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homeland (n.)[homeland 词源字典]: 1660s, from home (n.) + land (n.). Old English hamland meant "enclosed pasture."[homeland etymology, homeland origin, 英语词源]
homeless (adj.): 1610s, from home (n.) + -less. Old English had hamleas, but the modern word probably is a new formation. As a noun meaning "homeless persons," by 1857.
homelessness (n.): 1814, from homeless + -ness.
homeliness (n.): mid-14c., from homely + -ness. Originally "meekness, gentleness," also "familiarity, intimacy; friendliness;" sense degenerated by c. 1400 to "want of refinement in manners, coarseness; presumptuousness."
homely (adj.): late 14c., "of or belonging to home or household, domestic," from Middle English hom "home" (see home (n.)) + -ly (2). Sense of "plain, unadorned, simple" is late 14c., and extension to "having a plain appearance, ugly, crude" took place c. 1400, but now survives chiefly in U.S., especially in New England, where it was the usual term for "physically unattractive;" ugly being typically "ill-tempered."
homemade (adj.): also home-made, 1650s, from home (n.) + made.
homemaker (n.): also home-maker, "woman considered as a domestic agent," by 1861, American English, from home (n.) + agent noun from make (v.).
homeo-: word-forming element meaning "similar to," Latinized from Greek homio-, from homoios "like, resembling, of the same kind," related to or an expanded form of homos "one and the same," from PIE *sem- "one, as one" (see same).
homeomorphism (n.): 1854, from homeomorphous (1832), from homeo- + morphous (see metamorphosis); originally of crystals. Homeomorphic is from 1902.
homeopath (n.): 1830; back-formation from homeopathy. Related: Homeopathic.
homeopathy (n.): 1830, from German Homöopathie, coined 1824 by German physician Samuel Friedrich Hahnemann (1755-1843) from Greek homoios "like, similar, of the same kind" (see homeo-) + -patheia (see -pathy).
homeostasis (n.): 1926, from homeo- + Greek stasis "standing still" (see stasis). Related: Homeostatic.
homeowner (n.): also home-owner, 1892, American English, from home (n.) + agent noun of own (v.).
Homer: name of the supposed author of the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey," from Latin Homerus, from Greek Homeros. The name first occurs in a fragment of Hesiod. It is identical to Greek homeros "hostage," also "blind" (connecting notion is "going with a companion").
homer (n.): short for home run, from 1884. As a verb, from 1946. Related: Homered; homering.
Homeric (adj.): 1771, from Homer + -ic. Homerical is from 1670s. Compare Latin Homericus, Greek Homerikos.
homeroom (n.): in the U.S. schools sense, 1915, from home (n.) + room (n.).
homeschool (v.): by 1989 (implied in homeschooling), from home (n.) + school (v.). Related: Homeschooled.
homesick (adj.): 1798, back-formation from homesickness.
homesickness (n.): 1756, translating German heimweh, from Heim "home" + Weh "woe, pain;" the compound is from Swiss dialect, expressing the longing for the mountains. The word was introduced to other European languages 17c. by Swiss mercenaries. Also see nostalgia.