wraith
FREQ #12451
n. 生魂, 幻影, 幽灵
发音
US
/ɹeɪθ/
词形变化
wraiths
复数
wraiths
释义与例句
n.
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1.
A ghost or specter, especially a person's likeness seen just after their death.
鬼魂
幽灵
幽魂
词汇关系
词源
Borrowed from Middle Scots wraith, first attested in 1513 in a translation of the Aeneid. The word has no certain etymology; it may be a transferred use of Middle Scots wraith, wrath (nominally "anger, rage", adjectivally "angry, wrathful"), thus connecting it to writhe and making it a doublet of wrath and wroth. Century Dictionary compares Old Norse vǫrðr (“guardian”); Klein compares Irish arrachd (“apparition”), which is related to riochd (“shape, likeness”).
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