larceny: [15] The Latin word for ‘robber’ was latrō. Its original meaning was ‘mercenary soldier’, and it came from Greek látron ‘pay’ (a relative of latreíā ‘service, worship’, which provided the suffix in such English words as idolatry and bardolatry). From latrō was derived latrōcinium ‘robbery’, which passed into English via Old French larcin and its Anglo- Norman derivative *larcenie. => idolatry
larceny (n.)
late 15c., with -y (3) + Anglo-French larcin (late 13c.), from Old French larrecin, larcin "theft, robbery" (11c.), from Latin latrocinium "robbery, freebooting, highway-robbery, piracy," from latro "robber, bandit," also "hireling, mercenary," ultimately from a Greek source akin to latron "pay, hire, wages," from a suffixed form of PIE root *le- (1) "to get."
雙語例句
1. The man was put in jail for grand larceny.
那人因重大盜竊案而被監(jiān)禁.
來自《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》
2. Haggerman now faces two to 20 years in prison on grand larceny charges.
哈格曼被控重大盜竊罪，面臨2至20年的刑期。
來自柯林斯例句
3. It was an essential of the common law crime of larceny.
它是構成普通法中的盜竊罪的必要條件.
來自辭典例句
4. The man was imprisoned for larceny.
那個人因犯盜竊罪而入獄.
來自辭典例句
5. There is a good deal of staff larceny which is siphoning off revenue.