inscription

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of inscribing. countable,uncountable
    — The inscription of the Temple of Preah Vihear on the World Heritage list shall be without prejudice to the rights of the Kingdom of Cambodia and the Kingdom of Thailand on the demarcation works of the Joint Commission for Land Boundary (JBC) of the two countries;
  2. Text carved on a wall or plaque, such as a memorial or gravestone, or on some other item. countable,uncountable
    — He had battled like a man, and gotten a man's reward — no silver tea-pots or salvers, with flowery inscriptions setting forth his virtues and the appreciation of a genteel parish; […]
  3. The text on a coin. countable,uncountable
    — The coin bears an inscription in Latin.
  4. Words written in the front of a book as a dedication. countable,uncountable

词形变化

inscriptions plural

词汇关系

近义词
epigraphy
衍生词
inscriptional inscriptioned inscriptionist inscriptionless reinscription
相关词
epigraph

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Italic *en
Proto-Italic *en-
Latin in-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-?
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreybʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kréybʰeti
Proto-Italic *skreiβō
Latin scrībō
Latin inscrībō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin īnscrīptiōbor.
English inscription
Borrowed from Latin īnscrīptiō.
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