mite

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /maɪt/    美 /maɪt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of many minute arachnids which, along with the ticks, comprise subclass Acari (syn. Acarina).
  2. A small coin formerly circulated in England, rated at about a third of a farthing.
    — One mite wrung from the lab'rer's hands Shall buy and sell the miser's lands;
  3. A lepton, a small coin used in Judea in the time of Christ.
  4. A small weight; one twentieth of a grain.
  5. Anything very small; a minute object; a very little quantity or particle. adverbial,sometimes
    — a mite
  6. A small or naughty person, or one people take pity on; rascal. colloquial,often
    — Today's children at Christmas-time take a cast-off toy to the Toy Service held in many churches, and it is a pretty sight to watch those tiny mites clutching their toys and parting from them.j
动词 v.
  1. Eye dialect spelling of might. alt-of,pronunciation-spelling

词形变化

mites plural

词汇关系

衍生词
air-sac mite a mite bee mite beetle mite bird mite blackberry mite book mite broad mite carpet mite cat fur mite cheese mite chicken mite clover mite common house mite concrete mite dog fur mite dust mite ear mite eyelash mite feather mite flour mite follicle mite fruit mite furniture mite gall mite harvest mite house dust mite house mouse mite itch mite midshipmite mightsome mite box mite cheese miteproof mitey miticide miting mity moss mite oral mite anaphylaxis peacock mite prune mite quill mite rabbit ear mite rabbit fur mite red mite red velvet mite rice sheath mite rust mite spider mite spiny rat mite stock mite storage mite sugar mite trombiculid mite tropical rat mite water mite wheat mite widow's mite Willamette mite Willamette spider mite wing mite wood mite

词源

词源 1
From Middle English mite, from Old English mīte (“mite, tiny insect”), from Proto-West Germanic *mītā, from Proto-Germanic *mītǭ (“biting insect”, literally “cutter”), from *maitaną (“to cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“small”) or *meh₂y- (“to cut”). Akin to Old High German mīza (“mite”), Middle Dutch mīte (“moth, mite”), Dutch mijt (“moth, mite”), Danish mide (“mite”).
词源 2
From Middle English mite, from Old English mīte (“mite, tiny insect”), from Proto-West Germanic *mītā, from Proto-Germanic *mītǭ (“biting insect”, literally “cutter”), from *maitaną (“to cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“small”) or *meh₂y- (“to cut”). Akin to Old High German mīza (“mite”), Middle Dutch mīte (“moth, mite”), Dutch mijt (“moth, mite”), Danish mide (“mite”).
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