| 词汇 | congregate |
| 词源 | congregate [LME] The Latin word for a herd or flock was grex, giving congregare, meaning ‘to collect into a herd or flock, to unite’. Gregarious [M17th], meaning ‘fond of company’, is also descended from grex, as are aggregate [LME] ‘herd together’; egregious [M16th] ‘standing out from the herd’ and originally complimentary; and segregate [M16th] ‘set apart from the herd’. |
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