lithe

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Shelter. Scotland
    — So Cospatric got him the Pict folk to build a strong castle there in the lithe of the hills, with the Grampians dark and bleak behind it, and he had the Den drained and he married a Pict lady and got on her bairns and he lived there till he died.
动词 v.
  1. To become calm. intransitive,obsolete
  2. To attend; listen, hearken. intransitive,obsolete
  3. to thicken (gravy, etc.) Yorkshire,archaic,dialectal
    — lithe widely used as a verb in nEng Sc and Ir, as a noun only in Cu
  4. To make soft or mild; soften; alleviate; mitigate; lessen; smooth; palliate. obsolete,transitive
    — England.. hath now suppled, lithed and stretched their throats.
  5. To listen to, hearken to. transitive
形容词 adj.
  1. Mild; calm. obsolete
    — lithe weather
  2. Slim but not skinny.
    — lithe body
  3. Capable of being easily bent; flexible.
    — the elephant’s lithe trunk.
  4. Adaptable.
    — Yet the 2016 Éxilé rosé from Lise et Bertrand Jousset in the Loire Valley, made mostly of gamay, was yeasty let^([sic – meaning yet]) light and lithe, while the 2016 Indigeno from Ancarani in Emilia-Romagna, made of trebbiano, was taut and earthy.

词形变化

lither comparative lithest superlative lithes present,singular,third-person lithing participle,present lithed participle,past lithed past lithes present,singular,third-person lithing participle,present lithed participle,past lithed past lythe alternative lithes plural lithes present,singular,third-person lithing participle,present lithed participle,past lithed past

词汇关系

衍生词
lissom lithely litheness slithy
相关词
-inda lind linden Linda

词源

词源 1
From Middle English lithe, from Old English līþe (“gentle, mild”), from Proto-West Germanic *linþ(ī), from Proto-Germanic *linþaz, from Proto-Indo-European *lentos.
Akin to Saterland Frisian lied (“thin, skinny, gaunt”), Danish, Dutch, and archaic German lind (“mild”). Some sources also list Latin lenis (“soft”) and/or Latin lentus (“supple”) as possible cognates.
词源 2
From Middle English lithen, from Old English līþian, līþigian, līþegian (“to soften, calm, mitigate, assuage, appease, be mild”), from Proto-West Germanic *linþijan, from Proto-Germanic *linþijaną (“to soften”), from Proto-Indo-European *lento- (“bendsome, resilient”). Cognate with German lindern (“to alleviate, ease, relieve”).
词源 3
From Middle English lithen, from Old Norse hlýða (“to listen”), from Proto-Germanic *hliuþijaną (“to listen”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlew- (“to hear”).
Cognate with Danish lytte (“to listen”). Related to Old English hlēoþor (“noise, sound, voice, song, hearing”), Old English hlūd (“loud, noisy, sounding, sonorous”). More at loud.
词源 4
Uncertain; perhaps an alteration of lewth.
词源 5
From Middle English lithen (“to make gentle or mild; to relax, soothe”), from Old English līþan (“to assuage, mitigate, soften”), from līþe (“lithe, gentle”).
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