quaintrelle

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /kweɪnˈtɹɛl/|[-ˈtʃɹɛl]    美 /kweɪnˈtɹɛl/|[-ˈtʃɹɛl]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A woman who is focused on style and leisurely pastimes. archaic,rare
    — It folweth nouht that thouh j be thus kembt and a litel make the queyntrelle that for swich cause j am fair
    It followeth not that though I be thus kempt [neat and tidy], and a little make the quaintrelle, that for such cause I am fair

词形变化

quaintrelles plural

词源

Borrowed from Late Middle English queyntrelle (“person of fashion”), from Middle French cointerelle, from Middle French cointerel (“vain”) + -elle, -ele (suffix forming feminine diminutive nouns), possibly influenced by quaint. Cointerel is derived from cointe (“clever, intelligent; quaint”), from Latin cognitus (“known, recognized; acknowledged, noted”), the perfect passive participle of cōgnōscō (“to be acquainted (with), recognize; to learn; to know”), from con- (prefix meaning ‘with’) + (g)nōscō (“to know, recognize”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (“to know”) + *-sḱéti (suffix forming durative or iterative imperfective verbs from roots)).
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