eaglet

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The immature young of an eagle; an eagle chick.
    — He [Christopher North] speaks in his "Second Canticle" of "the imps," "the eaglets," "the young ones," "the bursting of the shells," as though it were the commoner occurrence for there to be several eaglets in a nest. This is not the case.

词形变化

eaglets plural

词源

Etymology tree
English eagle
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -lus
Latin -ellus
Old French -el
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tosder.?
Late Latin -ittus
Old French -et
Old French -eletbor.
Middle English -let
English -let
English eaglet
From eagle + -let (diminutive suffix).
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