darkling

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Darkness. rare,uncountable
    — She carried some rugs for me through the shrubbery in the darkling. "They'll think we've gone mooning," she said, jerking her head at the household. "I wonder what they make of us – criminals."
  2. A child of darkness; someone dark by nature or who has grown dark in character. obsolete
  3. A creature that lives in the dark.
  4. A demon. poetic
动词 v.
  1. present participle and gerund of darkle form-of,gerund,participle,present
形容词 adj.
  1. Dark; growing dark; darkening. not-comparable,poetic
    — She still pursued its flight, with all the speed / Her fainting strength had hitherto supplied: / What pathless wilds she crossed ! What forests darkling wide !
  2. Obscure; taking place unseen, as if in the dark. figuratively,not-comparable
副词 adv.
  1. In the dark; in obscurity. not-comparable
    — So, out went the candle, and we were left darkling.

词形变化

darklings plural

词源

词源 1
From Middle English derkelyng. By surface analysis, dark + -ling.
词源 2
Coined by Irish poet Mary Tighe in 1805, likely as an extension of the adverbial sense, and popularized by John Keats.
词源 3
From darkle + -ing, darkle itself a backformation from Tighe's adjectival sense.
词源 4
Etymology tree
English dark
Proto-Indo-European *-lósder.
Proto-Germanic *-ilaz
Proto-Indo-European *-n̥kʷo-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Germanic *-īnaz
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
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Proto-Germanic *-ingaz
Proto-Germanic *-ilingaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ling
Old English -ling
Middle English -ling
English -ling
English darkling
From dark + -ling.
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