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a字母开头的单词列表

  • azimuth(n.)

    "弧形标记一颗星距离子午线北点或南点的距离",14世纪晚期,源自古法语 azimut,来自阿拉伯语 as-sumut "the ways",复数形式为 as-samt "the way, direction"(参见 zenith)。相关词汇: Azimuthal

  • azoic(adj.)

    "生命出现之前的地球历史时期",1843年,由 -ic 和希腊语 azōos 组成,源自 a- "不,没有"(参见 a-(3))和 zōon "动物",此处用于表示"生命"的意义(源自 PIE 词根 *gwei- "生活")。

  • Azores

    "位于大西洋中,距离葡萄牙西部约800英里的群岛,由葡萄牙人于1492年发现,据说源自葡萄牙语词汇 azoraçor ,指的是"一种鹰,游隼",因当地有大量的鹰或秃鹫而被称为这个名字,但这很可能是民间词源学的解释。"

  • azotemia(n.)

    另外, azotaemia,“血中氮过多的状态”,出现于1894年,源自 azote “氮”(见 azo- )和 -emia “血液”。相关词汇: Azotemic

  • azure(n.)

    "天蓝色; 由石青粉制成的颜料或油漆",早在14世纪就出现了,源自古法语 azurasur,是一种颜色名称(12世纪),来自对中世纪拉丁语 lazurlazuri 的错误分离(好像 -l- 是法语冠词 l'),该词源自希腊语 lazour,来自波斯语 lajward,源自马可波罗提到的土库曼斯坦的 Lajward 地方,那里采集这种石头。

  • Anthropocene(n.)

    a proposed "age of humans" to be added to the geological time scale and dating roughly from mid-20c., by 1996, based on Holocene, etc.; see anthropo-+ -cene.

  • apatite(n.)

    "common naturally occurring calcium phosphate," 1803, with -ite (1) + Greek apatē "cheating, fraud, deceit," which is of uncertain origin. Named by German geologist Abraham Gottlob Werner (1786) and so called because it often is mistaken for other minerals.

  • athame(n.)

    1954, a knife used in Wiccan rituals, term first appearing in the works of Gerald Gardner (1884-1964). Ultimately from a mistranscription of Medieval Latin artavus, "pen-knife" in Solomonic grimoires.