rune

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 ro͞on

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A letter, or character, used in the written language of various ancient Germanic peoples, especially the Scandinavians and the Anglo-Saxons.
    — Yet they made for man those mystic swords of superhuman workmanship engraved with magic runes and dipped when red hot in blood or in a broth of poisonous herbs and twigs.
  2. A letter from any visually similar script, such as Hungarian runes (the Old Hungarian script) or Turkic runes (the Old Turkic script).
  3. A Finnic or Scandinavian epic poem, or a division of one, especially a division of the Kalevala.
  4. A letter or mark used as a mystical or magic symbol.
    — And the sword that had visited Earth from so far away smote like the falling of thunderbolts [...] and the runes in Alveric’s far-travelled sword exulted, and roared at the elf-knight; until in the dark of the wood, amongst branches severed from disenchanted trees, with a blow like that of a thunderbolt riving an oak-tree, Alveric slew him.
  5. A verse or song, especially one with mystical or mysterious overtones; a spell or an incantation.
    — Where the daylight peeps thro' like the glint of the Moon, / And the branches are rustling a murmurous rune, / The Owls sit in council like prophets of Fate, / Discussing grave questions of Kingdom and State.
  6. Alternative form of roun (“secret or mystery”). alt-of,alternative,obsolete
  7. A Unicode code point.
    — Go language defines the type rune as an alias for the type int32 to represent a Unicode code point. A string in Go is a sequence of runes.
动词 v.
  1. To compose or perform poetry or songs. dated,intransitive,poetic

词形变化

runes plural runes present,singular,third-person runing participle,present runed participle,past runed past

词汇关系

衍生词
bind rune bind-rune moonrune moon rune moonrunes rune bag rune book runecarver runecast runecaster runecasting rune cloth runecraft runed runeless runelike runelore runemaster runemistress rune poem rune-rister rune-risting runesmith runesong rune spread runestaff runestave runester runestone runework runic runically runiform runish runographic runologist runology twig rune

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Celtic *rūnābor.?
Proto-Germanic *rūnō
Proto-Germanic *rūnǭ
Proto-Norse ᚱᚢᚾᛟ (runo)
Old Norse rúnbor.
English rune
Borrowed from Old Norse rún, which is from Proto-Germanic *rūnō (“letter, literature, secret”), which is borrowed either from Proto-Celtic *rūnā or from the same source as it; compare Dutch rune, German Rune, Raune, Danish rune and Swedish runa. Compare roun.
; Finnic epic poem
; "code point"
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Celtic *rūnābor.?
Proto-Germanic *rūnō
Proto-Germanic *rūnǭ
Proto-Norse ᚱᚢᚾᛟ (runo)
Old Norse rúnbor.
English rune
Borrowed from Old Norse rún, which is from Proto-Germanic *rūnō (“letter, literature, secret”), which is borrowed either from Proto-Celtic *rūnā or from the same source as it; compare Dutch rune, German Rune, Raune, Danish rune and Swedish runa. Compare roun.
; Finnic epic poem
; "code point"
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