英语词源

• banal 英文词源 banal (adj.) "trite, commonplace," 1840, from French banal , "belonging to a manor, common, hackneyed, commonplace," from Old French banel "communal" (13c.), from ban "decree; legal control; announcement; authorization; payment for use of a communal oven, mill, etc." (see ban (v.)). The modern sense evolved from the word's use in designating things like ovens or mills that belonged to
• bigwig 英文词源 bigwig bigwig: see wig bigwig (n.) 1731, from big + wig , in reference to the imposing wigs formerly worn by men of rank or authority. 中文词源 bigwig （大人物）：假发越大，地位越高 在十八世纪的欧洲，很多社会上流人士喜欢佩戴假发（wig）。据说法国国王路易十三是始作俑者。由于在当时，满头浓发被看作是男性力量的表
• banquet 英文词源 banquet (n.) late 15c., "feast, sumptuous entertainment," from French banquet (15c.; in Old French only "small bench"), from Old Italian banchetto , diminutive of banco "bench;" originally a snack eaten on a bench (rather than at table), hence "a slight repast between meals;" the meaning has entirely reversed. As a verb from 1510s. 中文词源 banquet （宴会）：西方请客时摆在
• barbecue 英文词源 barbecue barbecue: [17] Barbecue originated in the language of the now extinct Taino people of the West Indies. It first emerges in the Haitian creole term barbacoa , which meant simply ‘wooden framework’ (used for other purposes than roasting meat – for example, as a bed). American Spanish adopted the word, and passed it on to English. Compare BUCCANEER. barbecue (n.) 1650s, "f
• bridal 英文词源 bridal (adj.) mid-15c., transferred use of noun bridal "wedding feast," Old English brydealo "marriage feast," from bryd ealu , literally "bride ale" (see bride + ale ); second element later confused with suffix -al (1), especially after c. 1600. 中文词源 bridal （婚礼）：以卖酒为由头收取礼金的英国传统婚宴 英语单词bridal含有两个意思，一个是bride（
• board 英文词源 board board: [OE] Old English bord had a wide range of meanings, whose two main strands (‘plank’ and ‘border, side of a ship’) reveal that it came from two distinct sources: Germanic * bortham and * borthaz respectively (despite their similarity, they have not been shown to be the same word). Related forms in other Germanic languages that point up the dichotomy are Dutch bord ‘
• bastard 英文词源 bastard bastard: [13] The idea underlying the word bastard appears to be that of a child born of an impromptu sexual encounter on an improvised bed, for it seems to echo Old French fils de bast , literally ‘packsaddle son’, that is, one conceived on a packsaddle pillow. If this is the case, the word goes back to medieval Latin bastum ‘packsaddle’, whose ultimate source was Gre
• blackguard 英文词源 blackguard (n.) 1530s, scullion, kitchen knave. Perhaps once an actual military or guard unit; more likely originally a mock-military reference to scullions and kitchen-knaves of noble households, of black-liveried personal guards, and of shoeblacks. By 1736, sense had emerged of "one of the criminal class." Hence the adjectival use (1784), "of low or worthless character." 中文词源
• broker 英文词源 broker broker: [14] Broker has no connection with the past tense of break . It comes from Anglo- Norman brocour ‘small trader’, but its ultimate origin is not clear. A variant Anglo-Norman form abrocour has fuelled speculation as to a link with Spanish alboroque ‘sealing of a bargain’ and Portuguese alborcar ‘barter’, which are presumably of Arabic origin (the al represent
• bachelor 英文词源 bachelor bachelor: [13] The ultimate origins of bachelor are obscure, but by the time it first turned up, in Old French bacheler (from a hypothetical Vulgar Latin * baccalāris ), it meant ‘squire’ or ‘young knight in the service of an older knight’. This was the sense it had when borrowed into English, and it is preserved, in fossilized form, in knight bachelor . Subsequent s
• barber 英文词源 barber barber: see beard barber (n.) c. 1300, from Anglo-French barbour (attested as a surname from early 13c.), from Old French barbeor, barbieor (Modern French barbier , which has a more restricted sense than the English word), from Vulgar Latin *barbatorem , from Latin barba "beard" (see barb (n.)). Originally also regular practitioners of surgery, they were restricted to haircutti
• beggar 英文词源 beggar (n.) c. 1200, from Old French begart , originally a member of the Beghards , lay brothers of mendicants in the Low Countries, from Middle Dutch beggaert "mendicant," of uncertain origin, with pejorative suffix (see -ard ). Compare Beguine . Early folk etymology connected the English word with bag . Form with -ar attested from 14c., but begger was more usual 15c.-17c. The femini
• bromide 英文词源 bromide bromide: [19] Potassium bromide is used as a sedative, and it was that which inspired the American humorist Gelett Burgess’s book Are You A Bromide ? (1906), in which he metaphoricized bromide as a ‘dull conventional person’. In British English it is the more abstract figurative sense ‘trite or conventional remark’ that has caught on. Bromide was based on bromine [19
• biscuit 英文词源 biscuit biscuit: [14] Biscuit means literally ‘twicecooked’ – from the method of cooking, in which the biscuits are returned to the oven after the initial period of baking in order to become dry or crisp. The original source of the word was probably a medieval Latin * biscoctus , from bis ‘twice’ and coctus ‘cooked’, the past participle of coquere (which is related to En
• blanket 英文词源 blanket (n.) c. 1300, "bed-clothing; white woolen stuff," from Old French blanchet "light wool or flannel cloth; an article made of this material," diminutive of blanc "white" (see blank (adj.), which had a secondary sense of "a white cloth." Wet blanket (1830) is from the notion of a person who throws a damper on social situations like a wet blanket smothers a fire. In U.S. history,
• bend 英文词源 bend bend: [OE] English band , bind , bond , and bundle are closely allied: all go back to a prehistoric Germanic base * band -. The relationship in meaning was, in the case of bend , more obvious in Old English times, when bendan meant ‘tie up’ as well as ‘curve’ (a sense preserved in the modern English noun bend ‘knot’, as in carrick bend ). The rather strange-seeming me
• book 英文词源 book book: [OE] Book is widespread throughout the Germanic languages. German has buch , for example, Dutch bock , and Swedish bok . There point to a prehistoric Germanic * bōks , which was probably related to * bōkā ‘beech’, the connection being that the early Germanic peoples used beechwood tablets for writing runic inscriptions on. The original meaning of the word in Old Engl
• bellwether 英文词源 bellwether (n.) mid-14c. (late 13c. in Anglo-Latin; late 12c. as a surname), from bell (n.) + wether ; the lead sheep (on whose neck a bell was hung) of a domesticated flock. Figurative sense of "chief, leader" is from mid-14c. 中文词源 bellwether （领头羊）：系铃铛的公羊 中文中有“领头羊”的说法，英语中也有个对应单词bellwether。该单词由bell（
• bead 英文词源 bead bead: [13] The word bead originally meant ‘prayer’. It comes ultimately from Germanic * beth -, source also of English bid . This passed into Old English as gebed , which by the 13th century had lost its prefix to become bede . (German has the parallel gebet ‘prayer’.) The modern sense ‘small pierced decorative ball’ developed in the 14th century, from the use of a st
• breakfast 英文词源 breakfast breakfast: [15] Breakfast is the first food one eats in the morning, thereby literally ‘breaking’ the night’s ‘fast’. The word is first recorded in a text of 1463: ‘Expenses in breakfast, xj d ’. It is a lexicalization of the phrase ‘break one’s fast’, which itself seems to have originated in the 14th century. breakfast (n.) mid-15c., from break (v.) + fa
• babel 英文词源 babel babel: [14] According to Genesis 11: 1–9, the tower of Babel was built in Shinar by the descendants of Noah in an attempt to reach heaven. Angered at their presumption, God punished the builders by making them unable to understand each other’s speech: hence, according to legend, the various languages of the world. Hence, too, the metaphorical application of babel to a ‘con
• bonfire 英文词源 bonfire bonfire: [14] A bonfire was originally a fire in which bones were burned. References to such (presumably rather evil-smelling) fires, which were large open air affairs, continue down to the 18th century, but latterly they have a distinctly antiquarian air, as if such things were a thing of the past. By the later 15th century the word was already passing to the more general mod
• bless 英文词源 bless bless: [OE] Bless occurs in no other language than English, and originally meant ‘mark with blood’, from some sort of religious rite in which such marking conferred sanctity. It probably goes back to a prehistoric Germanic formation * blōthisōjan , a derivative of * blōtham ‘blood’, which was taken up by no Germanic language other than Old English. Here it produced blē
• abbess 英文词源 abbess (n.) c. 1300, abbese , from Old French abbesse , from Late Latin abbatissa , fem. of abbas (see abbot ). Replaced earlier abbotess . 中文词源 abbess ：女修道院院长 来自希腊语 abbas，来自亚拉姆语 abba（阿爸、神父），很显然这是一个拟声词，由于修道院是为天主教培训神父的学院，而该词就表示修道院的女性院长，即：
• Austria 英文词源 Austria European nation, from Medieval Latin Marchia austriaca "eastern borderland." German Österreich is "eastern kingdom," from Old High German ostar "eastern" (see east ) + reich (see Reichstag ). So called for being on the eastern edge of Charlemagne's empire. 中文词源 Austria （奥地利）：法兰克王国的东方边疆 奥地利位于德国东南方位，公元788年查理
• Afghanistan 英文词源 Afghan name of the people of Afghanistan, technically only correctly applied to the Durani Afghans; Old Afghan chronicles trace the name to an Afghana , son of Jeremiah, son of Israelite King Saul, from whom they claimed descent, but this is a legend. The name is first attested in Arabic in al-'Utbi's "History of Sultan Mahmud" written c.1030 C.E. and was in use in India from 13c. Att
• Aquarius 英文词源 Aquarius faint constellation and 11th zodiac sign, late Old English, from Latin aquarius , literally "water carrier," properly an adjective, "pertaining to water" (see aquarium ); a loan-translation of Greek Hydrokhoos "the water-pourer," old Greek name of this constellation. Aquarians were a former Christian sect that used water instead of wine at the Lord's Supper. Age of Aquarius (
• Atlantic Ocean 英文词源 atlas atlas: [16] In Greek mythology, Atlas was a Titan who as a punishment for rebelling against the gods was forced to carry the heavens on his shoulders. Hence when the term was first used in English it was applied to a ‘supporter’: ‘I dare commend him to all that know him, as the Atlas of Poetry’, Thomas Nashe on Robert Greene’s Menaphon 1589. In the 16th century it was
• Arctic Ocean 英文词源 Dead Sea mid-13c., from dead (adj.) + sea ; its water is 26 percent salt (as opposed to 3 or 4 percent in most oceans) and supports practically no life. In the Bible it was the "Salt Sea" (Hebrew yam hammelah ), also "Sea of the Plain" and "East Sea." In Arabic it is al-bahr al-mayyit "Dead Sea." The ancient Greeks knew it as he Thalassa asphaltites "the Asphaltite Sea." Latin Mare Mo
• Anaheim 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random prime prime: [OE] Latin prīmus ‘first’ came from an earlier * prīsmo -, which went back ultimately to Indo-European * pro ‘before, in front’ (ancestor also of English first ). English first acquired it direct from Latin in the Anglo-Saxon period as an ecclesiastical term for the earliest of the canonical hours, and thi
• Allegheny Plateau 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random paparazzi paparazzi: [20] In Federico Fellini’s film La Dolce Vita (1959), a press photographer who pesters celebrities is called Paparazzo (the name was supplied by the writer of the film’s scenario, Ennio Flaiano, who in turn got it from Sulle Rive dello Ionio (1957), Margherita Guidacci’s translation of George Gissing’
• Arkansas 英文词源 Arkansas organized as a U.S. territory 1819 (admitted as a state 1836), named for the Arkansas River, which was named for a Siouan tribe. The spelling of the term represents a French plural, Arcansas , of a name applied to the Quapaw people who lived on the Arkansas River; their name was also written in early times as Akancea, Acansea, Acansa (Dickinson, 1995). This was not the name u
• Alaska 英文词源 Alaska name first applied 18c. by Russian explorers, from Aleut alaxsxaq , literally "the object toward which the action of the sea is directed" [Bright]. Baked Alaska attested by 1896, so called either for its whiteness or from being cold inside. 中文词源 Alaska ：阿拉斯加州 来自阿留申语中的一个词，原写作Alaschka，意思为“广袤的大地”。因为对于生
• Alabama 英文词源 Alabama created and named as a U.S. territory 1817 by a division of Mississippi Territory; ultimately named for one of the native peoples who lived there, who speak Muskogean. Their name probably is from a Choctaw term meaning "plant-cutters." Related: Alabamian . 中文词源 Alabama ：阿拉巴马州（美国州名） Alabama，又译亚拉巴马州。出自于美国西南印第安人
• Antwerp 英文词源 Antwerp port city in Belgium, French Anvers , from a Germanic compound of *anda "at" + *werpum "wharf" (see wharf ). Folk etymology connects the first word with hand . 中文词源 Antwerp ：安特卫普（比利时北部的港口城市） 对比地图可以看到这座港口城市在北海岸边，所以实际上它的名字Antwerp中，ant-这个部分同at，即位于，而-werp这个
• apathetic 英文词源 apathetic (adj.) 1744, from apathy + -ic , on model of pathetic . 中文词源 apathetic ：无感情的，冷淡的；无兴趣的，无动于衷的 词根词缀： a-否定 + -path-痛苦,激情 + -etic形容词词尾 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： apathetic 词源， apathetic 含义。
• aboriginal 英文词源 aboriginal (adj.) 1660s, "first, earliest," especially in reference to inhabitants of lands colonized by Europeans, from aborigines (see aborigine ) + -al (1); specific Australian sense is from 1820. The noun is attested from 1767. Related: Aboriginally . 中文词源 aboriginal ：原始的；土著的；本地居民的 来源于拉丁语短语ab origine(从开始)。 词根词缀：
• anchorman 英文词源 anchorman (n.) "last man of a tug-of-war team," 1909, from anchor + man (n.). Later, "one who runs last in a relay race" (1934). Transferred sense "host or presenter of a TV or radio program" is from 1958. 中文词源 anchorman ：末棒运动员；新闻节目主持人 本意是拔河时绳子最末端的人，一般都选大胖子，起“定海神针”的作用。anchor是抛入海
• autoptic 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random peat peat: see piece 中文词源 autoptic ：现场验证的，亲眼看到的 词根词缀： auto-自己(o略) + -opt-视 + -ic形容词词尾 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： autoptic 词源， autoptic 含义。
• autonomist 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random sash sash: The sash you wear [16] and the sash that goes in a window [17] are distinct words. The former comes from Arabic shāsh ‘turban’, and that is exactly how English first acquired it: ‘All of them wear on their heads white shashes and turbans, the badge of their religion’, George Sandys, Travels 1615. But the Arab
• astronomer 英文词源 astronomer (n.) late 14c., from astronomy (q.v.), replacing French import astronomyen (c. 1300), which, had it survived, probably would have yielded *astronomian . Still in Shakespeare used in places where we would write astrologer . 中文词源 astronomer ：天文学者；天文学家 词根词缀： -astr-星 + -o-中缀 + -nom-学科,学术,法则 + -er名词词尾,人 该词的英
• antinomy 英文词源 antinomy (n.) 1590s, "contradiction in the laws," from Latin antinomia , from Greek antinomia "ambiguity in the law," from anti- "against" (see anti- ) + nomos "law" (see numismatics ). As a term in logic, from 1802 (Kant). 中文词源 antinomy ：法律上的自相矛盾，两种法律间的矛盾；两种表面上“合理”的原则之间的矛盾；自相矛盾的话；[哲]二律
• anthroponomy 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random remind remind: [17] Remind is an English coinage. It was formed, apparently in the 1640s, from the prefix re - and the verb mind , in the sense ‘remember’ (now restricted to Scottish English). It may have been modelled on the now obsolete rememorate , which came from the same Latin source as English remember . It was origina
• anonym 英文词源 anonym (n.) 1812, "nameless person," from French anonyme , from Latin anonymus , from Greek anonymos "without a name" (see anonymous ). Meaning "fictitious name" is recorded from 1866. 中文词源 anonym ：匿名者，无名氏 词根词缀： an-无,不 + -onym-名 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： anonym 词源， anonym 含义。
• annotator 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random hessian hessian: [19] In common with many other sorts of textile, such as denim, jersey, and worsted, hessian’s name reveals its place of origin. In this case it was Hesse, formerly a grand duchy, nowadays a state of West Germany, in the western central part of the country. 中文词源 annotator ：注解者；注释者 词根词
• agronomic 英文词源 agronomy (n.) "science of land management for crop production," 1814, from French agronomie , from Greek agronomos "overseer of land," from agros "field" (see acre ) + -nomos "law or custom, administering," related to nemein "manage" (see numismatic ). Related: Agronomist ; agronomic . 中文词源 agronomic ：农艺学的，农事的 词根词缀： -agr-田地 + -o-中缀 + -nom-学科
• aeroneurosis 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random herpetology herpetology: see serpent 中文词源 aeroneurosis ：航空神经症；(飞行员的)神经机能病，高空神经官能症 词根词缀： -aer-空气 + -o- + -neur-神经 + -osis名词词尾,跟医学相关 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： aeroneurosis 词源， aeroneurosis 含义。
• adoptive 英文词源 adoptive (adj.) early 15c., from Middle French adoptif , from Latin adoptivus "pertaining to adoption," from stem of adoptere (see adopt ). 中文词源 adoptive ：采用[纳]的；收养的；假冒的；适于采用的 词根词缀： ad-来,临近 + -opt-选择 + -ive形容词词尾 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： adoptive 词源， adoptive 含义。
• adoption 英文词源 adoption (n.) mid-14c., from Old French adopcion or directly from Latin adoptionem (nominative adoptio ), noun of action from past participle stem of adoptare "chose for oneself, take by choice, select, adopt," especially "to take into a family, adopt as a child," from ad- "to" (see ad- ) + optare "choose, wish, desire" (see option (n.)). 中文词源 adoption ：采用，采取，选用
• adoptable 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random pagoda pagoda: [17] The immediate source of pagoda was Portuguese pagoda , but this is generally assumed to have been an adaptation of Persian butkada , a compound put together from but ‘idol’ and kada ‘dwelling, temple’. Its form was no doubt influenced by bhagodī , a word for ‘holy’ in the vernacular languages of
• abnormity 英文词源 abnormity "An abnormal feature, characteristic, or occurrence", Mid 18th century: from late Latin abnormitas , from abnormis 'monstrous', from ab- 'away, from' + norma (see norm ). 中文词源 abnormity ：异常，不规则，异形 词根词缀： ab-分离,脱离 + -norm-正规,常规 + -ity名词词尾,性质或状态 → 离开常规的 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英
• abnormality 英文词源 abnormality (n.) "quality of being abnormal," 1854; "abnormal feature or quality," 1859, from abnormal + -ity . Earlier as abnormity (1731). 中文词源 abnormality ：(身体、行为等)不正常，反常，变态，畸形；(常用复数)反常情况；畸形物 词根词缀： ab-分离,脱离 + -norm-正规,常规 + -al形容词词尾 + -ity名词词尾,行为,性质,状态 → 离
• aviculture 英文词源 aviculture (n.) 1876, from French aviculture , from Latin avis "bird" (see aviary ) + Latin cultura "cultivation" (see culture ). 中文词源 aviculture ：养鸟，鸟类饲养  词根词缀： -avi-鸟 + -cult-耕种,培育 + -ure名词词尾 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： aviculture 词源， aviculture 含义。
• avian 英文词源 avian (adj.) "pertaining to birds," 1870, from Latin avis "bird" (see aviary ) + -an . 中文词源 avian ：鸟的，鸟类的 词根词缀： -avi-鸟 + -an形容词词尾 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： avian 词源， avian 含义。
• automotive 英文词源 automotive (adj.) 1865, in reference to some sort of helicopter-like device, a hybrid from auto- "self," from Greek, + motive (adj.), from Latin. Meaning "pertaining to automobiles" is from 1898. 中文词源 automotive ：自动的，机动的 词根词缀： auto-自己 + -mot-移动 + -ive形容词词尾 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： automotive 词源， au
• automate 英文词源 automate (v.) "to convert to automatic operation," 1954, back-formation from automated (q.v.). Ancient Greek verb automatizein meant "to act of oneself, to act unadvisedly." Related: Automating . 中文词源 automate ：自动化   来源于希腊语automat.os(自动的,自思的)。 词根词缀： auto-自己 + mat移动 + -e 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：
• autography 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random morganatic morganatic: [18] A morganatic marriage is one between people of different social status, in which the rank and entitlements of the higherstatus partner are not shared by the lower or their offspring. The word morganatic is a survival of an ancient Germanic marriage custom. On the morning after the wedding night, after
• autogenous 英文词源 autogenous (adj.) "self-generated," 1846, earlier autogeneal (1650s), from Greek autogenes "self-produced," from autos "self" (see auto- ) + genes "formation, creation" (see genus ). Modern form and biological use of the word said to have been coined by English paleontologist Richard Owen (1804-1892). 中文词源 autogenous ：自生的   词根词缀： auto-自己 + -gen-生殖,出
• autocycle 英文词源 autograph autograph: [17] Greek auto - was a prefixal use of the adjective autós , meaning ‘same, self’. Many of the commonest auto - words in English, including autograph itself and also autocrat [19], automatic [18] (a derivative of automaton [17], which was formed from a hypothetical base * men - ‘think’ related to mental and mind ), autonomy [17], and autopsy [17] (origin
• autocratic 英文词源 autocratic (adj.) 1823, from French autocratique , from autocrate , from Greek autokrates (see autocrat ). Earlier autocratoric (1670s) was directly from Greek autokratorikos . Autocratical is attested from 1801. 中文词源 autocratic ：独裁的，专制的 词根词缀： auto-自己 + -crat-统治 + -ic形容词词尾 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： autocr
• autobiographer 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random fume fume: [14] Fume comes via Old French fum from Latin fūmus ‘smoke, steam’. This in turn went back to a prehistoric Indo-European * dhūmo -, which also produced Sanskrit dhūmás ‘smoke’ and Russian and Polish dym ‘smoke’. The word’s verbal use, ‘be very angry’, comes, like seethe , from the notion of bein
• aurist 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random gypsum gypsum: [17] The word gypsum originated among the Semitic languages, with a relative or ancestor of Arabic jibs and Hebrew gephes ‘plaster’. Greek adopted this unknown form as gúpsos , which passed into Latin as gypsum . (An Italian descendant of gypsum is gesso ‘plaster’, borrowed by English in the 16th century
• auriscope 英文词源 auriscope "Another term for otoscope", Mid 19th century: from Latin auris 'ear' + -scope. 中文词源 auriscope ：(检查耳朵用的)耳镜  词根词缀： -aur-耳 + -i- + -scop-观察,镜 + -e 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： auriscope 词源， auriscope 含义。
• aurinasal 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random hale hale: see whole 中文词源 aurinasal ：耳鼻的   词根词缀： -aur-耳 + -i- + -nas-鼻 + -al形容词词尾 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： aurinasal 词源， aurinasal 含义。
• auriform 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random egregious egregious: see segregate 中文词源 auriform ：耳状的，耳形的 词根词缀： -aur-耳 + -i- + -form-形 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： auriform 词源， auriform 含义。
• auricular 英文词源 auricular (adj.) 1540s, "auditory" (originally of confessions), from Medieval Latin auricularis , from Latin auricula (see auricle ). Meaning "pertaining to the ear" is from 1640s. 中文词源 auricular ：耳的；听觉的 词根词缀： -aur-耳 + -i- + -cular形容词词尾 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： auricular 词源， auricular 含义。
• auditory 英文词源 auditory (adj.) 1570s, from Latin auditorius "pertaining to hearing," from auditor "hearer" (see auditor ). 中文词源 auditory ：听觉的，听觉器官的   词根词缀： -aud-听 + -it名词词尾 + -or名词词尾,人 + -y形容词词尾 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： auditory 词源， auditory 含义。
• auditorial 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random cutaneous cutaneous: see hide 中文词源 auditorial ：会计检查(官)的；审计的；审计员的 词根词缀： -aud-听 + -it名词词尾 + -or名词词尾,人 + -ial形容词词尾 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： auditorial 词源， auditorial 含义。
• audiometry 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random nest nest: [OE] Etymologically, a nest is a place for ‘sitting down’. It is a very ancient word, and traces its history all the way back to Indo- European * nizdo -, a compound formed from * ni ‘down’ (source of English beneath and nether ) and * sed - (ancestor of English sit ). From it came English nest (a word shared
• audiology 英文词源 audiology (n.) science of hearing and treatment of deafness, 1946, from audio- + -ology . Related: Audiologist . 中文词源 audiology ：听力学(主要研究对听力受损者的治疗方法) 词根词缀： -audi-听 + -o- + -logy名词词尾,…学(科) 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： audiology 词源， audiology 含义。
• astrodynamics 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random abridge abridge: see brief 中文词源 astrodynamics ：天文动力学，宇宙飞行力学  词根词缀： -astr-星 + -o- + -dynam-力 + -ics名词词尾,…学 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： astrodynamics 词源， astrodynamics 含义。
• astrocompass 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random segregate segregate: [16] The etymological idea underlying segregate is of ‘removal from a flock’. The word comes from Latin sēgregāre , a compound verb formed from the prefix sē - ‘apart’ and grex ‘flock’ (source also of English aggregate , congregation , egregious [16], and gregarious [17]). = aggregate , congre
• artisan 英文词源 artisan (n.) 1530s, from Italian artesano , from Vulgar Latin artitianus , from Latin artitus , past participle of artire "to instruct in the arts," from ars (genitive artis ) "art" (see art (n.)). Barnhart reports Middle French artisan , often listed as the direct source of the English word, is attested too late to be so. artisan (adj.) 1859, from artisan (n.). 中文词源 artisan ：
• articulation 英文词源 articulation (n.) early 15c., "a joint or joining; setting of bones," from Old French articulation , from Medieval Latin articulationem (nominative articulatio ) "separation into joints," noun of action from past participle stem of articulare "to separate (meat) into joints," also "to utter distinctly," from articulus , diminutive of artus "joint" (see article ). 中文词源 articula
• articular 英文词源 articular (adj.) from Latin articularis "pertaining to the joints," from articulus (see articulate (v.)). 中文词源 articular ：关节的 词根词缀： -art-关节 + -i- + -cular形容词词尾 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： articular 词源， articular 含义。
• arthrotomy 英文词源 arthrotomy "Incision into or opening of a joint; an instance of this", Late 19th cent. From arthro- + -tomy , after French arthrotomie . 中文词源 arthrotomy ：关节切开(术) 词根词缀： -arthr-关节 + -o- + -tom-切,割 + -y名词词尾 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： arthrotomy 词源， arthrotomy 含义。
• arthrosis 英文词源 arthrosis " Anatomy . Articulation (of bones), specifically by a joint which permits movement; an instance of this; a joint of this kind. Compare earlier diarthrosis, enarthrosis, synarthrosis. Now rare ", Mid 17th cent.; earliest use found in Nicholas Culpeper (1616–1654), physician and astrologer. From post-classical Latin arthrosis from Hellenistic Greek ἄρθρωσις compact
• arrogant 英文词源 arrogant arrogant: [14] Etymologically, to be arrogant is to make great claims about oneself. It originated in the Latin compound verb arrogāre ‘claim for oneself’, formed from the prefix ad - ‘to’ and rogāre ‘ask’ (as in English interrogate ). Already in Latin the present participle arrogāns was being used adjectivally, for ‘overbearing’, and this passed via Old Fr
• arrogance 英文词源 arrogance (n.) c. 1300, from Old French arrogance (12c.), from Latin arrogantia , from arrogantem (nominative arrogans ) "assuming, overbearing, insolent," present participle of arrogare "to claim for oneself, assume," from ad- "to" (see ad- ) + rogare "ask, propose" (see rogation ). 中文词源 arrogance ：傲慢，自大   来源于拉丁语中由前缀ad-(来,临近)和动词ro
• armless 英文词源 armless (adj.) late 14c., of physical conditions, from arm (n.1) + -less . Meaning "without weapons" is attested from 1610s (from arm (n.2)), but that sense is more typically expressed by unarmed . 中文词源 armless ：无臂的；无武装的；(动植物)无防护器官的   词根词缀： -arm-武器 + -less形容词词尾,否定 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文
• archbishop 英文词源 archbishop (n.) Old English ærcebiscop , from Late Latin archiepiscopus , from Greek arkhi- "chief" (see archon ) + episkopos "bishop," literally "overseer." Replaced earlier Old English heah biscop (see bishop ). The spelling conformed to Latin from 12c. 中文词源 Archbishop ：大主教 前缀arch-, 始，主要。bishop, 主教，来自拉丁词episcopus. 该词的英语词源请
• archaeologist 英文词源 archaeologist (n.) 1824; see archaeology + -ist . 中文词源 archaeologist ：考古学家 词根词缀： -archae-起始→古老 + -o- + -logist…学家 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： archaeologist 词源， archaeologist 含义。
• apprehensive 英文词源 apprehensive (adj.) late 14c., "capable of perceiving, fitted for mental impression," from Medieval Latin apprehensivus , from Latin apprehensus , past participle of apprehendere (see apprehend ). Meaning "fearful of what is to come" is recorded from 1718, via notion of "capable of grasping with the mind" (c. 1600). Related: Apprehensively ; apprehensiveness . 中文词源 apprehensiv
• apod 英文词源 apodal (adj.) 1769, with -al + Greek apous (genitive apodos ) "footless," from a- , privative prefix (see a- (3)) + pous "foot," from PIE root *ped- (1) "a foot" (see foot (n.)). apodictic (adj.) "clearly demonstrated," 1650s, from Latin apodicticus , from Greek apodeiktikos , from apodeiktos , verbal adjective of apodeiknynai "to show off, demonstrate," literally "to point away from"
• antisubmarine 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random macho macho: see male 中文词源 antisubmarine ：反潜(艇)的，防潜(艇)的  词根词缀： anti-反对,抗,防 + sub-下,低 + -mar-海 + -ine形容词词尾 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： antisubmarine 词源， antisubmarine 含义。
• antimilitarism 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random anacolouthon anacolouthon: see acolyte 中文词源 antimilitarism ：反军国主义，反黩武主义 词根词缀： anti-反对,抗,防 + -milit-兵 + -ary(y略) + -ism名词词尾,主义 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： antimilitarism 词源， antimilitarism 含义。
• antilogy 英文词源 antilogy "A contradiction in terms or ideas", Early 17th century: from French antilogie , from Greek antilogia , from anti- 'against' + -logia (see -logy ). 中文词源 antilogy ：前后矛盾，自相矛盾 词根词缀： anti-反对,抗,防 + -log-说话,推理,计算 + -y名词词尾 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： antilogy 词源， antilogy 含义。
• antifederal 英文词源 gerrymander (v.) 1812, "arrange political divisions in disregard of natural boundaries so as to give one party an advantage in elections," also from 1812 as a noun, American English, from name of Elbridge Gerry + (sala)mander . Gerry, governor of Massachusetts, was lampooned when his party redistricted the state in a blatant bid to preserve an Antifederalist majority. One sprawling Es
• anthropogenesis 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random adorn adorn: see ornament 中文词源 anthropogenesis ：人类起源学   词根词缀： -anthrop-人类 + -o- + -gen-生殖,出生 + -esis名词词尾 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： anthropogenesis 词源， anthropogenesis 含义。
• antemeridian 英文词源 postmeridian "The hours after midday, the afternoon. Chiefly figurative . Now rare ", Late 16th cent.; earliest use found in Brian Melbancke (d. 1600), writer. As noun from post-classical Latin postmeridianum the hours after midday, afternoon, use as noun of neuter of classical Latin postmerīdiānus , adjective; as adjective from classical Latin postmerīdiānus (also in contracted f