英语词汇vainglorious的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	vainglorious
词源	vainglorious adj. early 15c., from vainglory + -ous, or from Old French vain glorios "boastful, swaggering." Related: Vaingloriously; vaingloriousness. Grose ("Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue," 3rd ed., 1796) has vain-glorious man "One who boasts without reason, or, as the canters say, pisses more than he drinks." Entries linking to vainglorious vainglory n. c. 1200, "worthless glory, undue pomp or show," waynglori, from Old French vaine glorie, from Medieval Latin vana gloria (see vain + glory (n.)). -ous word-forming element making adjectives from nouns, meaning "having, full of, having to do with, doing, inclined to," from Old French -ous, -eux, from Latin -osus (compare -ose (1)). In chemistry, "having a lower valence than forms expressed in -ic." updated on May 29, 2017
随便看	gatherer gathering gatling gun gator gatt gau gauche gaucherie gaucho gaud gaudery gaudily gaudiness gaudy gauge gaul gaulish gaunt gauntlet gauss gautama gauze gauzy gavage gave

英语词源词典收录了45867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。

vainglorious adj.