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- katana (n.)[katana 词源字典]
- 1610s, from Japanese.[katana etymology, katana origin, 英语词源]
- metanalysis (n.)
- 1914, from meta- + analysis. Coined by Danish philologist Otto Jespersen (1860-1943).
- Montana
- U.S. state, from Latinized form of Spanish montaña "mountain," from Latin mont-, stem of mons (see mountain). Proposed 1864 by U.S. Rep. James H. Ashley of Ohio when it was created as a territory from Nebraska Territory, in reference to the Rocky Mountains, which however traverse only one end of it. Admitted as a state 1889. Related: Montanan.
- sultana (n.)
- wife, mother, daughter, or concubine of a sultan, 1580s, from Italian sultana, fem. of sultano (see sultan). Middle English had soudanesse "sultaness" (late 14c.).
- sultanate (n.)
- 1794, from sultan + -ate (1).
- tanager (n.)
- small American oscine bird, 1844, earlier tanagra (1610s), from Modern Latin tanagra, alteration of Portuguese tangara, from Tupi (Brazil) tangara, a bird name of uncertain meaning.
- Bharatanatyam
- "A classical dance form of southern India", From Sanskrit bharatanāṭya, literally 'the dance of Bharata', from Bharata, reputed to be the author of the Nāṭyaśāstra, a manual of dramatic art.