oath

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈəʊθ/    美 /ˈoʊθ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A solemn pledge or promise that invokes a deity, a ruler, or another entity (not necessarily present) to attest the truth of a statement or sincerity of one's desire to fulfill a contract or promise.
    — take an oath
  2. A statement or promise which is strengthened (affirmed) by such a pledge.
    — After taking the oath of office, she became the country's forty-third premier.
  3. A light, irreverent or insulting appeal to a deity or other entity.
  4. A curse, a curse word.
    — The farther from the Senator's office, the darker and older the furniture, the freer fly four-letter oaths, the higher the heaps of unfiled and unattended papers culminating in a frenzy of pulp in the press section[…]
动词 v.
  1. To pledge. archaic

词形变化

oaths plural oaths present,singular,third-person oathing participle,present oathed participle,past oathed past

词汇关系

近义词
pledge vow avowal
衍生词
abjuration oath bodily oath book oath corporal oath counteroath Hippocratic oath ken oath minced oath my bloody oath oathable oathbound oathbreach oathbreaker oathbreaking oath-brother oathful oath-helper oath-helping oathless oathlet oathlike oathmaker oath of allegiance oath of calumny oath of office oath-ring oathtaker oathtaking oathworthy on oath ring-oath take oath under oath weapon oath
相关词
affirmation solemn affirmation bloody oath fucking oath statutory declaration

词源

词源 1
From Middle English ooth, oth, ath, from Old English āþ (“oath”), from Proto-West Germanic *aiþ (“oath”), from Proto-Germanic *aiþaz (“oath”).
Cognate with Scots aith, athe (“oath”), North Frisian ith, iss (“oath”), Saterland Frisian Eed (“oath”), West Frisian eed (“oath”), Dutch eed (“oath”), German Eid (“oath”), Swedish ed (“oath”), Icelandic eið (“oath”), Latin ūtor (“make use of, employ, avail”, verb), Old Irish óeth (“oath”).
词源 2
From Middle English ooth, oth, ath, from Old English āþ (“oath”), from Proto-West Germanic *aiþ (“oath”), from Proto-Germanic *aiþaz (“oath”).
Cognate with Scots aith, athe (“oath”), North Frisian ith, iss (“oath”), Saterland Frisian Eed (“oath”), West Frisian eed (“oath”), Dutch eed (“oath”), German Eid (“oath”), Swedish ed (“oath”), Icelandic eið (“oath”), Latin ūtor (“make use of, employ, avail”, verb), Old Irish óeth (“oath”).
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