dowry: [14] English acquired dowry via Anglo- Norman dowarie from Old French douaire (source of the originally synonymous but now little-used dower [14]). This in turn came from medieval Latin dōtārium, a derivative of Latin dōs ‘dowry’, which was related to dāre ‘give’ (source of English date, donate, etc). Its associated verb, dōtāre ‘endow’, is the ancestor of English endow. => date, donate, endow
dowry (n.)
early 14c., from Anglo-French dowarie, Old French doaire (late 13c.) "dower, dowry, gift," from Medieval Latin dotarium, from Latin dotare "to endow, portion," from dos (genitive dotis) "marriage portion," from PIE *do-ti (cognates: Sanskrit dadati, Greek didonai, Old Church Slavonic dati, Lithuanian duoti, Armenian tam, all meaning "to give"), from root *do- "to give" (see date (n.1)).
雙語例句
1. His family hoped that his bride would bring a large dowry.
他的家人希望新娘能帶來豐厚的嫁妝.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
2. If a young woman did not have a dowry, she went into domestic service.
如果一個年輕女子沒有嫁妝，她就要做家政服務賺錢。
來自柯林斯例句
3. The money from her dowry was invested in her mother's store.
她的嫁妝錢都投到了母親的鋪子裏。
來自辭典例句
4. Although ours has been so pure and poor That you can take them no great dowry.
貧儉誠所尚,資從豈待周!
來自英漢 - 翻譯樣例 - 文學
5. As a wife , the woman was protected by the setting up of a dowry or decimum.