词汇 | chimney |
词源 | chimney [ME] A chimney was at first ‘a fireplace or furnace’ and comes via Old French from late Latin caminata, perhaps from camera caminata ‘room with a fireplace’, via Latin caminus ‘forge, furnace’ from Greek kaminos ‘oven’. |
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