corsair

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A French privateer, especially from the port of Saint-Malo.
  2. A privateer or pirate in general.
    — "If I had been born a corsair or a pirate, a brigand, genteel highwayman or patriot―and they're the same thing," thought Mr. Tappertit, musing among the nine-pins, "I should have been all right. But to drag out a ^([sic]) ignoble existence unbeknown to mankind in general―patience! I will be famous yet."
  3. The ship of privateers or pirates, especially of French nationality.
  4. A nocturnal assassin bug of the genus Rasahus, found in the southern USA.
  5. A Californian market fish (Sebastes rosaceus).

词形变化

corsairs plural

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Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱers-
Proto-Indo-European *-éti
Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥séti
Proto-Italic *korzō
Medieval Latin currō
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Italic *-tus
Medieval Latin -sus
Medieval Latin cursus
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Medieval Latin -āriusnom.
Medieval Latin -ārius
Medieval Latin cursāriusder.
Italian corsarobor.
French corsairebor.
English corsair
Borrowed from French corsaire, from Medieval Latin cursārius (“pirate”), from Latin cursus (“course, a running; plunder, hostile inroad”). Doublet of courser and hussar.
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