sickle

• n. 鐮刀

來自古英語 sicol,來自通俗拉丁語*sicila,來自拉丁語 secula,鐮刀，來自 secare,砍，切，來自 PIE*sek,砍，切，詞源同 segment,secateurs.

sickle

sickle: [OE] A sickle is etymologically a ‘cutting’ tool. Like its close relatives German sichel and Dutch zikkel, it originated in a prehistoric Germanic borrowing of Latin secula ‘sickle’. This was a derivative of the verb secāre ‘cut’ (source of English section, sector, etc), which in turn went back to the Indo-European base *sek- ‘cut’ (source also of English scythe).
=> scythe, section, segment

sickle (n.)

Old English sicol, probably a West Germanic borrowing (Middle Dutch sickele, Dutch sikkel, Old High German sihhila, German Sichel) from Vulgar Latin *sicila, from Latin secula "sickle" (source also of Italian segolo "hatchet"), from PIE root *sek- "to cut" (see section (n.)). Applied to curved or crescent-shaped things from mid-15c. Sickle-cell anemia is first recorded 1922.

1. Take the sickle which is lying on the grindstone.

把磨刀石上的那把鐮刀拿去.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

2. She bought herself a hoe and a sickle.

她給自己買了一把鋤頭和一把鐮刀.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

3. A bad shearer never had a good sickle.

拙匠無利器.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

4. Sickle-cell anaemia is passed on through a recessive gene.

鐮狀細胞貧血通過隱性基因遺傳給後代。

來自辭典例句

5. A sickle moon was in the sky.

彎彎的月亮正懸在空中.

來自辭典例句