reborrowing

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A word that passed from language A into language B and thence back into language A. Such words may have changed in meaning and/or form.
    — The word flan itself is a relatively recent addition to English, adopted on our behalf from French by the chef Alexis Soyer (a Frenchman working in England), but in that form it is in fact simply a reborrowing of a word which originally crossed the Channel in the 13th century as flawn, denoting some sort of custard tart or cheesecake.
  2. Something reborrowed.
    — The borrower will usually argue that the accordion should be considered as a reborrowing of debt already repaid, and therefore should be a redraw of tranche A first.
动词 v.
  1. present participle and gerund of reborrow form-of,gerund,participle,present

词形变化

reborrowings plural

词汇关系

相关词
borrowing twice-borrowed
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