troth英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

An oath, pledge, plight, or promise. archaic,countable

— By my troth I care not, a man can die but once, we owe God a death, [...]
An oath, pledge, plight, or promise.; A pledge or promise to marry someone. archaic,countable

— ...I envy not the beast that takes His license in the field of time, Unfetter'd by the sense of crime, To whom a conscience never wakes; Nor, what may count itself as blest, The heart that never plighted troth But stagnates in the weeds of sloth;...
An oath, pledge, plight, or promise.; The state of being thus pledged; betrothal, engagement. archaic,countable

— I did, therefore, what an honest man should; restored the maiden her troth, and departed the country, in the service of my king.
Truth; something true. archaic,countable,uncountable

— [John] Martiall, much like to Virgil's Sinon, (of whom he took a precedent, to make an artificial lie,) for three leaves together, in his preface, telleth undoubted trothes; to the end that the falsehoods, which, foolishly, (God wot,) he doth infer, may have the more credit.

动词 v.

To pledge to marry somebody. obsolete

词形变化

troths plural troths present,singular,third-person trothing participle,present trothed participle,past trothed past

词汇关系

衍生词

betroth betrothal tell-troth trothless trothplight trothplighted

词源

词源 1

From Middle English troth, trothe, trouthe, trowthe, a variant of treuth, treuthe, treouthe (“allegiance, fidelity, faithfulness, loyalty; oath, pledge, promise; betrothal or marriage vow; betrothal; honour, integrity; holiness, righteousness; confidence, trust; creed, faith; fact, reality, truth”), from Old English trēowþ, trīewþ (“truth, veracity; faith, fidelity; covenant, pledge”), from Proto-Germanic *triwwiþō (“contract; promise”), equivalent to true + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Doublet of truth.

词源 2

From Middle English troth, trothe, trouthe, trowthe, a variant of treuth, treuthe, treouthe (“allegiance, fidelity, faithfulness, loyalty; oath, pledge, promise; betrothal or marriage vow; betrothal; honour, integrity; holiness, righteousness; confidence, trust; creed, faith; fact, reality, truth”), from Old English trēowþ, trīewþ (“truth, veracity; faith, fidelity; covenant, pledge”), from Proto-Germanic *triwwiþō (“contract; promise”), equivalent to true + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Doublet of truth.