archaic英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

The prehistoric period intermediate between the earliest period (‘Paleo-Indian’, ‘Paleo-American’, ‘American‐paleolithic’, etc.) of human presence in the Western Hemisphere, and the most recent prehistoric period (‘Woodland’, etc.). US,capitalized,usually

— … Archaic Stage … the stage of migratory hunting and gathering cultures continuing into environmental conditions approximately those of the present.
(A member of) an archaic variety of Homo sapiens.

— [...] prefer the third explanation for the advanced-looking features of Neandertals (Chapter 7) and the Ngandong hominins (Chapter 6), but they have had little to say about the post-Erectine archaics from China.

形容词 adj.

Of or characterized by antiquity; old-fashioned, quaint, antiquated.

— A person familiar with the dialect of certain portions of Massachusetts will not fail to recognize, in ordinary discourse, many words now noted in English vocabularies as archaic, the greater part of which were in common use about the time of the King James translation of the Bible. Shakespeare stands less in need of a glossary to most New Englanders than to many a native of the Old Country.
No longer in ordinary use, though still used occasionally to give a sense of antiquity and still likely to be understood by well-educated speakers and are found in historical texts.

— The language of the Faerie Queene was made archaic Language:— in order to be in keeping with the chivalry of bygone ages that formed its subject.
Belonging to the archaic period.

词形变化

archaics plural archaïc alternative,archaic archaick alternative,obsolete archaeic alternative,hypercorrect,obsolete archæic alternative,hypercorrect,obsolete more archaic comparative most archaic superlative archaïc alternative,archaic archaick alternative,obsolete archaeic alternative,hypercorrect,obsolete archæic alternative,hypercorrect,obsolete

词汇关系

近义词

dated obsolete old fashioned

衍生词

archaical archaically archaicism archaicity archaicize archaicness archaic smile archaicy archaism archaist hyperarchaic nonarchaic pseudo-archaic superarchaic unarchaic

词源

词源 1

From archaism (“ancient or obsolete phrase or expression”) or from French archaïque, ultimately from Ancient Greek ἀρχαϊκός (arkhaïkós, “old-fashioned”), from ἀρχαῖος (arkhaîos, “from the beginning, antiquated, ancient, old”), from ἀρχή (arkhḗ, “beginning, origin”), from ἄρχω (árkhō, “to be first”), from ἄρχω (árkhō, “to begin”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ergʰ- (“to begin, rule, command”).

词源 2

From archaism (“ancient or obsolete phrase or expression”) or from French archaïque, ultimately from Ancient Greek ἀρχαϊκός (arkhaïkós, “old-fashioned”), from ἀρχαῖος (arkhaîos, “from the beginning, antiquated, ancient, old”), from ἀρχή (arkhḗ, “beginning, origin”), from ἄρχω (árkhō, “to be first”), from ἄρχω (árkhō, “to begin”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ergʰ- (“to begin, rule, command”).