dowry

英 ['da?(?)r?] 美['da?ri]

TEM8GRE擴(kuò)展詞匯

復(fù)數(shù):?dowries;

1、dow- + -ry / -ery.

dowry 嫁妝

來自PIE*do, 給予，詞源同data, donate. -ry，名詞后綴。用于指嫁妝。

dowry: dowry: [14] English acquired dowry via Anglo- Norman dowarie from Old French douaire (source of the originally synonymous but now little-used dower [14]). This in turn came from medieval Latin dōtārium, a derivative of Latin dōs ‘dowry’, which was related to dāre ‘give’ (source of English date, donate, etc). Its associated verb, dōtāre ‘endow’, is the ancestor of English endow.
=> date, donate, endow
dowry (n.): early 14c., from Anglo-French dowarie, Old French doaire (late 13c.) "dower, dowry, gift," from Medieval Latin dotarium, from Latin dotare "to endow, portion," from dos (genitive dotis) "marriage portion," from PIE *do-ti (cognates: Sanskrit dadati, Greek didonai, Old Church Slavonic dati, Lithuanian duoti, Armenian tam, all meaning "to give"), from root *do- "to give" (see date (n.1)).

1. His family hoped that his bride would bring a large dowry.: 他的家人希望新娘能帶來豐厚的嫁妝.

2. If a young woman did not have a dowry, she went into domestic service.: 如果一個年輕女子沒有嫁妝，她就要做家政服務(wù)賺錢。

3. The money from her dowry was invested in her mother's store.: 她的嫁妝錢都投到了母親的鋪?zhàn)永铩?/dd>
來自辭典例句

4. Although ours has been so pure and poor That you can take them no great dowry.: 貧儉誠所尚,資從豈待周!

5. As a wife , the woman was protected by the setting up of a dowry or decimum.: 給已婚婦女備有一份嫁妝,或者稱為“decimum”,以使其受到保護(hù).