请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 mead-month
释义

Mead-monthn.

Brit. /ˈmiːdmʌnθ/, U.S. /ˈmidˌmənθ/
Forms: see mead n.2 and month n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mead n.2, month n.1
Etymology: < mead n.2 + month n.1Earlier currency is perhaps implied by G. Hickes's record of the Old English month names (perhaps relying on a lost manuscript; compare also quot. 1714):1703 G. Hickes Thesaurus I. 215 (table) Anglo-Saxonica... Julius... Medmonað, Mædmonað.Although it is included in Bosworth-Toller and later dictionaries of Old English, the word is apparently not attested in any extant manuscript from the Old English period.
Now archaic and historical.
The month of July.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > period > a month or calendar month > specific months > [noun] > July
AfterlitheOE
Julyc1300
quintile1606
Mead-month1681
worm month1782
1681 W. Robertson Phraseologia Generalis 584/1 In mede month; Hay time.
1714 J. Fortescue-Aland Fortescue's Governance of Eng. Notes 116 July was called Mæde-monað, Mead-Month.
1849 E. Bulwer-Lytton King Arthur viii. xiv Roved the same pastures when the Mead-month smil'd.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
<
n.1681
随便看

 

英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2024/12/23 16:01:34