womb

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. In female mammals, the organ in which the young are conceived and grow until birth; the uterus.
    — I danced myself right out the womb / Is it strange to dance so soon?
  2. The abdomen or stomach. obsolete
    — And his hede, hym semed,was enamyled with asure, and his shuldyrs shone as the golde, and his wombe was lyke mayles of a merveylous hew[…].
    And his head, it seemed to him, was enamelled with azure, and his shoulders shone like gold, and his womb was like mail of a marvelous hue […].
  3. The stomach of a person or creature. obsolete
  4. A place where something is made or formed. figuratively
    — The womb of earth the genial seed receives.
  5. Any cavity containing and enveloping anything.
    — The centre spike of gold Which burns deep in the blue-bell's womb.
动词 v.
  1. To enclose in a womb, or as if in a womb; to breed or hold in secret. obsolete,transitive
    — she grew round-wombed

词形变化

wombs plural wame alternative,dialectal wombs present,singular,third-person wombing participle,present wombed participle,past wombed past wame alternative,dialectal

词汇关系

衍生词
the womb to the tomb womb to tomb rent-a-womb wandering womb womb-brother womb-child womb envy wombless womblike wombly wombman wombmate womby

词源

词源 1
From Middle English wombe, wambe, from Old English womb, wamb (“belly, stomach; bowels; heart; womb; hollow”), from Proto-West Germanic *wambu, from Proto-Germanic *wambō (“belly, stomach, abdomen”). Cognate with Scots wam, wame (“womb”), Dutch wam (“dewlap of beef; belly of a fish”), German Wamme, Wampe (“paunch, belly”), Danish vom (“belly, paunch, rumen”), Swedish våmb (“belly, stomach, rumen”), Norwegian vom (“rumen”), Icelandic vömb (“belly, abdomen, stomach”), Old Welsh gumbelauc (“womb”), Breton gwamm (“woman, wife”), Sanskrit वपा (vapā́, “the skin or membrane lining the intestines or parts of the viscera, the caul or omentum”). Superseded nonnative Middle English mater, matere (“womb”), and matris, matrice (“womb”) borrowed from Latin māter (“womb”) and Old French matrice (“womb”), respectively.
词源 2
From Middle English wombe, wambe, from Old English womb, wamb (“belly, stomach; bowels; heart; womb; hollow”), from Proto-West Germanic *wambu, from Proto-Germanic *wambō (“belly, stomach, abdomen”). Cognate with Scots wam, wame (“womb”), Dutch wam (“dewlap of beef; belly of a fish”), German Wamme, Wampe (“paunch, belly”), Danish vom (“belly, paunch, rumen”), Swedish våmb (“belly, stomach, rumen”), Norwegian vom (“rumen”), Icelandic vömb (“belly, abdomen, stomach”), Old Welsh gumbelauc (“womb”), Breton gwamm (“woman, wife”), Sanskrit वपा (vapā́, “the skin or membrane lining the intestines or parts of the viscera, the caul or omentum”). Superseded nonnative Middle English mater, matere (“womb”), and matris, matrice (“womb”) borrowed from Latin māter (“womb”) and Old French matrice (“womb”), respectively.
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