dowry
英 ['daʊ(ə)rɪ]
美 ['daʊri]
TEM8 GRE
1、dow- + -ry / -ery.
dowry 嫁妆来自PIE*do, 给予，词源同data, donate. -ry，名词后缀。用于指嫁妆。
- dowry
- dowry: [14] English acquired dowry via Anglo- Norman dowarie from Old French douaire (source of the originally synonymous but now little-used dower [14]). This in turn came from medieval Latin dōtārium, a derivative of Latin dōs ‘dowry’, which was related to dāre ‘give’ (source of English date, donate, etc). Its associated verb, dōtāre ‘endow’, is the ancestor of English endow.
=> date, donate, endow - dowry (n.)
- early 14c., from Anglo-French dowarie, Old French doaire (late 13c.) "dower, dowry, gift," from Medieval Latin dotarium, from Latin dotare "to endow, portion," from dos (genitive dotis) "marriage portion," from PIE *do-ti (cognates: Sanskrit dadati, Greek didonai, Old Church Slavonic dati, Lithuanian duoti, Armenian tam, all meaning "to give"), from root *do- "to give" (see date (n.1)).
- 1. His family hoped that his bride would bring a large dowry.
- 他的家人希望新娘能带来丰厚的嫁妆.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 2. If a young woman did not have a dowry, she went into domestic service.
- 如果一个年轻女子没有嫁妆，她就要做家政服务赚钱。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. The money from her dowry was invested in her mother's store.
- 她的嫁妆钱都投到了母亲的铺子里。
来自辞典例句
- 4. Although ours has been so pure and poor That you can take them no great dowry.
- 贫俭诚所尚,资从岂待周!
来自英汉 - 翻译样例 - 文学
- 5. As a wife , the woman was protected by the setting up of a dowry or decimum.
- 给已婚妇女备有一份嫁妆,或者称为“decimum”,以使其受到保护.
来自中级百科部分
