self-sacrifice

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The giving up of one's own benefit for the good of others. countable,uncountable
    — Caring for a loved one with a chronic illness inevitably involves self-sacrifice.
  2. The act of making the ultimate sacrifice of giving up one's life for a cause. countable,uncountable
    — His brave self-sacrifice won him a posthumous medal, but I think he'd have preferred to receive it in person.

词形变化

self-sacrifices plural

词汇关系

相关词
self-sacrificer self-sacrificing self-sacrificingly

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
Proto-Indo-European *seh₂k-
Proto-Indo-European *-rós
Proto-Indo-European *sh₂krós
Proto-Italic *sakros
Old Latin sacros
Latin sacerder.
Latin sacrum
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti
Proto-Italic *θakjō
Proto-Italic *fakjō
Latin faciō
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ium
Latin sacrificiumlbor.
Old French sacrifisebor.
Middle English sacrifice
English sacrifice
English self-sacrifice
From self- + sacrifice.
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