scythe

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An instrument for mowing grass, grain, etc. by hand, composed of a long, curving blade with a sharp concave edge, fastened to a long handle called a snath.
    — And nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defence Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence.
  2. A scythe-shaped blade attached to ancient war chariots. historical
  3. The tenth Lenormand card.
动词 v.
  1. To use a scythe. intransitive
  2. To cut with a scythe. transitive
  3. To cut off as with a scythe; to mow. transitive
  4. To attack or injure as if cutting. figuratively,intransitive,often
    — The boy began to keen, and the high-pitched noise scythed through Song's head.

词形变化

scythes plural sithe alternative,archaic sythe alternative,archaic zive alternative scythes present,singular,third-person scything participle,present scythed participle,past scythed past sithe alternative,archaic sythe alternative,archaic zive alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
nature's scythe scytheman scythe down scyther

词源

词源 1
From Middle English sythe, sithe, from Old English sīþe, sīgþe, sigdi (“sickle”), from Proto-West Germanic *sigiþi, from Proto-Germanic *sigiþiz, *sigiþō, derived from *seg- (“saw”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”).
Immediate Germanic cognates include Middle Low German sēgede, Dutch zicht, Icelandic sigð (all “sickle”). More distantly related with Dutch zeis, German Sense (both “scythe”). Also akin to English saw, which see.
The silent c crept in during the early 15th century owing to folk-etymological association with Medieval Latin scissor (“tailor, carver”), from Latin scindō (“to cut, rend, split”).
The verb, which was first used in the intransitive sense, is from the noun.
词源 2
From Middle English sythe, sithe, from Old English sīþe, sīgþe, sigdi (“sickle”), from Proto-West Germanic *sigiþi, from Proto-Germanic *sigiþiz, *sigiþō, derived from *seg- (“saw”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”).
Immediate Germanic cognates include Middle Low German sēgede, Dutch zicht, Icelandic sigð (all “sickle”). More distantly related with Dutch zeis, German Sense (both “scythe”). Also akin to English saw, which see.
The silent c crept in during the early 15th century owing to folk-etymological association with Medieval Latin scissor (“tailor, carver”), from Latin scindō (“to cut, rend, split”).
The verb, which was first used in the intransitive sense, is from the noun.
0 次浏览 数据来源: Wiktionary