解释
- n. 小天鹅
※ 提供单词"cygnet"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。
中文词源
cygnet 幼天鹅
来自拉丁词cygnus，幼天鹅。
英文词源
- 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."
例句和用法
- 1. A young swan is called a cygnet.
- 小天鹅叫做“cygnet”.
- 2. However, not just anyone will be able to buy a Cygnet.
- 然而，不只是所有人都能够购买小天鹅。
来自《简明英汉词典》
来自辞典例句