英语词汇album的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	album
词源	album. The Romans called the white tablet on which edicts were written an album, from the Latin albus, “white.” In En- glish album came to mean any empty book for entering or stor- ing things, especially photographs, only the wedding album still being traditionally white. A record album, a collection of songs, derives from the same root.
随便看	mennonites menorah men seldom make passes / at girls who wear glasses menshevik mentor men with beards meow mercator-s projection mercedes-benz mercerize merchant merchants of death mercurial mercury meretricious meriden audience meritocracy mermaid mermaid-s glove mermaid-s purses merrily merrily merrimack merry andrew merry-go-round merrythought

英语词源词典收录了13259条英语词源词条，基本涵盖了全部常用英语词汇的起源、历史，是研究英语词汇或通过词源学英语的必备工具。