英语词汇venison的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	venison
词源	venison. Venison comes from the Latin venatio, “hunting,” and was formerly applied to the flesh of any animal killed in the hunt and used as food. The word is first recorded in the early 14th century and gradually came to mean only the meat of deer. The venison mentioned in Genesis is wild goat.
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