European

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
/(ˌ)jʊə.ɹəˈpiː.ən/|/(ˌ)jʊə.ɹəˈpɪ.ən/    /ˌjʊɹ.əˈpi.ən/|/ˌjɝ.əˈpi.ən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person living or originating from Europe.
    — Until the close of the early modern era, Western Europeans on most evenings experienced two major intervals of sleep bridged by up to an hour or more of quiet wakefulness. […] The initial interval of slumber was usually referred to as “first sleep,” or, less often, “first nap” or “dead sleep.”
  2. A person who resides within the European Union.
形容词 adj.
  1. Related to Europe.
    — By the time this mysterious knight died in the 1360s, his book was available in every European language, including Dutch, Gaelic, Czech, Catalan, and Walloon.
  2. Related to the European Union.
  3. Of white ethnicity.
    — Stamps like this were common on furniture made in Australia in the first half of last century, when there were a number of Chinese furniture makers in Australia who were seen as competition to 'European Australian' makers.
  4. That can be exercised only at the expiry date. not-comparable
    — All of these trade on the Chicago Board Options Exchange. Most of the contracts are European. An exception is the OEX contract on the S&P 100, which is American.

词形变化

more European comparative most European superlative Europaean alternative,obsolete Europæan alternative,obsolete Europeans plural Europaean alternative,obsolete Europæan alternative,obsolete

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Ancient Greek Εὐρώπᾱ (Eurṓpā)
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Ancient Greek -ῐος (-ĭos)
Ancient Greek Εὐρωπαῖος (Eurōpaîos)bor.
Classical Latin Eurōpaeus
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Classical Latin -nus
Classical Latin -ānus
New Latin Eurōpaeānusbor.
French européenbor.
English European
Borrowed from French européen, itself from New Latin Eurōpaeānus, from the secondary stem Eurōpae- extracted from the Classical Latin adjective Eurōpaeus [from Ancient Greek Εὐρωπαῖος (Eurōpaîos, “European”), from Εὐρώπᾱ (Eurṓpā, “Europe”) + -ῐος (-ĭos, suffix forming adjectives)] + -ānus (“-an”).
By surface analysis, Europ(e) + -ean.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Ancient Greek Εὐρώπᾱ (Eurṓpā)
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Ancient Greek -ῐος (-ĭos)
Ancient Greek Εὐρωπαῖος (Eurōpaîos)bor.
Classical Latin Eurōpaeus
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Classical Latin -nus
Classical Latin -ānus
New Latin Eurōpaeānusbor.
French européenbor.
English European
Borrowed from French européen, itself from New Latin Eurōpaeānus, from the secondary stem Eurōpae- extracted from the Classical Latin adjective Eurōpaeus [from Ancient Greek Εὐρωπαῖος (Eurōpaîos, “European”), from Εὐρώπᾱ (Eurṓpā, “Europe”) + -ῐος (-ĭos, suffix forming adjectives)] + -ānus (“-an”).
By surface analysis, Europ(e) + -ean.
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