dainty

英 ['deɪntɪ] 美 ['denti]

解释

※ 提供单词"dainty"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。

dainty 娇美的

来自法语，词源同dignity, 尊贵，美丽，字母g脱落。

dainty: dainty: [13] In origin, dainty is the same word as dignity. The direct descendant of Latin dignitās in Old French was daintie or deintie, but Old French later reborrowed the word as dignete. It was the latter that became English dignity, but daintie took a route via Anglo-Norman dainte to give English dainty. At first it meant ‘honour, esteem’, but before a century was up it had passed through ‘pleasure, joy’ to ‘something choice, luxury’. The first record of its adjectival use comes in the 14th century, when it meant ‘choice, excellent, delightful’; this soon developed to ‘delicately pretty’.
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dainty (n.): c. 1300, "excellence, elegance; a luxury," from Old French deintie (12c.) "price, value," also "delicacy, pleasure," from Latin dignitatem (nominative dignitas) "greatness, rank, worthiness, worth, beauty," from dignus "worthy" (see dignity).
dainty (adj.): c. 1300, deinte, "delightful, pleasing," from dainty (n.). Meaning evolved in Middle English to "choice, excellent" (late 14c.) to "delicately pretty." Related: Daintiness.

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5. It featured a solo dance in which a woman in a short overall mimed a lot of dainty housework.: 它的亮点是一段独舞，一名身穿短罩衫的女子以哑剧形式优雅地表演了许多做家务的动作。