lithe
英語[編輯]
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詞源 1[編輯]
源自中古英語 lithen,源自古英語 līþan (「走,旅行,航行,失去」),源自原始日耳曼語 *līþaną (「走,離開,遭受」),源自原始印歐語 *leyt- (「走,啟程,死」)。與北弗里斯蘭語 lyen、lije (「遭受」)、荷蘭語 lijden (「遭受,忍耐,停留」)、德語 leiden (「遭受,忍受,允許」)同源。參見lode、lead。
動詞[編輯]
lithe (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 lithes,現在分詞 lithing,過去式 lithed 或 lode,過去分詞 lithed 或 lidden)
詞源 2[編輯]
源自中古英語 lithe,源自古英語 līþe (「輕柔的」),源自原始西日耳曼語 *linþ(ī),源自原始日耳曼語 *linþaz,源自原始印歐語 *lentos。與薩特弗里斯蘭語 lied (「瘦的,憔悴的」),丹麥語和古德語lind (「溫和的」)有關。在哥特語中不可考。一些文獻指出拉丁語 lenis (「軟的」)和/或拉丁語 lentus (「柔軟靈活的」)亦為其同源詞。
形容詞[編輯]
lithe (比較級 lither,最高級 lithest)
- (棄用) 輕柔的,寧靜的
- 苗條的
- 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, 章號 III, 出自 Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, 出版於 1915, →OCLC:
- She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.
- 1997, David Foster Wallace, 「Getting Away From Already Pretty Much Being Away From It All」, 出自 A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Kindle版, Little, Brown Book Group:
- The coaches are grim, tan, lithe-looking women, clearly twirlers once, on the far side of their glory now and very serious-looking, each with a clipboard and whistle.
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- 靈活的,柔韌的
- 1861, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Elsie Venner, page 125
- … she danced with a kind of passionate fierceness, her lithe body undulating with flexuous grace …
- 1861, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Elsie Venner, page 125
- 靈活的,適應性強的
- 2018 3月 8, Eric Asimov, 「Bubbles, With Joy: Pétillant Naturel’s Triumphant Return」, 出自 The New York Times[1]:
- Yet the 2016 Éxilé rosé from Lise et Bertrand Jousset in the Loire Valley, made mostly of gamay, was yeasty let light and lithe, while the 2016 Indigeno from Ancarani in Emilia-Romagna, made of trebbiano, was taut and earthy.
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詞源 3[編輯]
源自中古英語 lithen,源自古英語 līþian、līþiġian (「使...軟,使...寧靜,使...緩和,安撫」),源自原始日耳曼語 *linþijaną (「使...軟」),源自原始印歐語 *lento- (「有彈性的」)。與德語 lindern (「減輕,緩和」)同源。
動詞[編輯]
lithe
- (不及物,棄用) 平靜下來
- (及物,棄用) 使...軟,使...平靜,緩和,減輕
- a. 1652, Thomas Adams, Physic from Heaven
- England.. hath now suppled, lithed and stretched their throats.
- 1642, Daniel Rogers, Naaman the Syrian: His Disease and Cure
- Give me also faith, Lord,.. to lithe, to form, and to accommodate my spirit and members.
- a. 1652, Thomas Adams, Physic from Heaven
詞源 4[編輯]
源自中古英語 lithen,源自古諾爾斯語 hlýða (「聽」),源自原始日耳曼語 *hliuþijaną (「聽」),源自原始印歐語 *ḱlewe- (「聽見」)。與丹麥語 lytte (「聽」)同源。與古英語 hlēoþor (「聲音,聲響,嗓音,歌聲」)、古英語 hlūd (「吵鬧的,洪亮的」)有關。其他見loud。
其他形式[編輯]
動詞[編輯]
lithe (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 lithes,現在分詞 lithing,一般過去時及過去分詞 lithed)
詞源 5[編輯]
不詳,可能變換自lewth。
名詞[編輯]
lithe (複數 lithes)
- (蘇格蘭) 避難所
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song:
- So Cospatric got him the Pict folk to build a strong castle there in the lithe of the hills, with the Grampians dark and bleak behind it, and he had the Den drained and he married a Pict lady and got on her bairns and he lived there till he died.
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song:
異序詞[編輯]
中古英語[編輯]
詞源 1[編輯]
名詞[編輯]
lithe (複數 lithes)
- light的另一種寫法
詞源 2[編輯]
名詞[編輯]
lithe
- lyth的另一種寫法