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- sandal[sandal 词源字典]
- sandal: [14] English acquired sandal from Latin sandalium. This is turn was borrowed from Greek sandálion, a diminutive form of sándalon ‘wooden shoe’, which probably came from a western Asian language. It has no connection with the sandal- of sandalwood [16], which came via medieval Latin sandalum and Greek sántalon or sándanon from Sanskrit candanah.
[sandal etymology, sandal origin, 英语词源] - sandal (n.)
- type of shoe, late 14c., from Old French sandale, from Latin sandalium "a slipper, sandal," from Greek sandalion, diminutive of sandalon "sandal," of unknown origin, perhaps from Persian. Related: Sandals.