moss
英 [m?s]
美 [m?s]
- n. 苔蘚；泥沼
- vt. 使長滿苔蘚
- n. (Moss)人名；(英、德、意、西、葡、波、挪、瑞典)莫斯
助記提示
1. mousse => moss.
2. This had two distinct meanings: 'swamp' and 'moss'. It is not altogether clear which was primary, but it seems more probable than not that 'moss' (a plant which frequents damp places) was derived from 'swamp'.
3. from PIE *meus- "damp," with derivatives referring to swamps and swamp vegetation.
4. All the Germanic languages have the word in both senses, which is natural because moss is the characteristic plant of boggy places.
5. PIE *meus- "damp" ==> mysophobia, mire, must "new wine", moss.
6. 諧音“沒濕”-----淹沒在濕潤、潮濕的地方-----沼澤地。
7. 該詞還被音譯為“莫斯、莫絲”。
中文詞源
moss 苔蘚，地衣來自古英語mos,沼澤，泥沼，來自PIE*meus,濕氣，水氣，詞源同moist,must.引申詞義苔蘚，地衣。
英文詞源
- moss
- moss: [OE] The prehistoric Germanic ancestor of moss was *musam. This had two distinct meanings: ‘swamp’ and ‘moss’. It is not altogether clear which was primary, but it seems more probable than not that ‘moss’ (a plant which frequents damp places) was derived from ‘swamp’. The only meaning recorded for its Old English descendant mos was ‘swamp’ (which survives in place-names), but no doubt ‘moss’ (not evidenced before the 14th century) was current too.
Words from the same ultimate source to have found their way into English include mire [14] (borrowed from Old Norse myrr ‘swamp’), mousse [19] (borrowed from French, which got it from Middle Low German mos ‘moss’), and litmus [16] (whose Old Norse source litmosi meant literally ‘dye-moss’ – litmus is a dye extracted from lichens).
=> litmus, mire, mousse - moss (n.)
- Old English meos "moss," related to mos "bog," from Proto-Germanic *musan (cognates: Old High German mios, Danish mos, German Moos), also in part from Old Norse mosi "moss, bog," and Medieval Latin mossa "moss," from the same Germanic source, from PIE *meus- "damp," with derivatives referring to swamps and swamp vegetation (cognates: Latin muscus "moss," Lithuanian musai "mold, mildew," Old Church Slavonic muchu "moss").
Selden Moset te Marbelston tat men ofte treden. ["Piers Plowman," 1362]
All the Germanic languages have the word in both senses, which is natural because moss is the characteristic plant of boggy places. It is impossible to say which sense is original. Scott (1805) revived 17c. moss-trooper "freebooter infesting Scottish border marshes."
雙語例句
- 1. "We've got the car that killed Myra Moss." — "What!"
- “我們已經找到撞死邁拉·莫斯的車了。”——“真的！”
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Moss had clamped an unexpectedly strong grip on his arm.
- 莫斯突然緊緊抓住他的手臂。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. The moss was soft and furry to the touch.
- 苔蘚柔軟，摸起來像絨毛。
來自《權威詞典》
- 4. Early work of Moss and Tansley used the formation as a unit.
- Moss和Tensley早期的研究是以群系作為單位.
來自辭典例句
- 5. Mrs. Moss apologized for her husband.
- 莫斯太太替她丈夫表示歉意.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》