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hypogeal [hypogeal 词源字典]: "Underground; subterranean", Late 17th century: via late Latin from Greek hupogeios (from hupo 'under' + gē 'earth') + -al.[hypogeal etymology, hypogeal origin, 英语词源]
hemiplegia: "Paralysis of one side of the body", Early 17th century: modern Latin, from Greek hēmiplēgia, from hemi- 'half' + plēgē 'stroke'.
HeLa cells: "Human epithelial cells of a strain maintained in tissue culture since 1951 and used in research, especially in virology", 1950s: from the name of Henrietta Lacks, whose cervical carcinoma provided the original cells.
hedonic: "Relating to, characterized by, or considered in terms of pleasant (or unpleasant) sensations", Mid 17th century: from Greek hēdonikos, from hēdonē 'pleasure'.
hansel: "A gift given at the beginning of the year or to mark an acquisition or the start of an enterprise, supposedly to bring good luck", Middle English (denoting luck): apparently related to late Old English handselen 'giving into a person's hands', and Old Norse handsal 'giving of the hand to seal a promise', from hand + an element related to sell; the notion of 'luck', however, is not present in these words.
housecraft: "The art of household management; skill in domestic duties", Mid 19th cent.; earliest use found in Art-Union Monthly Journal. From house + craft.
hypermarket: "A very large self-service store with a wide range of goods and a large car park, typically situated outside a town", 1970s: translation of French hypermarché, from hyper- 'beyond, exceeding' + marché 'market'.
hue and cry: "A loud clamour or public outcry", Late Middle English: from the Anglo-Norman French legal phrase hu e cri, literally 'outcry and cry', from Old French hu 'outcry' (from huer 'to shout'). More In early times any person witnessing or surprising a criminal committing a crime could raise a hue and cry, calling for others to join in their pursuit and capture. In law the cry had to be raised by the inhabitants of the district in which the crime was committed, or otherwise the pursuers were liable for any damages suffered by the victim. The origin of the expression is in legal French hu e cri ‘outcry and cry’. The first element has no connection with hue ‘colour’, which is a native English word related to Swedish hy ‘skin, complexion’, and originally meant ‘form, appearance’, only developing the colour sense in the mid 19th century.
homologate: "Approve (a car, engine, etc.) for sale in a particular market or use in a particular class of racing", Late 16th century: from medieval Latin homologat- 'agreed', from the verb homologare, from Greek homologein 'confess'.
hypso-: "Relating to height or elevation", From Greek hupsos 'height'.
handicuff: "= handcuff", Early 19th cent. Apparently an alteration of handcuff.
hydatid: "A cyst containing watery fluid, in particular one formed by and containing a tapeworm larva", Late 17th century: from modern Latin hydatis, from Greek hudatis, hudatid- 'watery vesicle', from hudōr, hudat- 'water'.
histrion: "An actor", Mid 16th cent.; earliest use found in John Alday (fl. 1566–1579), translator. From Middle French, French histrion actor in a musical farce in ancient Rome, bad actor from classical Latin histriōn-, histriō.
hypermedia: "An extension to hypertext providing multimedia facilities, such as those handling sound and video", 1960s: from hyper- 'above, beyond' + media¹.
horary: "Relating to hours as measurements of time", Early 17th century: from medieval Latin horarius, from Latin hora 'hour'.
Homo habilis: "An extinct hominid that is the earliest and most primitive known member of the human genus Homo, living in Africa between about 2.3 and 1.4 million years ago", 1960s; earliest use found in Louis Leakey (1903–1972), archaeologist and palaeoanthropologist. From scientific Latin Homo habilis, species name from Homo, genus name + scientific Latin habilis, specific name, specifically use classical Latin habilis skilful, able.
hapteron: "An organ of attachment in certain aquatic plants, algae, fungi, and lichens; especially the holdfast of an alga or each of the rootlike branches into which the holdfast may be divided", Late 19th cent.; earliest use found in Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society. From scientific Latin haptera, plural, irregularly from ancient Greek ἅπτειν to fasten, after Danish hapterer, plural, German Hapteren, plural.
haematin: "A bluish-black compound derived from haemoglobin by removal of the protein part and oxidation of the iron atom", Mid 19th century: from Greek haima, haimat- 'blood' + -in¹.
haplobiont: "A haplobiontic plant or fungus", Early 20th century; earliest use found in Journal of Genetics. From German Haplobiont from haplo- + -biont.
Horlicks: "A drink made from malted milk powder", Late 19th century: named after James and William Horlick, British-born brothers whose company first manufactured the drink in the US. More bollocks from mid 18th century:Bollocks used to be ballocks, and in that spelling they go back to the time of the Anglo-Saxons. The word is related to ball, and like many rude words it was perfectly standard English until around the 18th century. It is now used in several colourful expressions. A bollocking, or severe telling-off, is more genteelly written as a rollicking (mid 20th century), and it is more refined to make a Horlicks of (late 20th century) something than to make a bollocks of it. The dog's bollocks is a coarse version of expressions like the bee's knees or the cat's pyjamas, meaning ‘an excellent person or thing’, which was popularized in the late 1980s by the comic Viz.