hearse

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /hɜːs/    美 /hɝs/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies.
  2. Alternative form of hearst (“A hind (female deer) in the second or third year of her age”). alt-of,alternative
  3. A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument.
    — underneath this sable hearse
  4. A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave.
    — Set down, set down your honourable load, / If honour may be shrouded in a hearse.
  5. A carriage or vehicle specially adapted or used for transporting a dead person to the place of funeral or to the grave.
动词 v.
  1. To enclose in a hearse; to entomb. dated
    — I would my daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear! would she were hearsed at my foot, and the ducats in her coffin!

词形变化

hearses plural herse alternative hearses present,singular,third-person hearsing participle,present hearsed participle,past hearsed past herse alternative hearses plural

词汇关系

衍生词
enhearse hearsecloth hearseless hearselike
相关词
rehearse

词源

From Middle English herse, hers, herce, from Old French herce in the sense "triangular framework used to support candles". Ultimately the same word as Old French herce (“harrow”), from Latin *herpicem, accusative singular of *herpex, a variant form of hirpex (“harrow”). The agricultural device's name comes from Oscan hirpus (“wolf”), a reference to a harrow's many teeth. The term for wolf may ultimately be from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰers- (“stiff, rigid, bristled”). The Oscan term is related to Latin hīrsūtus (“bristly, shaggy”), whence English hirsute.
The TLFi considers the "framework to support candles" sense of the French word to be derived more specifically from Medieval Latin hercia; in any case, this is ultimately from the same source. (Du Cange sees in hercia a contraction of an extended form *herpicia. It may instead simply be a Latinization of Old French herce.) Doublet of herse (“kind of gate”).
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