crocodile的词源
英文词源
- crocodile
- crocodile: [13] The crocodile gets its name from its habit of basking in the sun on sandbanks or on the shores of rivers. The word means literally ‘pebble-worm’, and it was coined in Greek from the nouns krókē ‘pebbles’ and drilos ‘worm’. The resulting Greek compound *krokódrīlos has never actually been found, for it lost its second r, giving krokódīlos, and this r reappeared and disappeared capriciously during the word’s journey through Latin and Old French to English. Middle English had it – the 13th century form was cokodrille – but in the 16th century the modern r-less form took over, based on Latin crocodīlus.
- crocodile (n.)
- 1560s, restored spelling of Middle English cokedrille, kokedrille (c. 1300), from Medieval Latin cocodrillus, from Latin crocodilus, from Greek krokodilos, word applied by Herodotus to the crocodile of the Nile, apparently due to its basking habits, from kroke "pebbles" + drilos "worm." The crocodile tears story was in English from at least c. 1400.
中文词源
英语单词crocodile来自希腊语krokodilos，由kroko（卵石） drilos（爬虫）构成，字面意思就是“喜欢在卵石上晒太阳的爬虫”，首先出现于古希腊著名历史学家希罗多德的名著《历史》中，用来表示埃及尼罗河中的鳄鱼。鳄鱼得此名号显然是因为它们喜欢在卵石上晒太阳的生活习性。
crocodile：['krɒkədaɪl] n.鳄鱼
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：crocodile 词源，crocodile 含义。
来自希腊文kroke, 鹅卵石，词源同sugar, 石粒，糖粒，drilos, 虫。
