hymeneal

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /hʌɪməˈniːəl/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A hymn, song or poem in honour of a wedding.
    — For her white virgins hymeneals sing, / To sounds of heav'nly harps she dies away, / And melts in visions of eternal day.
形容词 adj.
  1. Pertaining to marriage.
    — I consider these more as the privileges of age, than as part of the hymeneal dowry.
  2. Pertaining to sexual relations.
    — Although the whole earth, not we alone, is moved by passions hymeneal, and everything terrestrial has come into being by the one common road, yet there is that ridiculous tendency to close the eyes and turn away the head as if there were something unclean in nature itself.
  3. Of or pertaining to the hymen.
    — ‘It doesn't seem to qualify as a haemorrhage,’ he said, with his usual cocky certainty. ‘Just heavy hymeneal bleeding, I'd say.’

词形变化

more hymeneal comparative most hymeneal superlative hymeneals plural

词汇关系

衍生词
hymeneally unhymeneal
相关词
matrimonial nuptial

词源

词源 1
From Latin hymenaeus (from Ancient Greek ὑμεναῖος (humenaîos, “matrimonial”)) + -al. Compare hymen.
词源 2
From Latin hymenaeus (from Ancient Greek ὑμεναῖος (humenaîos, “matrimonial”)) + -al. Compare hymen.
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