aunt是什么意思_aunt怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

aunt: aunt: [13] Aunt appears to come ultimately from *amma, a hypothetical non-Indo-European word for ‘mother’ (parallel to Indo-European *mammā, and like it reproducing syllables perceived to be uttered by babies), which at some point was borrowed into Latin. It first appears in the derived form amita ‘paternal aunt’, which passed into English via Old French ante (of which modern French tante is an alternation) and Anglo-Norman aunte.
aunt (n.): c. 1300, from Anglo-French aunte, Old French ante (Modern French tante, from a 13c. variant), from Latin amita "paternal aunt" diminutive of *amma a baby-talk word for "mother" (cognates: Greek amma "mother," Old Norse amma "grandmother," Middle Irish ammait "old hag," Hebrew em, Arabic umm "mother").

Extended senses include "an old woman, a gossip" (1580s); "a procuress" (1670s); and "any benevolent woman," in American English, where auntie was recorded since c. 1790 as "a term often used in accosting elderly women." The French word also has become the word for "aunt" in Dutch, German (Tante), and Danish. Swedish has retained the original Germanic (and Indo-European) custom of distinguishing aunts by separate terms derived from "father"s sister" (faster) and "mother"s sister" (moster). The Old English equivalents were faðu and modrige. In Latin, too, the formal word for "aunt on mother"s side" was matertera. Some languages have a separate term for aunts-in-law as opposed to blood relations.

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复数 aunts;

1. She looks disconcertingly like a familiar aunt or grandmother.: 令人疑惑的是，她看上去就像一位面熟的邻家阿姨或是祖母。

3. The studio is midway between his aunt"s old home and his cottage.: 工作室就在从他姑姑的老宅到他的小屋的中途。

5. Her Aunt Sallie gave her an uncharacteristically extravagant gift.: 萨莉姨妈送给她一件贵得离谱的礼物。

Aunt Sally Aunt Salli...

Aunt Tabby 塔贝大婶（不支持妇女...

Aunt Jemima 杰迈玛大婶(对白人俯...

Aunt Jane 珍妮大婶

great-aunt 婶祖母

maiden aunt 未结婚的姑妈; 姨妈...

agony aunt 在读者来信专栏回答来...

Aunt Flo 例假

go and see one"s aunt 上厕所

Aunt Thomasina 汤姆西娜大婶...

Aunt Tom 汤姆大婶; 不支持妇...

paternal aunt 姑母

Aunt Flo Aunt Flo【俚】女人的月经期

agnoy aunt <英口>知心姐姐（指报刊上“为您解忧”专栏中负责答复读者来信的人）

Aunt Sally n. Aunt Sallies （作为投掷游戏靶子的）女人头像

Aunt Tom 汤姆大婶(指逆来顺受的女人)

maiden aunt (未婚)姑妈(或姨妈)

agony aunt n. 在读者来信专栏回答来信的人

go and see one’s aunt go and see one’s aunt是俚语，常用于英国英语，表示“上厕所”“去大便”。

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