英语词汇supercilious的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	supercilious
词源	supercilious [E16th] A supercilious person has an air of contemptuous superiority. One way they might show this is by raising their eyebrows in disdain—a clue to the word’s origin. Supercilium, the Latin source of the English word, means ‘eyebrow’ but had acquired the sense disdainful by the 6th century.
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