eyrie
英 ['??r?; 'a?r?; 'e?r?]
- n. （鷹等的）巢；高山住屋（或城堡）
暢通詞匯
詞態變化
復數:?eyries;
中文詞源
eyrie 鷹巢
來自aerie的拼寫變體。
英文詞源
- eyrie
- eyrie: [16] Latin ager (source of English agriculture and related to English acre) meant ‘field’, or more broadly ‘piece of land’. In postclassical times this extended via ‘native land’ to ‘lair of a wild animal, particularly a bird of prey’, the meaning of its Old French descendant aire. The Old French form was taken back into medieval Latin as aeria, the immediate source of the English word.
=> acre, agriculture - eyrie
- see aerie.