wargus

发音

/ˈwɔː(ɹ)ɡəs/

词形变化

wargi 复数 wargi

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An outlaw, outcast, or exile; one driven out of society for their crimes.

    历史

    The Old Norse word for wolf (vargr) was also the legal term for “outlaw”—that is, the wolf is that person who is outside the law. In ancient Germanic law, the term wargus was used to refer to both the outlaw and the wolf-man.]

词源

From Anglo-Latin wargus, from wearg, wearh (“outlaw, criminal”), from Proto-West Germanic *warg, from Proto-Germanic *wargaz (“criminal, wolfish individual”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to twist, bend, crook”).

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