英语词汇precipice的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	precipice
词源	precipice [E17th] This comes via French precipice ‘steep place, danger’ from Latin praeceps ‘steep or headlong’, also the origin of precipitation [LME] which originally meant the action of falling or throwing down, rather than rainfall or snow.
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