cygnet
英 ['s?gn?t]
美['s?ɡn?t]
- n. 小天鵝
GRE
詞態變化
復數:?cygnets;
中文詞源
cygnet 幼天鵝
來自拉丁詞cygnus，幼天鵝。
英文詞源
- cygnet
- cygnet: [15] A cygnet is literally a ‘small swan’. The late Old French term for ‘swan’ was cigne, and this was modified with the diminutive suffix -et, probably in Anglo-Norman, to produce *cignet, the source of the English word. Cigne, precursor of modern French cygne, strikes a familiar chord, but in fact its Latin source, cygnus, is a comparatively late development. The standard classical Latin word for ‘swan’ was cycnus, from Greek kúknos, which produced in early Old French cisne. A trace of it survives in Spanish cisne ‘swan’.
- cygnet (n.)
- c. 1400, also signet before 17c., from Anglo-French, diminutive of Old French cigne, cisne "swan" (12c., Modern French cygne), from Latin cygnus, from Greek kyknos, perhaps from PIE *keuk- "to be white."
雙語例句
- 1. A young swan is called a cygnet.
- 小天鵝叫做“cygnet”.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 2. However, not just anyone will be able to buy a Cygnet.
- 然而，不只是所有人都能夠購買小天鵝。
來自辭典例句