quword趣词 Word Origins Dictionary
World Cup is by 1951; U.S. baseball World Series is by 1893 (originally often World's Series). World power in the geopolitical sense first recorded 1900. World-class is attested from 1950, originally of Olympic athletes.[world etymology, world origin, 英语词源]...
Angina pectoris is from 1744, from Latin pectoris, genitive of pectus "chest" (see pectoral (adj.)).[angina etymology, angina origin, 英语词源]
[banter 词源字典] 1670s, origin uncertain; said by Swift to be a word from London street slang. Related: Bantered; bantering. The noun is from 1680s.[banter etymology, banter origin, 英语词源] roast (n.) early 14c., "meat roasted or for roasting;" see roast (v.). Meaning "a ...
[analyst etymology, analyst origin, 英语词源] liberator (n.) 1640s, from Latin liberator "one who sets free, a deliverer," agent noun from past participle stem of liberare (see liberate). messiah (n.) c. 1300, Messias, from Late Latin Messias, from Greek Messias, from Aramaic meshiha ...
[secure etymology, secure origin, 英语词源] wire-tapping (n.) also wiretapping, "surreptitiously obtaining information by connecting wires to telegraph (later telephone) lines and establishing an intermediate station between two legitimate ones," 1878, from wire (n.) + agent noun from tap (v.2...
hum, muttering, rushing," probably from a PIE reduplicative base*mor-mor, of imitative origin (cognates: Sanskritmurmurah"crackling fire," Greekmormyrein"to roar, boil," Lithuanianmurmlenti"to murmur"). Meaning "softly spoken words" is from 1670s.[murmur etymology, murmur origin, 英语词源]...
[brat etymology, brat origin, 英语词源] ignorant (adj.) late 14c., from Old French ignorant (14c.), from Latin ignorantia, from ignorantem (nominative ignorans), present participle of ignorare "not to know, to be unacquainted; mistake, misunderstand; take no notice of, pay no attention ...
=> bell, bellows, belly, billow, bolster[bold etymology, bold origin, 英语词源] forwardness (n.) 1520s, "condition of being in advance," from forward + -ness. Meaning "presumptuousness" is from c. 1600. Old English foreweardness meant "a beginning." homeliness (n.) mid-14c., from...
The present-day semantic distinction between the former (‘various, several’) and the latter (‘different’) had established itself by around 1700.=> divert, divorce, verse, version, worth[diverse etymology, diverse origin, 英语词源]