英语词汇excruciating的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

excruciating. Agonizing, extremely painful, unbearably dis- tressing, exceedingly elaborate. The word comes from the Latin cruciare, to crucify or torture, which derives ultimately from the Latin crux, cross. Excruciating came into the English lan- guage in about 1655, while excruciate is first recorded about a century earlier. Crucifixion, to execute a person by nailing him to the cross, often practiced by the Romans, also derives from the Latin crux, cross, and the Crucifixion, capitalized, refers to the killing of Jesus in this way. See crucial.

词汇	excruciating
词源	excruciating. Agonizing, extremely painful, unbearably dis- tressing, exceedingly elaborate. The word comes from the Latin cruciare, to crucify or torture, which derives ultimately from the Latin crux, cross. Excruciating came into the English lan- guage in about 1655, while excruciate is first recorded about a century earlier. Crucifixion, to execute a person by nailing him to the cross, often practiced by the Romans, also derives from the Latin crux, cross, and the Crucifixion, capitalized, refers to the killing of Jesus in this way. See crucial.
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