| 词汇 | cantab |
| 词源 | Cantab; Cantabrigian. Cantabrigian has been since about 1645 a synonym for a resident of Cambridge, England, deriving from the Latin Cantabrigia for “Cambridge.” Hence the word has long meant Cambridge or Harvard (in Cambridge, Massachu- setts) students who are more commonly called Cantabs, even this shortened form dating back to early 18th-century England. |
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