词汇 | crow-french nightingale-french |
词源 | Crow-French, Nightingale-French. Founding the Dupont Company wasn’t enough for Pierre-Samuel Du Pont de Ne- mours (1739–1817), the eccentric French aristocrat who had immigrated to the United States. An avid naturalist and bird- watcher he also compiled two dictionaries in 1807, entitling them Crow-French and Nightingale-French. In them he gave what he called the French translations of the various calls of the crow and nightingale. See cat and dog talk. |
随便看 |
|
英语词源词典收录了13259条英语词源词条,基本涵盖了全部常用英语词汇的起源、历史,是研究英语词汇或通过词源学英语的必备工具。