英语词汇myriad的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	myriad
词源	myriad. Before million was introduced in about the 12th century the largest number word was myriad, which derives from a Greek word meaning countless, infinite, and was then Greek for 10,000. One ancient eclessiastical historian wrote of “a hundred and ten myriads” (1,100,000) slain and starved to death over a certain period, and Archimedes wrote of the myriads of myriads of myriads of poppy seeds in the world. Today myriad is used chiefly to mean countless or innumerable.
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