lign-aloes

短语

别名

lign aloe lignaloe lignum aloes ligne aloes linaloa linaloe

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    agalloch, aloes

  2. 2.

    agarwood, trees of the genus Aquilaria, especially the species Aquilaria malaccensis

    c. 1380 "Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Book IV, line 1135ff. The woful teeris that they leten falle As bittre weren out of teris kynde, ffor peyne, as is ligne aloes or galle:

词源

Inherited from Middle English, from Middle French lignalöé, from Latin lignum + aloes. Compare lign-. The -s originates in the Latin genitive case, but it seems to have been reinterpreted as an English plural form.

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