英语词源

• candlewick 英文词源 snuff snuff: English has three words snuff , all probably going back ultimately to a prehistoric Germanic base * snuf -, imitative of the sound of drawing air noisily in through the nose. Snuff ‘powdered tobacco for inhaling’ [17] was borrowed from Dutch snuf . This was probably short for snuftabak , etymologically ‘sniff-tobacco’, which in turn was derived from Middle Dutch s
• candle 英文词源 candle candle: [OE] Candle is one of the earliest English borrowings from Latin. It probably arrived with Christianity at the end of the 6th century, and is first recorded in a gloss from around the year 700. Latin candēla was a derivative of the verb candēre ‘be white, glow’, also the source of English candid and related to incandescent and incense . Candelabrum [19] is a Latin
• candied 英文词源 candied (adj.) c. 1600, past participle adjective from candy (v.). 中文词源 candied ：糖渍的 来自candy，糖果。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： candied 词源， candied 含义。
• candida 英文词源 candida "A yeast-like parasitic fungus that can sometimes cause thrush", Modern Latin, feminine of Latin candidus 'white'. 中文词源 candida ：念珠菌 来自词根cand, 照明，白色，词源同candle,蜡烛。因通常呈白色而得名。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： candida 词源， candida 含义。
• candelabra 英文词源 candelabrum (n.) 1811, from Latin candelabrum , which meant "candlestick," from candela (see candle ). Old English had candeltreow "candle-tree" in same sense. The word was borrowed earlier (late 14c.) from Old French as chaundelabre with the Latin sense. Candelabra is the Latin plural. 中文词源 candelabra ：枝状大烛台 来自candle, 蜡烛。-brum, 工具格后缀，复数形式
• candela 英文词源 candela (n.) unit of luminous intensity, 1950, from Latin candela (see candle ). 中文词源 candela ：坎，坎德拉（光强度单位） 来自词根cand, 照明，词源同candle,蜡烛。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： candela 词源， candela 含义。
• Cancer 英文词源 cancer cancer: [14] Cancer comes from Latin cancer , which meant literally ‘crab’. It was a translation of Greek karkínos ‘crab’, which, together with its derivative karkínōma (source of English carcinoma [18]) was, according to the ancient Greek physician Galen, applied to tumours on account of the crablike pattern formed by the distended blood vessels around the affected
• cancan 英文词源 cancan cancan: [19] The English word was borrowed from French, where it originally, in the 16th century, meant ‘noise, uproar’. Its ultimate source is unknown, although it has traditionally been associated with Latin quanquam ‘although’, taken to be the prelude to a noisy scholastic argument. Its application to the uproarious dance began in the 19th century, in French as well
• canasta 英文词源 canasta (n.) 1948, Uruguayan card game played with two decks and four jokers, popular c. 1945-1965; from Spanish, literally "basket," from Latin canistrum (see cannister ); perhaps in reference to the "packs" of cards used. 中文词源 canasta ：卡纳斯塔纸牌戏 词源可能同cane, 芦苇，引申义芦苇编的篮子，放牌的地方。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源
• canard 英文词源 canard (n.) before 1850, from French canard "a hoax," literally "a duck" (from Old French quanart , probably echoic of a duck's quack); said by Littré to be from the phrase vendre un canard à moitié "to half-sell a duck," thus, from some long-forgotten joke, "to cheat." 中文词源 canard ：假新闻 来自法语canard, 鸭子，骗子，模仿鸭子叫声。比较quack, 鸭叫，江
• canape 英文词源 canapé "A small piece of bread or pastry with a savoury topping, served with drinks at receptions or formal parties", French, sense 1 being a figurative extension of the sense 'sofa' (as a ‘couch’ on which to place toppings). See also canopy . 中文词源 canape ：装饰有奶酪等的开胃面包 法语词。词源同canopy, 蚊帐，沙发。因这种面包上的装饰品形如
• canalize 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random omelette omelette: [17] The omelette seems to have been named for its thinness, like a sheet of metal. The word was borrowed from French omelette , the modern descendant of Old French amelette . This meant literally ‘thin sheet of metal’, and was an alteration, by metathesis (the reversal of sounds) of alumette . This in tur
• canal 英文词源 canal (n.) early 15c., from French canal , chanel "water channel, tube, pipe, gutter" (12c.), from Latin canalis "water pipe, groove, channel," noun use of adjective from canna "reed" (see cane (n.)). Originally in English "a pipe for liquid," its sense transferred by 1670s to "artificial waterway." 中文词源 canal ：沟渠，运河 词源同cane, 芦苇。引申义笔直的人工河
• Canada 英文词源 Canada 1560s (implied in Canadian ), said to be a Latinized form of a word for "village" in an Iroquoian language of the St. Lawrence valley that had gone extinct by 1600. Most still-spoken Iroquoian languages have a similar word (such as Mohawk kana:ta "town"). Canada goose is attested from 1772. 中文词源 Canada ：加拿大 来自当地Iroquoian语，义为村庄。 该词的英语
• can 英文词源 can can: [OE] English has two distinct words can . The verb ‘be able to’ goes back via Old English cunnan and Germanic * kunnan to an Indo- European base * gn -, which also produced know . The underlying etymological meaning of can is thus ‘know’ or more specifically ‘come to know’, which survived in English until comparatively recently (in Ben Jonson’s The Magnetick Lad
• camshaft 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random posse posse: [17] Posse was the Latin verb for ‘be able’. It was a conflation of an earlier expression potis esse ‘be able’; and potis ‘able’ was descended from an Indo-European base * pot that also produced Sanskrit pati - ‘master, husband’ and Lithuanian patis ‘husband’. In medieval Latin posse came to be u
• campus 英文词源 campus (n.) "college grounds," 1774, from Latin campus "a field," probably properly "an expanse surrounded" (by woods, higher ground, etc.), from PIE *kampos "a corner, cove," from root *kamp- "to bend" (cognates: Lithuanian kampus "corner," Polish kępa "cluster of trees or brush"). First used in college sense at Princeton. 中文词源 campus ：校园 来自camp, 平地，平原，后
• camphor 英文词源 camphor camphor: [15] Camphor is probably of Indian origin. It has been traced back to Sanskrit karpūram , which appears to have reached English via Arabic kāfūr and then either Old French camphre or medieval Latin camphora . European forms replaced the long Arabic ā with a nasalized vowel. camphor (n.) substance extensively used in medicine, early 14c., caumfre , from Old French
• campanology 英文词源 campanology "The art or practice of bell-ringing", Mid 19th century: from modern Latin campanologia , from late Latin campana 'bell'. 中文词源 campanology ：鸣钟学 campan, 钟。-logy, 学说。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： campanology 词源， campanology 含义。
• campanile 英文词源 campanile (n.) 1630s, from Italian, from campana "bell," from Late Latin campana , originally "metal vessel made in Campania ," region around Naples. 中文词源 campanile ：钟楼 因产自意大利Campana而得名。其字面义为平原，来自camp, 并比较champagne. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： campanile 词源， campanile 含义。
• camomile 英文词源 camomile (n.) mid-13c., from Old French camemile , from Late Latin camomilla , from Latin chamomilla , from Greek chamaimelon , literally "earth apple," from chamai "on the ground" (also "dwarf;" see chameleon ) + melon "apple" (see malic ). So called for its scent. Old English had it as camemalon . 中文词源 camomile ：甘菊 cam, 同human, 土。-mile,同melon, malic。因这种菊
• camisole 英文词源 camisole (n.) 1816, from French camisole (16c.), from Provençal camisola "mantle," diminutive of camisa "shirt," from Late Latin camisia "shirt, nightgown" (see chemise ). 中文词源 camisole ：（背心式）女内衣 来自PIE *kem, 遮盖，词源同chemise, heaven(存在争议). 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： camisole 词源， camisole 含义。
• camellia 英文词源 camellia camellia: [18] The camellia, a shrub of oriental origin, was named in the mid-18th century by the Swedish taxonomist Linnaeus after the Moravian Jesuit missionary and botanist Joseph Kamel (in modern Latin, Camellus) (1661– 1706), who described the flora on the Philippine island of Luzon. The spelling of its name, with a double l , encourages a short ‘e’ pronunciation,
• camel 英文词源 camel camel: [OE] Naturally enough, camel is of Semitic origin: Hebrew has gāmāl , for example, and Arabic jamal . It was a relative of these that was the source of Greek kámēlos , which passed via Latin camēlus into English as early as the mid 10th century. (It replaced a previous Old English olfend , a word – shared by other early Germanic languages – apparently based on th
• camcorder 英文词源 camcorder (n.) 1982, from camera and recorder . 中文词源 camcorder ：摄像机 来自camera和recorder的合成词。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： camcorder 词源， camcorder 含义。
• cambric 英文词源 cambric (n.) late 14c., from Kamerijk , Flemish form of Cambrai , city in northern France where the cloth was originally made, from Latin Camaracum . The modern form of the English word has elements from both versions of the name. 中文词源 cambric ：细棉布 因产自法国北部城市Cambrai而得名。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： cambric 词源， ca
• camber 英文词源 camber (n.) 1610s, nautical term, from Old French cambre , chambre "bent," from Latin camurum (nominative camur ) "crooked, arched;" related to camera . 中文词源 camber ：拱曲度 来自PIE *kam , 转，弯，拱，词源同chamber, camera. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： camber 词源， camber 含义。
• camaraderie 英文词源 camaraderie (n.) 1840, from French camaraderie , from camarade "comrade" (see comrade ). 中文词源 camaraderie ：同志情谊 词源同chamber，comrade,chum, 原指同处一室的人。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： camaraderie 词源， camaraderie 含义。
• cam 英文词源 cam (n.1) "a projecting part of a rotating machinery," 1777, from Dutch cam "cog of a wheel," originally "comb;" cognate of English comb (n.). This might have combined with English camber "having a slight arch;" or the whole thing could be from camber . cam (n.2) abbreviation of camera , by 1990. 中文词源 cam ：凸轮 可能来自PIE *kam , 转，弯，拱，进一步来自PIE*sk
• calyx 英文词源 calyx (n.) 1680s, from Latin calyx , from Greek kalyx "seed pod, husk, outer covering" (of a fruit, flower bud, etc.), from root of kalyptein "to cover, conceal" (see cell ). The proper plural is calyces . Some sources connect the word rather with Greek kylix "drinking cup." 中文词源 calyx ：花萼 来自PIE *kel, 隐藏，词源同cell, hole. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词
• calypso 英文词源 Calypso sea nymph in the "Odyssey," literally "hidden, hider" (perhaps originally a death goddess) from Greek kalyptein "to cover, conceal," from PIE *kel- "to cover, conceal, save," root of English Hell (see cell ). The type of West Indian song is so called from 1934, but the origin of the name is obscure. 中文词源 calypso ：海神，卡利普索民歌（流行于加勒比海地区
• Calvinist 英文词源 Calvinism (n.) 1560s, from John Calvin (1509-1564), Protestant reformer, + -ism . Alternative form Calvinian was in use in 1566. Generalized association with stern moral codes and predestination is attested since at least 1853. Related: Calvinist . Huguenot 1562, from Middle French Huguenot , according to French sources originally political, not religious. The name was applied in 1520
• calque 英文词源 calque (n.) "loan translation of a foreign word or phrase," from French calque , literally "a copy," from calquer "to trace by rubbing" (itself borrowed in English 1660s as calk ), introduced 16c. from Italian calcare , from Latin calcare "to tread, to press down." 中文词源 calque ：仿造词 来自拉丁词calco, 踢，踩，词源同decal, inculcate. 原指拓本，通过拓本描
• calorific 英文词源 calorific "Relating to the amount of energy contained in food or fuel", Late 17th century: from Latin calorificus , from calor 'heat'. 中文词源 calorific ：有热量的 来自calorie, 热量。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： calorific 词源， calorific 含义。 calorific ：生热的，发热的，热(量)的 词根词缀： -calor-热- + -i- + -fic形容
• calm 英文词源 calm calm: [14] The underlying meaning of calm seems to be not far removed from ‘siesta’. It comes ultimately from Greek kauma ‘heat’, which was borrowed into late Latin as cauma . This appears to have been applied progressively to the ‘great heat of the midday sun’, to ‘rest taken during this period’, and finally to simply ‘quietness, absence of activity’. Cauma p
• callus 英文词源 callus (n.) "hardened skin," 1560s, from Latin callus , variant of callum "hard skin," related to callere "be hard," from PIE root *kal- (3) "hard" (cognates: Sanskrit kalika "bud," Old Irish calath "hard," Old Church Slavonic kaliti "to cool, harden"). 中文词源 callus ：老茧 来自PIE *kal, 硬的，词源可能同cold, glacier. 即因冷而结冰变硬。 该词的英语词源请
• calloused 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random bout bout: see bow 中文词源 calloused ：起老茧的 来自callus, 老茧。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： calloused 词源， calloused 含义。
• calling 英文词源 calling (n.) "vocation," mid-13c., verbal noun from call (v.). The sense traces to I Cor. vii:20. 中文词源 calling ：召唤 来自call，呼叫。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： calling 词源， calling 含义。
• calisthenics 英文词源 calisthenics (n.) 1847 ( calisthenic (adj.) is from 1839), formed on model of French callisthenie , from Latinized comb. form of Greek kallos "beauty" (see Callisto ) + sthenos "strength" + -ics . Originally, gymnastic exercises suitable for girls and meant to develop the figure and promote graceful movement. The proper Greek, if there was such a word in Greek, would have been *kallis
• call 英文词源 call call: [OE] Essentially, call is a Scandinavian word, although it does occur once in an Old English text, the late 10th-century Battle of Maldon . It was borrowed from Old Norse kalla , which can be traced back via West and North Germanic * kal - to an Indo-European base * gol - (among other derivatives of this is Serbo-Croat glagól ‘word’, source of Glagolitic , a term for a
• californium 英文词源 californium "The chemical element of atomic number 98, a radioactive metal of the actinide series, first produced by bombarding curium with helium ions", 1950s: named after California University (where it was first made) + -ium. 中文词源 californium ：锎 因在加利福利亚大学伯克利分校首次合成而得名。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： cali
• calf 英文词源 calf calf: English has two distinct words calf , both of Germanic origin. Calf ‘young cow’ goes back to Old English cealf , descendant of a prehistoric West Germanic * kalbam , which also produced German kalb and Dutch kalf . Calf of the leg [14] was borrowed from Old Norse kálfi , of unknown origin. calf (n.1) "young cow," Old English cealf (Anglian cælf ) "young cow," from Pro
• caldera 英文词源 caldera (n.) "cavity on the summit of a volcano," 1865, from Spanish caldera "cauldron, kettle," from Latin caldarium , caldarius "pertaining to warming," from calidus "warm, hot" (see calorie ). 中文词源 caldera ：破火山口 来自拉丁词calidus, 热的，词源同calorie, 卡路里。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： caldera 词源， caldera 含义。
• calcite 英文词源 calcite (n.) crystalling calcium carbonate, 1849, from German Calcit , coined by Austrian mineralogist Wilhelm Karl von Hardinger (1795-1871) from Latin calx (genitive calcis ) "lime" (see chalk (n.)) + mineral suffix -ite (2) (German -it ). 中文词源 calcite ：方解石 来自词根calc, 小石子。词源同calculate. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： calcit
• calcify 英文词源 calcify (v.) 1785 (implied in calcified ), from French calcifier , from stem of Latin calcem "lime" (see chalk (n.)) + -fy . Related: Calcifying ; calcification . 中文词源 calcify ：钙化 来自calcium，钙。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： calcify 词源， calcify 含义。 calcify ：(使)钙化，(使)硬化  词根词缀： -calc-钙 + -ify动词词尾
• calamitous 英文词源 calamitous (adj.) 1540s, from French calamiteux (16c.), from Latin calamitosus "causing loss, destructive," from calamitas (see calamity ). Related: Calamitously ; calamitousness . 中文词源 calamitous ：灾难性的 来自calamity, 灾难。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： calamitous 词源， calamitous 含义。
• calamine 英文词源 calamine (n.) zinc carbonate; zinc silicate, 1590s, from French calamine , from Old French calemine , chalemine (13c.), from Medieval Latin calamina , corrupted by alchemists from Latin cadmia "zinc ore," from Greek kadmeia (see cadmium ). Or possibly the Medieval Latin word is from Latin calamus "reed," in reference to the mineral's shape. 中文词源 calamine ：炉甘石 改编自拉
• cake 英文词源 cake cake: [13] Originally, cake was a term for a flat round loaf of bread (it is this ‘shape’ element in its meaning that lies behind more modern usages such as ‘cake of soap’). It is not until the 15th century that we find it being applied to foodstuffs we would now recognize as cakes, made with butter, eggs, and some sort of sweetening agent. English borrowed the word from
• Cajun 英文词源 cajun cajun: [19] Cajun , denoting a French-speaking culture of Louisiana, USA, is an alteration of Acadian . Acadia was the name of a French colony in Canada (now Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island) whose inhabitants were driven out by the British in the 18th century and migrated to the southern states of the USA (the source of the original French Acadie is not know
• cairn 英文词源 cairn (n.) 1530s, from Scottish carne , from Gaelic carn "heap of stones, rocky hill," akin to Gaulish karnon "horn," perhaps from PIE *ker-n- "highest part of the body, horn," thus "tip, peak" (see horn (n.)). 中文词源 cairn ：堆石堆 词源同horn, 角。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： cairn 词源， cairn 含义。
• caiman 英文词源 caiman (n.) also cayman , 1570s, from Portuguese or Spanish caiman , from Carib acayouman "crocodile," or perhaps from a Congo African word applied to the reptiles in the new world by African slaves. "The name appears to be one of those like anaconda and bom, boma, which the Portuguese or Spaniards very early caught up in one part of the world, and naturalized in another." [OED] 中文词
• cahoots 英文词源 cahoots (n.) 1829, American English, of unknown origin; said to be perhaps from French cahute "cabin, hut" (12c.), but U.S. sources credit it to French cohorte (see cohort ), a word said to have been in use in the U.S. South and West with a sense of "companions, confederates." 中文词源 cahoots ：结伙欺骗 可能来自cohort的变体。co-, 强调，-hort, 同yard, 院子，同伴
• cagey 英文词源 cagey (adj.) "evasive, reticent," 1896, U.S. colloquial, of unknown origin. Earlier in English dialect it meant "sportive." 中文词源 cagey ：讳莫如深的 词源不详。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： cagey 词源， cagey 含义。
• cage 英文词源 cage cage: [13] English acquired cage via Old French cage from Latin cavea , which meant ‘enclosure for animals, such as a coop, hive, or stall’, and also ‘dungeon’. This is usually referred to Latin cavus ‘hollow’, from which English gets cave and cavern , although not all etymologists agree with this derivation. A Vulgar Latin derivative of cavea , * caveola , was the an
• caffe latte 英文词源 caffè latte "Coffee made with milk, especially hot or steamed milk; a drink of this; (now) specifically a drink made by adding a shot of espresso to a glass or cup of frothy steamed milk", Mid 19th cent.; earliest use found in The Cultivator: a monthly journal for farm and the garden . From Italian caffè latte (dated 1907 in dictionaries), caffelatte , caffellatte from caffè + latt
• caffeine 英文词源 caffeine caffeine: see coffee caffeine (n.) trimethyl-derivative of xanthine, 1830, from German Kaffein , coined by chemist F.F. Runge (1795-1867), apparently from German Kaffee "coffee" (see coffee ) + chemical suffix -ine (2) (German -in ). The form of the English word may be via French caféine . 中文词源 caffeine ：咖啡因 来自cafe, 咖啡。-ine, 化学后缀，见cocain
• caff 英文词源 caff "A cafe", 1930s: representing a pronunciation. 中文词源 caff ：小餐馆 词源同cafe,coffee. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： caff 词源， caff 含义。
• cafeteria 英文词源 cafeteria cafeteria: see coffee cafeteria (n.) 1839, American English, from Mexican Spanish cafeteria "coffee store," from café "coffee" (see coffee ) + Spanish -tería "place where something is done" (usually business). The ending came to be understood popularly as meaning "help-yourself" (as though café + -teria ) and was extended to new formation with that sense from c. 1923. 中文
• cafe 英文词源 café café: see coffee cafe (n.) 1802, from French café "coffee, coffeehouse," from Italian caffe "coffee" (see coffee ). The beverage was introduced in Venice by 1615 and in France from 1650s by merchants and travelers who had been to Turkey and Egypt. The first public café might have been the one opened in Marseilles in 1660. 中文词源 cafe ：咖啡馆，小餐馆 在英语里，
• caesura 英文词源 caesura (n.) 1550s, from Latin caesura , "metrical pause," literally "a cutting," from past participle stem of caedere "to cut down" (see -cide ). 中文词源 caesura ：音顿 来自词根cid, 词源同decide, circumcise. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： caesura 词源， caesura 含义。
• caesium 英文词源 caesium (n.) see cesium . 中文词源 caesium ：铯 来自拉丁词caesius, 天蓝色，词源同cerulean, 天蓝的。因该金属元素在光谱仪里面呈蓝色而得名。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： caesium 词源， caesium 含义。
• Caesarean 英文词源 caesarean see caesarian . 中文词源 Caesarean ：剖腹产 据说Caesar是剖腹产而得名，但是在当时的医疗条件下，剖腹产就宣判母亲死亡，而凯撒母亲据历史记载活了很多年，因而这种说法被否决。更可信服的是该词来自词根cid, 词源同decide, circumcise. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： Caesarean 词源，
• Caesar 英文词源 Caesar c. 1200, see caesarian ; Old English had casere , which would have yielded modern *coser , but it was replaced in Middle English by keiser , from Norse or Low German, and later in Middle English by the French or Latin form of the name. Cæsar was used as a title of emperors down to Hadrian (138 C.E.), and also is the root of German Kaiser and Russian tsar (see czar ). He compet
• caecum 英文词源 caecum (n.) 1721, from Latin intestinum caecum "blind gut," from neuter of caecus "blind, hidden," from Proto-Italic *kaiko- , from PIE *kehi-ko- "one-eyed," cognate with Old Irish ca'ech "one-eyed," coeg "empty," Welsh coeg-dall , Old Cornish cuic "one-eyed;" Gothic haihs "one-eyed, blind." So called for being prolonged into a cul-de-sac. 中文词源 caecum ：盲肠 来自词根cae
• cadre 英文词源 cadre cadre: see quarter cadre (n.) 1830, from French cadre , literally "a frame of a picture" (16c.), so, "a detachment forming the skeleton of a regiment" (1851), from Italian quadro , from Latin quadrum "a square" (see quadrille ). The communist sense is from 1930. 中文词源 cadre ：干部 词源同quarter, four, 原指四方形的画框，后用来表示干部。字母c,f,q音变
• Cadillac 英文词源 Cadillac (n.) Cadillac Automobile Company, established in 1902 by Detroit engine-maker Henry Martyn Leland and named for Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac (1658-1730), French minor aristocrat and colonial governor who founded Detroit in 1701. 中文词源 Cadillac ：凯迪拉克 美国底特律城汽车公司，以17世纪原底特律总督法国殖民者Antoine Mother Cadillac 命名。 该
• cadenza 英文词源 cadenza (n.) "ornamental passage near the close of a song or solo," 1836, from Italian cadenza (see cadence ). 中文词源 cadenza ：华彩乐章 同cadence，抑扬顿挫。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： cadenza 词源， cadenza 含义。
• cadence 英文词源 cadence (n.) late 14c., "flow of rhythm in verse or music," from Middle French cadence , from Old Italian cadenza "conclusion of a movement in music," literally "a falling," from Vulgar Latin *cadentia , from neuter plural of Latin cadens , present participle of cadere "to fall" (see case (n.1)). In 16c., sometimes used literally for "an act of falling." A doublet of chance (n.). 中文
• caddy 英文词源 caddy caddy: [18] Caddy comes ultimately from Malay katī , which was a measure of weight equal to about 0.6 kilos or 1½ pounds: it was thus originally ‘container which holds one caddy of tea’. English acquired the word in the 16th century as catty , and it is not altogether clear where the - dd - spelling came from. It has no connection with the golfer’s caddie (see CADET). ca
• caddie 英文词源 caddie (n.) 1630s, Scottish form of French cadet (see cadet ). Originally "person who runs errands;" meaning of "golfer's assistant" is 1851. A letter from Edinburgh c. 1730 describes the city's extensive and semi-organized "Cawdys, a very useful Black-Guard, who attend ... publick Places to go at Errands; and though they are Wretches, that in Rags lye upon the Stairs and in the Stree
• cadaver 英文词源 cadaver cadaver: [16] Cadaver literally means ‘something that has fallen over’. It is a derivative of the Latin verb cadere ‘fall’ (from which English gets a wide range of other words, from case to accident ). Its application to ‘dead body’ arises from the metaphorical use of the Latin verb for ‘die’. = accident , cadence , case cadaver (n.) c. 1500, from Latin cadaver
• cad 英文词源 cad cad: see cadet cad (n.) 1730, shortening of cadet (q.v.); originally used of servants, then (1831) of town boys by students at British universities and public schools (though at Cambridge it meant "snob"). Meaning "person lacking in finer feelings" is from 1838. A cad used to be a jumped-up member of the lower classes who was guilty of behaving as if he didn't know that his lowly
• cactus 英文词源 cactus cactus: [17] Cactus comes via Latin from Greek káktos , which was the name of the cardoon, a plant of the thistle family with edible leafstalks. Cactus originally had that meaning in English too, and it was not until the 18th century that the Swedish botanist Linnaeus applied the term to a family of similarly prickly plants. cactus (n.) c. 1600, from Latin cactus "cardoon," fr
• cackle 英文词源 cackle cackle: see cheek cackle (v.) early 13c., imitative (see cachinnation ); perhaps partly based on Middle Dutch kake "jaw." Related: Cackled ; cackling . As a noun from 1670s. Cackleberries , slang for "eggs" is first recorded 1880. 中文词源 cackle ：咯咯叫 拟声词，模仿公鸡的叫声。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： cackle 词源， cackle 含
• cack 英文词源 cack "act of voiding excrement; to void excrement," mid-15c., from Latin cacare (see caca ). Related: Cacked ; cacking . 中文词源 cack ：屎 来自PIE *kakke, 排便。可能来自拟声词。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： cack 词源， cack 含义。
• cachet 英文词源 cachet cachet: [17] Cachet was a Scottish borrowing of a French word which originally meant ‘seal affixed to a letter or document’. In the 19th century this developed into the figurative ‘personal stamp, distinguishing characteristic’, which, through its use in the context of distinguished or fashionable people or things, has come to mean ‘prestige’. The original notion co
• cacao 英文词源 cacao (n.) seed from which cocoa and chocolate are made, 1550s, from Spanish cacao , from Nahuatl (Aztecan) cacaua , root form of cacahuatl "bean of the cocoa-tree." 中文词源 cacao ：可可豆 来自南美土著语，词源同cocoa, chocolate。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： cacao 词源， cacao 含义。
• cabriolet 英文词源 cabriolet (n.) "light two-wheeled chaise," 1766, from French cabriolet (18c.), derivative of cabriole (see cab ). So called from its light, leaping motion. 中文词源 cabriolet ：敞蓬马车 cab原型。来自拉丁词caper, 山羊，形容这种马车的轻快。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： cabriolet 词源， cabriolet 含义。
• caboose 英文词源 caboose (n.) 1747, "ship's cookhouse," from Middle Dutch kambuis "ship's galley," from Low German kabhuse "wooden cabin on ship's deck;" probably a compound whose elements correspond to English cabin and house (n.). Railroading sense is by 1859. 中文词源 caboose ：守车 来自cabin和house的合成词。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： caboose 词源， ca
• caboodle 英文词源 caboodle (n.) c. 1848, see kit . 中文词源 caboodle ：全体 来自kit 和bundle的合成词。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： caboodle 词源， caboodle 含义。
• cable 英文词源 cable cable: [13] The ultimate source of cable is late Latin capulum ‘lasso’, a derivative of the verb capere ‘take, seize’, either directly or perhaps via Arabic habl . In Provençal, capulum became cable , which produced the Old French form chable : so English must either have borrowed the word straight from Provençal, or from * cable , an unrecorded Anglo-Norman variant of
• cabin 英文词源 cabin cabin: [14] English acquired cabin from Old French cabane , which had it via Provençal cabana from late Latin capanna or cavanna ‘hut, cabin’. Surprisingly, despite their formal and semantic similarity, which has grown closer together over the centuries, cabin has no ultimate connection with cabinet [16], whose immediate source is French cabinet [16], whose immediate source
• cabbalisstic 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random piscatorial piscatorial: see fish 中文词源 cabbalisstic ：神秘的 词源同cabal, Cabala. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： cabbalisstic 词源， cabbalisstic 含义。
• cabaret 英文词源 cabaret (n.) 1650s, "tavern, bar, little inn," from French cabaret , originally "tavern" (13c.), which is of uncertain origin, perhaps from Middle Dutch cambret , from Old French (Picard dialect) camberete , diminutive of cambre "chamber" (see chamber (n.)). The word was "somewhat naturalized" in this sense [OED]. It was borrowed again from French with a meaning "a restaurant/night cl
• Cabala 英文词源 cabala (n.) 1670s, variant of cabbala . Related: Cabalist . 中文词源 Cabala ：犹太神秘哲学 来自希伯来语，义为神秘的，词源同cabal. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： Cabala 词源， Cabala 含义。
• C 英文词源 C third letter of the alphabet. Alphabetic writing came to Rome via the southern Etruscan "Caeretan" script, in which gamma was written as a crescent. Early Romans made little use of Greek kappa and used gamma for both the "g" and "k" sounds, the latter more frequently, so that the "k" sound came to be seen as the proper one for gamma . To restore a dedicated symbol for the "g" sound,
• contra 英文词源 contra mid-14c., from Latin contra (prep. and adv.) "against," originally "in comparison with," ablative singular feminine of *com-teros , from Old Latin com "with, together" (see com- ) + -tr , zero degree of the comparative suffix -ter- . Contra (n.) 1981, "anti-Sandinista Nicaraguan," short for Spanish contrarrevolucionario "counter-revolutionary." 中文词源 contra ：对应，相
• con- 英文词源 con- word-forming element meaning "together, with," sometimes merely intensive; the form of com- used in Latin before consonants except -b-, -p-, -l-, -m- , or -r- . In native English formations (such as costar ), co- tends to be used where Latin would use con- . 中文词源 con- ：一起 来自PIE * kom, 旁边，靠近，一起，词源同拉丁词cum, 及；古英语前缀ge- , 一
• chandelier 英文词源 chandelier (n.) late 14c., chaundeler "candlestick, chandelier," from Old French chandelier (n.1), 12c., earlier chandelabre "candlestick, candelabrum" (10c.), from Latin candelabrum , from candela "candle" (see candle ). Re-spelled mid-18c. in French fashion; during 17c. the French spelling referred to a military device. 中文词源 chandelier ：垂吊灯，枝形吊灯 发音释义：
• cacophony 英文词源 cacophony (n.) 1650s, from Greek kakophonia , from kakophonos "harsh sounding," from kakos "bad, evil" (see caco- ) + phone "voice, sound," from PIE root *bha- (2) "to speak, tell, say" (see fame (n.)). Related: Cacophonous . 中文词源 cacophony ：不和谐的声音 发音释义：[kə'kɑfəni] n.不和谐的声音；刺耳的声音 结构分析：cacophony = caco（坏的）+pho