quaintrelle

发音

US /kweɪnˈtɹɛl/
其它
UK /kweɪnˈtɹɛl/
US /-ˈtʃɹɛl/
UK /-ˈtʃɹɛl/

词形变化

quaintrelles 复数 quaintrelles

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A woman who is focused on style and leisurely pastimes.

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词源

Borrowed from Late Middle English queyntrelle (“person of fashion”), from Middle French cointerelle, from Middle French cointerel (“vain”) + -elle, -ele (suffix forming feminine diminutive nouns), possibly influenced by quaint. Cointerel is derived from cointe (“clever, intelligent; quaint”), from Latin cognitus (“known, recognized; acknowledged, noted”), the perfect passive participle of cōgnōscō (“to be acquainted (with), recognize; to learn; to know”), from con- (prefix meaning ‘with’) + (g)nōscō (“to know, recognize”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (“to know”) + *-sḱéti (suffix forming durative or iterative imperfective verbs from roots)).

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