Maine

专有名词
中文释义
英 /meɪn/    美 /meɪn/

英文释义

专有名词
  1. A former province of Pays de la Loire, France. Capital: Le Mans. error-lua-exec
  2. A river in Maine-et-Loire department, Pays de la Loire, France, a tributary of the Loire, flowing 12 km through the city of Angers from the confluence of the Mayenne and Sarthe into the Loire.
  3. A Scottish and English surname from Old French, a variant of Main.
  4. A river in County Kerry, Ireland, flowing 43 km from Tobermaing into the Atlantic at Castlemaine.
  5. A male given name from Old Irish, of historical usage, notably borne by Irish kings Maine mac Cerbaill and Maine mac Néill.
  6. Alternative form of Main: A river in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. alt-of,alternative
  7. A state of the United States; probably named for the province in France. Capital: Augusta. Largest city: Portland. error-lua-exec
    — These first English migrants to Jamestown endured terrible disease and arrived during a period of drought and colder-than-normal winters. The migrants to Roanoke on the outer banks of Carolina, where the English had gone in the 1580s, disappeared. And a brief effort to settle the coast of Maine in 1607 and 1608 failed because of an unusually bitter winter.
  8. A village in Marathon County, Wisconsin; named for county sheriff Uriah E. Maine.
  9. A town in New York. error-lua-exec
  10. A town in Outagamie County, Wisconsin; named for the state. error-lua-exec
  11. A river in Maine, United States, flowing 5.5 miles from Pocomoonshine Lake in Princeton into Crawford Lake in Crawford. error-lua-exec
  12. University of Maine. error-lua-exec

词源

词源 1
The US state is from French Maine, named by its French explorers after the province in France with the same name; unrelated to the name of the river that flows through it. From Old French Cemaine, from Latin *Cenomania, from the name of the Gaulish Cenomani tribe of Gallia Celtica. The word was rebracketed as ce (“this”) + Maine, and the ce- was lost by the 12th century.
词源 2
From French Maine, from earlier Maienne, from Latin Meduāna, of uncertain origin. Doublet of Mayenne. Unrelated to the French province of the same name.
词源 3
From Irish An Mhaing
词源 4
From Old Irish Maine.
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