richdom

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Wealth; riches; richness; prosperity. rare,uncountable,usually
    — Free nature in her inexhaustible richdom of forms can never be fettered into the narrow bounds, which we may assign to any of our technic definitions.

词形变化

richdoms plural rychedome alternative,obsolete

词源

Probably a calque of a similar formation in a continental West Germanic language, such as Dutch rijkdom (“wealth”) or German Reichtum (“wealth”); equivalent to rich + -dom.
Compare Middle English richedom (“wealth, riches”), Old English rīċedōm (“dominion”), Swedish rikedom (“wealth, richness”), and Icelandic ríkidómur (“riches, power”).
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