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- olfactory[olfactory 词源字典]
- olfactory: [17] Olfactory means etymologically ‘making smell’. It was borrowed from Latin *olfactōrius, a derivative of the verb olfacere ‘smell’. This in turn was a blend of olēre ‘smell’ (source of English redolent and related to odour) and facere ‘make’ (source of English fact, faction, etc).
=> odour, redolent[olfactory etymology, olfactory origin, 英语词源] - olfaction (n.)
- noun of action from Latin olfactus, past participle of olfacere "to smell, get the smell of" (transitive), from olere "to emit a smell" (see odor) + facere "to make" (see factitious).
- olfactory (adj.)
- 1650s, from Latin olfactorius, from olfact-, past participle stem of olfacere "to get the smell of, sniff," from olere "emit a smell, give off a smell of" (see odor) + facere "to make" (see factitious).
- olfactory bulb
- "A bulb-like terminal expansion of the telencephalon on which the olfactory nerve fibres end", Mid 19th cent.; earliest use found in Robley Dunglison (1798–1869), physician and medical writer. From olfactory + bulb, apparently after post-classical Latin bulbus olfactorius.
- olfactible
- "Capable of being smelled", Early 18th cent.; earliest use found in George Berkeley (1685–1753), Church of Ireland bishop of Cloyne and philosopher. From classical Latin olfact-, past participial stem of olfacere to smell + -ible.