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amorist [amorist 词源字典]: "A person who is in love or who writes about love", Late 16th century: from Latin amor or French amour 'love' + -ist.[amorist etymology, amorist origin, 英语词源]
aeronaut: "A traveller in a hot-air balloon, airship, or other flying craft", Late 18th century: from French aéronaute, from Greek aēr 'air' + nautēs 'sailor'. More see asterisk, nausea
alec: "A stupid person", Late 20th century: shortening of smart alec.
accoutrement: "An additional item of dress or equipment", Mid 16th century: from French, from accoutrer 'clothe, equip' (see accoutre).
abaya: "A full-length, sleeveless outer garment worn by some Muslim women", Mid 19th century: from Arabic ‘abāya.
agar: "A gelatinous substance obtained from certain red seaweeds and used in biological culture media and as a thickener in foods", Early 19th century: from Malay.
americium: "The chemical element of atomic number 95, a radioactive metal of the actinide series. Americium does not occur naturally and was first made by bombarding plutonium with neutrons", 1940s: from America (where it was first made) + -ium.
afara: "A tall West African hardwood tree with a characteristic shape resembling a pagoda", 1920s: from Yoruba.
Ashkenazi: "A Jew of central or eastern European descent. More than 80 per cent of Jews today are Ashkenazim; they preserve Palestinian rather than Babylonian Jewish traditions and some still use Yiddish", From modern Hebrew, from Ashkenaz, grandson of Japheth, one of the sons of Noah (Gen. 10:3).
adenoids: "A mass of enlarged lymphatic tissue between the back of the nose and the throat, often hindering speaking and breathing in young children", Late 19th century: adenoid from Greek adēn 'gland' + -oid.
Alcheringa: "(In the mythology of some Australian Aborigines) the ‘golden age’ when the first ancestors were created", Late 19th century: from Arrernte aljerre-nge 'in the Dreamtime'.
adzuki: "A small, round dark-red edible bean", Early 18th century: from Japanese azuki.
Aesculapian: "Relating to medicine or physicians", Late 16th century: from Latin Aesculapius, the name of the Roman god of medicine, + -ian.
astronavigation: "Determination of the position and course of an aircraft or a spacecraft by means of observation of the stars", Mid 20th century: from astro- + navigation.
amenorrhoea: "An abnormal absence of menstruation", Early 19th century: from a-¹ 'without' + menorrhoea.
accumbent: "(Of a cotyledon) lying edgeways against the folded radicle in the seed", Early 19th century: from Latin accumbent- 'reclining', from accumbere, from ad- 'to' + a verb related to cubare 'to lie'.
Angelus: "A Roman Catholic devotion commemorating the Incarnation of Jesus and including the Hail Mary, said at morning, noon, and sunset", Mid 17th century: from the Latin phrase Angelus domini 'the angel of the Lord', the opening words of the devotion.
Armagnac: "A type of brandy traditionally made in Aquitaine in SW France", From the former name of a district in Aquitaine.
ampicillin: "A semi-synthetic form of penicillin used to treat infections of the urinary and respiratory tracts", 1960s: blend of amino and a contraction of penicillin.
acceptation: "A particular sense or the generally recognized meaning ( common acceptation) of a word or phrase", Late Middle English (originally in the sense 'favourable reception, approval'): from late Latin acceptatio(n-), from the verb acceptare (see accept). The current sense dates from the early 17th century.