axle

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Shoulder. obsolete
  2. The pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel.
    — rear axle
  3. A transverse bar or shaft connecting the opposite wheels of a car or carriage; an axletree.
  4. An axis. archaic
    — the Sun’s axle

词形变化

axles plural axles plural

词源

词源 1
From Middle English axel, axle, eaxle, from Old English eaxl (“shoulder, armpit”), from Proto-West Germanic *ahslu (“shoulder”), from Proto-Germanic *ahslō (“shoulder”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱs-l-eh₂, from *h₂eḱs- (“axis, axle”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian acsle (“shoulder”), Dutch oksel (“armpit”), German Achsel (“armpit”), Swedish axel (“shoulder”), Latin axilla (“armpit”), Latin axis (“axle”) (whence English axis, atelier, and via Latin āla English ala, aisle), Ancient Greek ἄξων (áxōn) (whence English axo-, axon),
Greek άξονας (áxonas, “axle”), Sanskrit अक्ष (ákṣa, “axle”), Sanskrit कक्ष (kakṣá, “room, armpit”), Russian ось (osʹ, “axle”).
词源 2
From Middle English axil, in turn a combination of Old English eax and Old Norse ǫxull.
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