pyramid: [16] Egypt seems a likely ultimate source for pyramid, but its earliest known ancestor is Greek puramís, which passed into English via Latin pyramis. Pediment ‘triangular gable’ [17] probably originated as a garbling of pyramid, later influenced by ped-, the stem of Latin pēs ‘foot’. => pediment
pyramid (n.)
1550s (earlier in Latin form piramis, late 14c.), from French pyramide (Old French piramide "obelisk, stela," 12c.), from Latin pyramides, plural of pyramis "one of the pyramids of Egypt," from Greek pyramis (plural pyramides) "a pyramid," apparently an alteration of Egyptian pimar "pyramid." Financial sense is from 1911. Related: Pyramidal.
雙語例句
1. There rose before us the great pyramid of Gaza.
雄偉的加沙金字塔矗立在我們麵前。
來自柯林斯例句
2. a pyramid of cans in a shop window
商店櫥窗中擺成金字塔形的罐頭
來自《權威詞典》
3. Traditionally, the Brahmins, or the priestly class, are set at the top of the social pyramid.
傳統上，婆羅門，或稱僧侶階級，處於社會金字塔的頂端。
來自柯林斯例句
4. On a plate in front of him was piled a pyramid of flat white biscuits.
在他麵前的盤子上有一摞擺成金字塔形狀的白色薄餅。
來自柯林斯例句
5. A twenty-foot steel pyramid is to be hoisted into position on top of the tower.