obit

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈɒbɪt/|/ˈəʊbɪt/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The death of a person. archaic
  2. An obituary. colloquial
    — So a proposed US series, called Circling the Drain, is certainly breaking new ground. It involves a 25-year-old reporter (played by Caprica's Alessandra Torresani) who is reassigned from a paper's style section to its obits desk.
  3. A mass or other service held for the soul of a dead person. historical
    — Medieval wills often contained bequests to pay for the singing of special (non-perpetual) masses on the testator's behalf. These obits, as they were called, combined alms for the poor with masses for the dead.
  4. A record of a person's death.

词形变化

obits plural obits plural

词汇关系

衍生词
post-obit

词源

词源 1
From Anglo-Norman obit, Middle French obit, and their source, Latin obitus (“going down; death”), from obīre (“to go down, to die”).
词源 2
Clipping of obituary.
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