词汇 | cardinal |
词源 | cardinal [OE] The connection between a cardinal, ‘a senior Roman Catholic priest’, and cardinal [ME], ‘fundamental, most important’, is a door hinge. The word derives from Latin cardinalis, from cardo ‘hinge’, and its senses share the idea of something being of pivotal importance, on which everything else turns or depends. |
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