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hirsute (adj.)[hirsute 词源字典]: "hairy," 1620s, from Latin hirsutus "rough, shaggy, bristly," figuratively "rude, unpolished," related to hirtus "shaggy," and possibly to horrere "to bristle with fear," from PIE *ghers-tu-, from root *ghers- "to bristle" (see horror).[hirsute etymology, hirsute origin, 英语词源]
hirsutism (n.): 1927, from hirsute + -ism.
his (pron.): Old English his (genitive of he), from Proto-Germanic *hisa (cognates: Gothic is, German es). Originally also the neuter possessive pronoun, but replaced in that sense c. 1600 by its. In Middle English, hisis was tried for the absolute pronoun (compare her/hers), but it failed to stick. For dialectal his'n, see her.
Hispania: Latin name for the Iberian peninsula, literally "country of the Spaniards;" see Hispanic.
Hispanic (adj.): "pertaining to Spain" (especially ancient Spain) 1580s, from Latin Hispanicus, from Hispania "Iberian Peninsula," from Hispanus "Spaniard" (see Spaniard). Specific application to Spanish-speaking parts of the New World is 1889, American English; especially applied since c. 1972 to Spanish-speaking persons of Latin American descent living in U.S.
Hispaniola: West Indian island, from Spanish la isla española "the Spanish island" (not "little Spain"); name said to have been given by Columbus in 1492.
hiss (v.): late 14c., of imitative origin. Johnson wrote, "it is remarkable, that this word cannot be pronounced without making the noise which it signifies." Related: Hissed; hissing.
hiss (n.): 1510s, from hiss (v.).
hisself (pron.): see himself. The shift in felt meaning of the first element of this compound from dative to gentitive created this new word c. 1400, whereas the same process did not change herself.
hissing (n.): late 14c., hissyng, of imitative origin (see hiss (v.)), but originally also "whistling." In both senses expressing opprobrium.
hissy (adj.): 1905, from hiss + -y (2). Hissy fit is attested by 1983.
hist: exclamation commanding silence, attested from 1610s; probably so chosen because the sound is both easy to hear and suddenly silent.
histamine (n.): 1913, "amine produced by the decomposition of histidine."
histidine (n.): complex amino acid, 1896, from German histidin; see histo- + chemical suffix -idine.
histo-: medical word-forming element, from Greek histos "warp, web," literally "anything set upright," from histasthai "to stand," from PIE *sta- "to stand" (see stet). Taken by 19c. medical writers as the best Greek root from which to form terminology for "tissue."
histogram (n.): 1891, from histo- + -gram.
histology (n.): "study of organic tissues," 1847, from histo- + -ology.
histone (n.): 1885, from German histon (1884); see histo- + -one.
historian (n.): mid-15c., from Middle French historien (14c.), from Latin historia (see history). As "writer of history in the higher sense" (distinguished from a mere annalist or chronicler), from 1530s. The Old English word was þeod-wita.
[T]he historian's fallacy is the error of assuming that a man who has a given historical experience knows it, when he has had it, to be all that a historian would know it to be, with the advantage of historical perspective. [David Hackett Fischer, "Historians' Fallacies," 1970]
historiaster (n.): "petty or contemptible historian," 1887, from historian with ending altered to -aster.