fiend

C1 FREQ #13760

n. 魔鬼, 邪神, 能手, 成癖者

发音

US /fiːnd/

词形变化

fiends 复数 fiends fiended fiending fiends 三单 fiending 现在分词 fiended 过去式 fiended 过去分词

别名

feend fein feind fend

释义与例句

n. C1
  1. 1.

    A devil or demon; a malignant or diabolical being; an evil spirit.

    恶魔

  2. 2.

    A very evil person.

    恶魔般的人

  3. 3.

    An enemy; a foe.

    废旧

    We waited for our fiend to arrive.

  4. 4.

    The enemy of mankind, specifically, the Devil; Satan.

    古体
  5. 5.

    An addict or fanatic.

    迷

    非正式

    dope fiend

    He's been a jazz fiend since his teenage years.

v.
  1. 1.

    To yearn; to be desperate.

    不及物 俚语

词汇关系

名词

同义词 7

devil monster demon ogre fanatic daimon daemon

上位词 3

partisan enthusiast partizan

下位词 6

succubus demoniac dibbuk dybbuk incubus succuba

相关短语

dope fiend 有毒瘾的人 [医] 药瘾者 drug fiend lubber fiend spice fiend

词源

From Middle English fend, feend (“enemy; demon”), from Old English fēond (“enemy”), Proto-West Germanic *fijand, from Proto-Germanic *fijandz. Cognates Cognate with Scots fient (“fiend”), Saterland Frisian Fäind (“enemy, fiend, foe”), Cimbrian faint (“enemy, fiend”), Dutch vijand (“enemy”), German Feind (“enemy, fiend, foe”), Vilamovian faeind, fajnd (“enemy”), Yiddish פֿײַנד (faynd), פֿײַנט (faynt, “enemy”), Danish fjende (“adversary, enemy, foe”), Icelandic fjandi (“enemy; fiend, demon, devil”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish fiende (“enemy”), Old Norse fjándi (“enemy; devil”), Gothic 𐍆𐌹𐌰𐌽𐌳𐍃 (fiands), 𐍆𐌹𐌾𐌰𐌽𐌳𐍃 (fijands, “enemy, foe”). The Old Norse and Gothic terms are present participles of the corresponding verbs fjá/𐍆𐌹𐌾𐌰𐌽 (fijan, “to hate”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₁- (“to hate”) (compare Sanskrit पीयति (pī́yati, “(he) reviles”)).

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