongs, or by influence of crumb . Related: Crumbled ; crumbling . 中文词源 crumble ：使破碎 来自crumb, 面包屑。-le, 表反复。 该词的英
• crumb 英文词源 crumb crumb: [OE] Relatives of crumb are fairly widespread in the Germanic languages – German has krume , for example, and Dutch kruim – and it is represented in some non- Germanic Indo-European languages, such as Greek grūméā and even Albanian grime . As these forms indicate, the b is not original (the Old English word was cruma ); it first appeared in the 16th century, but cr
• cruise 英文词源 cruise cruise: see cross cruise (v.) 1650s, from Dutch kruisen "to cross, sail to and fro," from kruis "cross," from Latin crux . Compare the sense evolution in cognate cross (v.). Related: Cruised ; cruising . As a noun from 1706. 中文词源 cruise ：乘船游览 来自cross, 穿起，穿过。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： cruise 词源， cruise 含义。
• cruet 英文词源 cruet cruet: see crock cruet (n.) "small glass bottle for vinegar, oil, etc.," c. 1300, Anglo-French diminutive of Old French crue "an earthen pot," from Frankish *kruka or some other Germanic source (compare Old High German kruog ); related to crock . 中文词源 cruet ：调味瓶 词源同crock, cruse. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： cruet 词源， cruet 含义
• cruel 英文词源 cruel cruel: [13] Aptly, cruelty and crudeness are closely linked etymologically. Cruel comes via Old French cruel from Latin crūdēlis , a relative of Latin crūdus (which actually meant ‘cruel’ as well as ‘raw’ and ‘bloody’). Both come ultimately from an Indo-European base which also produced English raw , Greek kréas ‘flesh’ (whence English creosote and pancreas )
• crudites 英文词源 crudites (n.) 1960, from French crudités , literally "raw things" (see crudity ). 中文词源 crudites ：生菜色拉 来自crude，原始的。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： crudites 词源， crudites 含义。
• crude 英文词源 crude (adj.) late 14c., "in a raw state," from Latin crudus "rough; not cooked, raw, bloody," from PIE *krue-do- , from PIE *kreue- (1) "raw flesh" (see raw ). Meaning "lacking grace" is first attested 1640s. Related: Crudely ; crudeness . Crude oil is from 1865. 中文词源 crude ：原始的，粗糙的 来自PIE*kreue, 生肉，带血肉，词源同raw。可能进一下来自PIE*s
• crud 英文词源 crud (n.) "nonsense, rubbish," 1940, U.S. slang; originally 1920s army and college student slang for "venereal disease." Said to be a metathesis variant of curd, which actually makes it an unconscious return to the original Middle English form of that word (see curd ). As G.I. name for "disease of any and every sort" it is attested from 1945. 中文词源 crud ：渣滓 词源不确定，
• crucifix 英文词源 crucifix crucifix: see cross crucifix (n.) early 13c., from Old French crucefix (12c., Modern French crucifix ), from Latin cruci fixus "(one) fixed to the cross" (see crucify ). 中文词源 crucifix ：耶稣受难像 cruc, 十字，词源同cross. -fix, 固定。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： crucifix 词源， crucifix 含义。 crucifix ：十字架，基督
• crucible 英文词源 crucible crucible: see cross crucible (n.) early 15c., from Medieval Latin crucibulum "melting pot for metals," originally "night lamp." First element might be Middle High German kruse "earthen pot." Or perhaps it is from Latin crux on some fancied resemblance to a cross. Used of any severe test or trial since 1640s. 中文词源 crucible ：坩锅 词源不确定，可能同crock, cr
• crucial 英文词源 crucial crucial: see cross crucial (adj.) 1706, "cross-shaped," from French crucial , a medical term for ligaments of the knee (which cross each other), from Latin crux (genitive crucis ) "cross" (see cross (n.)). The meaning "decisive, critical" (1830) is extended from a logical term, Instantias Crucis, adopted by Francis Bacon (1620); the notion is of cross fingerboard signposts at
• crowning 英文词源 coronation (n.) late 14c., from Late Latin coronationem (nominative coronatio ) "a crowning," from past participle stem of Latin coronare "to crown," from corona "crown" (see crown (n.)). crown (v.) late 12c., from Old French coroner , from corone (see crown (n.)). Related: Crowned ; crowning . The latter in its sense of "that makes complete" is from 1650s. 中文词源 crowning ：圆满
• crown 英文词源 crown crown: [12] Crowns appear to have been named essentially from their circular shape. The word’s ultimate source, Greek korónē , simply meant ‘something curved’ (it came from the adjective korōnos ‘curved’, which was a relative of Latin curvus ‘curved’). Latin borrowed it as corōna ‘circular garland’, and passed it on via Old French corone and Anglo-Norman co
• crowd 英文词源 crowd crowd: [OE] The notion underlying crowd is of ‘pushing’ or ‘pressing’ (a semantic element shared by throng and of course by the now obsolete use of press for ‘crowd’, and echoed in such current expressions as ‘there’s quite a crush in here’). The Old English verb crūdan meant simply ‘press’, and of its relatives Middle Dutch crūden meant ‘press, push’
• crowbar 英文词源 crowbar (n.) 1748, with bar (n.1), earlier simply crow (c. 1400); so called from its "beak" or from resemblance to a crow's foot; or possibly it is from crows , from Old French cros , plural of croc "hook." 中文词源 crowbar ：铁撬棍 来自crow和bar的组合词，因形似乌鸦脚趾而得名。或可能是来自crook bar, 故意拼写成crowbar. 该词的英语词源请访问趣
• crow 英文词源 crow crow: [OE] The verb crow began in prehistoric West Germanic as an imitation of the harsh call of the cockerel. Its relatives still survive in other Germanic languages, including German krähen and Dutch kraaien . Early examples of birds other than cockerels being described as ‘crowing’ are comparatively rare, but nevertheless there seems no doubt that the verb formed the basi
• crouton 英文词源 crouton (n.) 1806, from French croûton "small piece of toasted bread," from croûte "crust," from Old French crouste (13c.), from Latin crusta (see crust (n.)). 中文词源 crouton ：油炸肉丁 来自法语，词源同crust, 面包皮。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： crouton 词源， crouton 含义。
• croupier 英文词源 croupier croupier: see crop croupier (n.) "one who clears the winnings from the table in gambling," 1731, from French croupier (17c.), originally one who rides behind another, on the croup or "rump" of a horse (a word of Germanic origin); hence extended to any one who backs up another; a "second." 中文词源 croupier ：赌台管理员 来自croup, 马屁股，马鞍。原指在马车
• croup 英文词源 croup croup: see crop croup (n.) "coughing illness," 1765, from obsolete verb croup "to cry hoarsely, croak" (1510s), probably echoic. This was the local name of the disease in southeastern Scotland, given wide currency by Dr. Francis Home (1719-1813) of Edinburgh in his 1765 article on it. Related: Croupy . 中文词源 croup ：哮吼，儿童咳嗽，马屁股 1.哮吼，拟声词。
• crouch 英文词源 crouch crouch: see crook crouch (v.) late 14c., probably from Old French crochir "become bent, crooked," from croche "hook" (see crochet ). Related: Crouched ; crouching . As a noun, from 1590s. 中文词源 crouch ：蹲 来自PIE*sker, 转，弯，词源同crumple, curve. 即弯下腰的，蹲下的。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： crouch 词源， crouch 含义
• crotchless 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random print print: [13] Latin premere meant ‘press’ (its past participial stem press - underlies English press ). It passed into Old French as preindre , whose past participle formed the basis of a noun preinte ‘impression, impressed mark’ – source of English print . The verb first used for the activity of ‘printing books’
• crotchety 英文词源 crotchety (adj.) 1825, from crotchet "whim or fancy" + -y (2). But the sense evolution is obscure. 中文词源 crotchety ：脾气坏的 词源同crook, cranky. 即脑子转弯，跟常人不一样的。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： crotchety 词源， crotchety 含义。
• crotchet 英文词源 crotchet crotchet: see croquet crotchet (n.) late 14c., "crocket," later "small hook" (early 15c.), from Old French crochet (pronounced "crotchet") "hook" (see crochet ). As a surgical instrument, from 1750. Figurative use in musical notation is from mid-15c., from the shape of the notes. Meaning "whimsical fancy" is from 1570s; perhaps from the same mechanical image in crank ; but ot
• crotch 英文词源 crotch crotch: see crook crotch (n.) 1530s, original meaning "pitchfork," from Old North French croche "shepherd's crook," variant of croc "hook" (see crochet ); meaning "region where the body forks" is 1590s. 中文词源 crotch ：裤裆 词源同crook,crochet. 俚语，即看起来像个小弯钩。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： crotch 词源， crotch 含义
• crossword 英文词源 crossword (adj.) January 1914, from cross (adj.) + word (n.). The first one ran in the "New York World" newspaper Dec. 21, 1913, but was called word-cross . crossword (n.) 1925, short for crossword puzzle (q.v.). 中文词源 crossword ：纵横填字游戏 来自cross和word的合成词。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： crossword 词源， crossword 含义。
• crosstalk 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random orthodox orthodox: [16] Greek orthós meant ‘straight, correct’ (it enters into numerous English compounds, including orthography ‘correct spelling’ [15] and orthopaedic [19]). Greek dóxa meant ‘opinion’; it was derived from the verb dokein ‘think’. Put them together and you got orthódoxos ‘having the right o
• cross-pollinate 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random twain twain: see two 中文词源 cross-pollinate ：异花授粉 cross, 交叉。pollinate, 授粉。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： cross-pollinate 词源， cross-pollinate 含义。
• cross-fertilize 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random price price: [13] The Latin word for ‘price’ was pretium (it was probably derived ultimately from the Indo-European preposition * preti ‘back’, and so etymologically denoted ‘recompense’). Its descendants have spread through most modern western European languages, including French prix , Italian prezzo , Spanish prec
• cross 英文词源 cross cross: [OE] When the Anglo-Saxons embraced Christianity they acquired cros , in the first instance from Old Irish cross . The word’s ultimate source was Latin crux , which may have been of Phoenician origin (although some have connected it with Latin curvus ‘bent’). ( Crux itself was borrowed into English in the 18th century.) The cross’s shape formed the basis of the ad
• crosier 英文词源 crosier crosier: see crook 中文词源 crosier ：权杖 来自cross, 十字架。因最初在棍顶置放十字架而得名。现多见曲柄形，形似牧羊人的曲柄杖。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： crosier 词源， crosier 含义。
• crore 英文词源 crore "Ten million; one hundred lakhs, especially of rupees, units of measurement, or people", From Hindi karoṛ , based on Sanskrit koṭi 'ten millions'. 中文词源 crore ：一千万 来自印度语。该词与lakh（十万）构成印度主要数字体系。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： crore 词源， crore 含义。
• croquette 英文词源 croquette (n.) 1706, from French croquette (17c.), from croquer "to crunch" (imitative) + diminutive suffix -ette . 中文词源 croquette ：炸丸子 croq, 拟声词，油炸的声音。-ette, 小词后缀。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： croquette 词源， croquette 含义。
• croquet 英文词源 croquet croquet: [19] Old Norse krókr ‘hook’ (source of English crook ) was borrowed into Old French as croc . This formed the basis of a diminutive, crochet , literally ‘little hook’, which has passed into English in various guises over the centuries. First to arrive was crotchet [14], applied to musical notes from their hooked shape. Crocket ‘curling ornamental device’
• crop top 英文词源 crop (v.) "cut off the top of a plant," c. 1200, from crop (n.). The general meaning of "to cut off" is mid-15c. Related: Cropped ; cropping . Women's fashion crop top is attested from 1984. 中文词源 crop top ：露脐短上衣 crop, 收割，剪短。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： crop top 词源， crop top 含义。
• crop 英文词源 crop crop: [OE] Old English cropp meant ‘bird’s craw’ and ‘rounded head of a plant’, and it was presumably the latter that gave rise to the word’s most familiar modern sense, ‘cultivated plant produce’, at some time in the 13th century. Its relatives in other Germanic languages, including German kropf and Dutch krop , are used for ‘bird’s craw’ but also for vario
• croon 英文词源 croon (v.) c. 1400, originally Scottish, from Middle Dutch kronen "to lament, mourn," perhaps imitative. Originally "to bellow like a bull" as well as "to utter a low, murmuring sound" (mid-15c.). Popularized by Robert Burns. Sense evolved to "lament," then to "sing softly and sadly." Related: Crooned ; crooning . 中文词源 croon ：低声吟唱 拟声词，模仿浅吟低唱的声音
• crook 英文词源 crook crook: [12] A crook ‘criminal’ is almost literally a ‘bent’ person. The underlying meaning of the word is ‘bend, curve, hook’, as can be seen in other applications such as ‘shepherd’s staff with a crooked end’, and particularly in the derivative crooked [13]. Crook was borrowed into English from Old Norse krókr ‘hook, corner’. Old French also acquired the
• cronyism 英文词源 cronyism (n.) 1840, "friendship," from crony + -ism . Meaning "appointment of friends to important positions, regardless of ability" is originally American English, from c. 1950. 中文词源 cronyism ：任人唯亲 来自crony, 密友。-ism , 主义，思想。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： cronyism 词源， cronyism 含义。
• crony 英文词源 crony crony: [17] Crony originated as a piece of Cambridge university slang. Originally written chrony , it was based on Greek khrónios ‘longlasting’, a derivative of khrónos ‘time’ (source of English chronicle , chronology , chronic , etc), and seems to have been intended to mean ‘friend of long-standing’, or perhaps ‘contemporary’. The first recorded reference to i
• crone 英文词源 crone crone: [14] Crone has a rather macabre history. Essentially it is the same word as carrion . It began life in Latin carō ‘flesh’, which had a Vulgar Latin derivative * carōnia ‘carcass’. In Old Northern French this became carogne , which was applied metaphorically to a withered old woman (English carrion comes from the Anglo-Norman form caroine ). Middle Dutch borrowed
• croissant 英文词源 croissant croissant: see crescent croissant (n.) 1899, see crescent . 中文词源 croissant ：新月形面包 来自crescent, 新月形。因形似新月而得名。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： croissant 词源， croissant 含义。
• Crohn 英文词源 Crohns disease 1935, for U.S. pathologist B.B. Crohn (1884-1983), one of the team that wrote the article describing it in 1932. 中文词源 Crohn ：’s disease 克罗恩病，局限性肠炎 因20世纪美国病理学家B.B.Crown发现而得名。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： Crohn 词源， Crohn 含义。
• croft 英文词源 croft (n.) Old English croft "enclosed field, small field," of unknown etymology. Crofter is 1799, originally Scottish. 中文词源 croft ：农场 词源不详。参照电影《古墓丽影》女主角名字Lara Croft。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： croft 词源， croft 含义。
• crocus 英文词源 crocus (n.) late 14c., from Latin crocus , from Greek krokos "saffron, crocus," probably of Semitic origin (compare Arabic kurkum ), ultimately from Sanskrit kunkumam , unless the Sanskrit word is from the Semitic one. The autumnal crocus ( Crocus sativa ) was a common source of yellow dye in Roman times, and was perhaps grown in England, where the word existed as Old English croh , b
• crockery 英文词源 crockery (n.) "earthen vessels collectively," 1719 (in crockery-ware ); see crock + -ery . 中文词源 crockery ：陶器 来自crock, 陶器。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： crockery 词源， crockery 含义。
• crocked 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random rococo rococo: [19] Old French roque was the source of English rock ‘stone’. From its modern French descendant roc was derived rocaille ‘decoration in the form of pebbles, shells, etc’, which was altered to rococo as a term for a style characterized by convoluted ornamentation. = rock 中文词源 crocked ：喝醉了的
• crock 英文词源 crock crock: English has two words crock . The one meaning ‘earthenware pot’ [OE] is now almost never heard on its own, except perhaps in the phrase ‘crock of gold’, but it is familiar from its derivative crockery [18]. Its immediate antecedents appear to be Germanic (Dutch, for instance, has the related kruik ), but cognate forms appear in other Indo-European languages, inclu
• crochet 英文词源 crochet (n.) 1840, from French crochet (12c.), diminutive of croc "hook," from Old Norse krokr "hook" (see crook ). So called for the hooked needle used. crochet (v.) 1858, from crochet (n.). Related: Crocheted ; crocheting . 中文词源 crochet ：钩针编织 词源同crook, 弯钩。因钩针形如小弯钩而得名。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： crochet
• croak 英文词源 croak (v.) early 14c., crouken , imitative or related to Old English cracian (see crack (v.)). Slang meaning "to die" is first recorded 1812, from sound of death rattle. Related: Croaked ; croaking . croak (n.) 1560s, from croak (v.). 中文词源 croak ：沙哑声 拟声词。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： croak 词源， croak 含义。
• critter 英文词源 critter (n.) 1815, dialectal or humorous pronunciation of creature . 中文词源 critter ：生物 来自creature的委婉表达。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： critter 词源， critter 含义。
• critique 英文词源 critique (n.) 1702, restored French spelling of 17c. critick "art of criticism" (see critic ), ultimately from Greek kritike tekhne "the critical art." 中文词源 critique ：评论 来自PIE*krei, 区分，筛选，判断，词源同crime, crisis. 即进行区分，判断，进行评论。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： critique 词源， critique 含义。
• criticism 英文词源 criticism (n.) c. 1600, "action of criticizing," from critic + -ism . Meaning "art of estimating literary worth" is from 1670s. 中文词源 criticism ：批评 词源同criterion, 标准。即使其达到标准的，批评使其改正的。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： criticism 词源， criticism 含义。 criticism ：批评，评论 词根词缀： -crit