词族 · centaury
词形变化
英语词源
- centaury (n.)
- small plant with red flowers (now usually erythraea Centaureum), late 14c., from Medieval Latin centaurea, from Latin centaureum, from Greek kentaureion, from kentauros "centaur" (see centaur), so called according to Pliny because the plant's medicinal properties were discovered by Chiron the centaur.
German Tausendgüldenkraut is based on a mistranslation of the Latin word, as if from centum + aurum (the similarity might be the result of Roman folk etymology).
权威例句
- 1. Centaury eases cough, bronchitis, inflammation of liver and eye.
- 咳嗽 、 支气管炎 、 肝脏及眼睛发炎有抑制功效.