英语词汇vampire的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

vampire. Vampire is one of the few English words of Hun- garian origin. It comes from the Magyar vampir and is infre- quently spelled that way, although its ultimate source may be the Turkish uber, “witch.” This word for a creature of the living dead, “a reanimated corpse” that spends its nights searching for human blood to quaff, is first recorded in English in 1734, and is the same in Russian, Polish, Czechoslovakian, Serbian, and Bulgarian. The term vampire was popularized by Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) and some 47 spinoffs on the novel.

词汇	vampire
词源	vampire. Vampire is one of the few English words of Hun- garian origin. It comes from the Magyar vampir and is infre- quently spelled that way, although its ultimate source may be the Turkish uber, “witch.” This word for a creature of the living dead, “a reanimated corpse” that spends its nights searching for human blood to quaff, is first recorded in English in 1734, and is the same in Russian, Polish, Czechoslovakian, Serbian, and Bulgarian. The term vampire was popularized by Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) and some 47 spinoffs on the novel.
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