phlegmatic英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

One who has a phlegmatic disposition.

形容词 adj.

Not easily excited to action or passion; calm; sluggish.

— Calm and phlegmatic, with a clear eye, Mr. Fogg seemed a perfect type of that English composure which Angelica Kauffmann has so skilfully represented on canvas.
Generating, causing, or full of phlegm.

— cold and phlegmatic bodies

词形变化

more phlegmatic comparative most phlegmatic superlative phlegmatick alternative phlegmaticke alternative phlegmatique alternative phlegmatics plural phlegmatick alternative phlegmaticke alternative phlegmatique alternative

词汇关系

衍生词

apophlegmatic leucophlegmatic sanguineophlegmatic unphlegmatic

词源

词源 1

From Middle English fleumatik, flewmatik, flematik, fleumatyke, flewmatyk, from Old French fleumatique, from Latin phlegmaticus, from Ancient Greek φλεγματικός (phlegmatikós), from φλέγμα (phlégma), referring to the humour which ancient Hippocratic and later Galenic medicine associated with mildness, coldness, sluggishness, and indifference. Spelling later altered to resemble the word's Latin and Greek roots, with modern pronunciation following this new spelling.

词源 2

From Middle English fleumatik, flewmatik, flematik, fleumatyke, flewmatyk, from Old French fleumatique, from Latin phlegmaticus, from Ancient Greek φλεγματικός (phlegmatikós), from φλέγμα (phlégma), referring to the humour which ancient Hippocratic and later Galenic medicine associated with mildness, coldness, sluggishness, and indifference. Spelling later altered to resemble the word's Latin and Greek roots, with modern pronunciation following this new spelling.