swart

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈswɔːt/    美 /ˈswɔɹt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Black or dark dyestuff. UK,dialectal
  2. Obsolete spelling of sward. alt-of,obsolete,uncountable
    — Howbeit where the rocks and quarrie grounds are, I take the swart of the earth to be so thin, that no tree of anie greatnesse, other than shrubs and bushes, is able to grow or prosper long therein for want of sufficient moisture wherewith to feed them with fresh humour, or at the leastwise of mould […]
  3. Variant of swath. Ireland,alt-of,alternative,dialectal
动词 v.
  1. To make swart or tawny; blacken; tan. transitive
    — to swart a living part
形容词 adj.
  1. Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny.
    — 1400s: Thomas Occleve, Hymns to the Virgin Men schalle then sone se / Att mydday hytt shalle swarte be
  2. Black. UK,dialectal
  3. Gloomy; malignant. obsolete
    — Suddenly the swart figure of Time stood up before the gods, with both hands dripping with blood and a red sword dangling idly from his fingers, and said: “Sardathrion is gone! I have overthrown it!”

词形变化

swarter comparative swartest superlative swarts present,singular,third-person swarting participle,present swarted participle,past swarted past swarts plural

词汇关系

衍生词
swarten swarty
相关词
forswart swartness

词源

词源 1
From Middle English swart, from Old English sweart, from Proto-West Germanic *swart, from Proto-Germanic *swartaz, from Proto-Indo-European *swerd-. Doublet of Schwarz.
词源 2
From Middle English swarten, from Old English sweartian, from Proto-West Germanic *swartōn, from Proto-Germanic *swartōną. By surface analysis, swart + -en.
词源 3
Variant of sward.
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