eoten

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A giant from Old English literature and mythology.
    — The chief exploit of the hero, Beowulf the Great, is the destruction of the two monsters Grendel and his mother; both like most of the evil beings in the old times, dwellers in the fens and the waters; and both, moreover, as some Christian bard has taken care to inform us, of "Cain's kin," as were also the eotens, and the elves, and the orcs (eótenas, and ylfe, and orcneas).

词形变化

eotens plural

词源

Learned borrowing from Old English eoten. Doublet of ettin.
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