ostent

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈɒstɛnt/    美 /ˈɑstɛnt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A display, an exhibition; an appearance, a manifestation. archaic,rare
    — Vſe all the obſeruance of ciuility, / Like one well ſtudied in a ſad oſtent / To pleaſe his Grandam, neuer truſt me more.
  2. A portent, a token. archaic,rare
    — We ask'd of God that some ostent might clear / Our cloudy business, who gave us sign.
  3. One sixtieth of an hour: a minute (60 seconds). historical,obsolete
    — […] one would be inclined to suspect some confusion in Bede's information, seeing that 40 moments and 60 ostents both are equal to an hour. I cannot find an example of the use of ostentum as a measure of time before Bede, and it is first used as one-sixtieth of an hour in 978 A.D. by Alcuin, who knows a double use.
  4. A boastful, ostentatious display or exhibition.
动词 v.
  1. To make an ambitious display of; to exhibit or show boastingly; to ostentate. ambitransitive,obsolete

词形变化

ostents present,singular,third-person ostenting participle,present ostented participle,past ostented past ostents plural ostents plural ostenta plural ostents plural

词源

词源 1
From Middle French ostenter (“to make an ostentatious display of”), or directly from its etymon Latin ostentāre (“to exhibit, present, show; to show off”), frequentative of ostendere (“to exhibit, show”), from ob- (prefix meaning ‘against; towards’) + tendere (“to extend, stretch; to distend”) (from Proto-Indo-European *tend- (“to extend, stretch”)). Doublet of ostentate.
词源 2
From Latin ostentus (“a display, exhibition, show”), from ostendere (“to exhibit, show”); see further at etymology 1.
词源 3
From Middle French ostente (“amazing or marvellous thing; prodigy, wonder”) or directly from its etymon Latin ostentum (“portent”), from ostendere (“to exhibit, show”); see further at etymology 1.
The plural form ostenta is from Latin ostenta.
词源 4
Perhaps from Latin ostentum.
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