appendixyoudaoicibaDictYouDict[appendix 词源字典]
appendix: see penthouse
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appendix (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
1540s, "subjoined addition to a document or book," from Latin appendix "an addition, continuation, something attached," from appendere (see append). Used for "small outgrowth of an internal organ" from 1610s, especially in reference to the vermiform appendix. This sense perhaps from or influenced by French appendix, where the term was in use from 1540s.