英语词汇billiards的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	billiards
词源	billiards n. game played on as rectangular table with ivory balls and wooden sticks, 1590s, from French billiard, originally the word for the wooden cue stick, a diminutive of Old French bille "stick of wood," from Medieval Latin billia "tree, trunk," which is possibly from Gaulish (compare Irish bile "tree trunk"). Entries linking to billiards billiard singular of billiards, used only in combinations (such as billiard-ball, 1630s, billiard-table 1640s). bullion n. mid-14c., "uncoined gold or silver," from Anglo-French bullion, Old French billon "bar of precious metal," also "place where coins are made, mint," from Old French bille "stick, block of wood" (see billiards), influenced by Old French boillir "to boil," from Latin bullire "boil" (see boil (v.)), through the notion of "melting." updated on May 29, 2017
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