fifteener

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A film assigned an age rating of 15, those under 15 not being permitted to view it. UK,informal
    — Not intensely bloody decapitation, but the sort of violence you'd see in a fifteener.
  2. A book or other printed item that was printed in the 15th century (thus, during the first half-century of printing). informal
    — When here and there throughout those volumes you meet with titles of books now either unknown entirely or of the greatest rarity; when you find the Colophon from the end or the "insignum typographi" from the first leaf of a rare "fifteener" pasted down with dozens of others varying in value, you cannot bless the memory of the antiquarian shoemaker, John Bagford.

词形变化

fifteeners plural

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe
Proto-Germanic *fimf
Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥
Proto-Germanic *tehun
Proto-Germanic *fimftehun
Anglian Old English fīftīene
Middle English fiftene
English fifteen
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English fifteener
From fifteen + -er.
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