pavid

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. fearful, timid
    — Their multitudes might inspire even their pavid nature with courage to attack, and brought to my fancy the fate of that unhappy prisoner who, thrown into a blind dungeon, was in one night literally devoured by rats.

词形变化

more pavid comparative most pavid superlative

词源

Etymology tree
Latin paveō
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idus
Latin pavidusbor.
English pavid
From Latin pavidus, from paveō (“to fear”).
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