toadstone(n.)
"石头或类似石头的物体,据说具有治疗或保护力量,并在某些蟾蜍的头部发现",1550年代,来自 toad + stone(n.)。翻译希腊语 batrakhites,中世纪拉丁语 bufonites; 还比较法语 crapaudine(13世纪),德语 krötenstein。
The Crapadine or Toadstone, we speak of before, you shall prove to be a true one, if the Toad lift himself so up against it, when it is shew'd or held to him, as if he would come at it, and leap to catch it away: he doth so much envy that Man should have that stone. ["Eighteen Books of the Secrets of Art & Nature," 1661]
我们之前提到的 Crapadine 或蟾石,如果蟾蜍在展示或拿给它看时抬起自己,仿佛要接近它并跳起来抓走它,那么你将证明它是真的:它非常嫉妒人类拥有那块石头。["艺术与自然的十八本秘密书",1661年]
该词起源时间:1550年代