extremity

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ɪkˈstɹɛmɪti/|/ɛk-/    美 /ɪkˈstɹɛməti/|/-ɾi/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The most extreme or furthest point of something. countable,uncountable
    — [B]eſtowe your love on him, who, were it not to do you ſervice, would through the extremitie of love rather wiſh to die then live.
  2. An extreme measure. countable,uncountable
    — The Fort on the Mount St. Catherine after a Month's Siege was reduc'd to ſuch Extremitys, that they who defended it were forc'd to treat about a Surrender: and Aug. 29. 'twas agreed between the Engliſh Commiſſioners, Edward Earl of Mortaigne, Thomas Earl of Salisbury, and Fitz-Hugh, and the French Commiſſioners, the Sieur Nobles Lieutenant of Guy de Bouteil, which the Sieurs De Buſſon and de Graville, in the Name of the Gariſon, that they would deliver up the Abby and Fortreſs of St. Catherine on the Thurſday following, on condition of having only their Lives ſpar'd.
  3. A hand or foot. countable,uncountable
    — Guillain–Barré syndrome causes one to not be able to move one’s extremities.
  4. A limb (“major appendage of a human or animal such as an arm, leg, or wing”). countable,uncountable
    — The danger of wounds of the extremities consists in the injury done to the blood-vessels, nerves, articulations, and bones.

词形变化

extremities plural extremitys obsolete,plural

词汇关系

衍生词
extremital
相关词
extreme extremely extremeness extremism extremist

词源

From Middle English extremite, from Old French extremité, from Latin extrēmitātem (“extremity; border, perimeter; ending”), from extrēmīs (“furthest, extreme”) + -itās (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts (suffix forming nouns indicating a state of being); see extreme. Extrēmīs is derived from exter (“external, outward”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs (“out”)) + -issimus (superlative suffix) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *-is- (comparative suffix) + *-(t)m̥mo- (absolutive case suffix)).
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