英语词汇atavism的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	atavism
词源	atavism [M19th] Atavism, the tendency to revert to ancestral type, comes from the Latin atavus, ‘a great-grandfather’s grandfather’, also used more generally for an ancestor. This was formed from at- ‘beyond’ and avus ‘grandfather’.
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