英语词汇rankle的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

rankle. Rankle derives from Latin dracunculus, “little snake or dragon.” It came to mean “festering sore” in French, per- haps because such sores sometimes resemble a little snake, or a coiled little snake, or the bite of a snake. In any case, raon- cler, an alternative form of French draoncles, “to fester,” passed into English about 1200 and over the years changed in spell- ing to rankle. Rankle held on to its literal meaning of “to fes- ter” but also came to mean “to cause persistent irritation or resentment.”

词汇	rankle
词源	rankle. Rankle derives from Latin dracunculus, “little snake or dragon.” It came to mean “festering sore” in French, per- haps because such sores sometimes resemble a little snake, or a coiled little snake, or the bite of a snake. In any case, raon- cler, an alternative form of French draoncles, “to fester,” passed into English about 1200 and over the years changed in spell- ing to rankle. Rankle held on to its literal meaning of “to fes- ter” but also came to mean “to cause persistent irritation or resentment.”
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