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Assault Latin Vulgar French Seek Sc Originally Verb

正面 7225.assault
英 [ə'sɔːlt; ə'sɒlt]美 [ə'sɔlt]

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释义:
n. 攻击;袭击vt. 攻击;袭击vi. 袭击;动武
例句:
1. At the police station, I was charged with assault.在警察局,我被指控殴打他人。

1. 谐音“搜靠它”。2. ear => auris "ear" => aus- => auscultate.3. auscultate => ascolt- => escout- => scout.4. Etymologically, a scout is someone who 'listens'.5. seek => sc- + out => scout.6. seek out => scout.7. sc- (拼音“搜查”) + out => scout.
assault 侵犯前缀as-同ad-. -sault, 来自词根sal, 跳,见salmon,鲑鱼,跳鱼。-t, 构成反复格。
assaultassault: [13] To assault somebody was originally to ‘jump on’ them. The word comes from a Vulgar Latin compound verb *assaltāre, formed from the prefix ad- ‘to’ and saltāre ‘jump’, a frequentative form (denoting repeated action) of the verb salīre ‘jump’ (which is the source of English salient, and by a similar compounding process produced assail [13]). In Old French this became asauter, and English originally borrowed it as asaute, but in the 16th century the l was reintroduced.=> assail, somersaultassault (n.)late 14c., earlier asaut (c. 1200), from Old French asaut, assaut "an attack, an assault, attacking forces" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *adsaltus "attack, assault," from ad "to" (see ad-) + Latin saltus "a leap," from salire "to leap, spring" (see assail). In law by 1580s; historically, assault includes menacing words or actions; battery is an actual blow.assault (v.)early 15c., from Middle French asauter, assauter, from Vulgar Latin *assaltare (see assault (n.)). Related: Assaulted; assaulting."

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