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Fetus Latin Figuratively Sense 8057.Fetus 英 Fiːtəs]美 Fitəs

正面 8057.fetus
英 ['fiːtəs]美 ['fitəs]

背面
释义:
n. 胎儿,胎
例句:
1. Surely the fetus has a right to life?胎儿确实有生命权吗?

1. 三大儿:胎儿(fetus)、婴儿(infant)、孤儿(orphan)。
fetus 胎儿来自fe, 吮吸,吸奶,词源同female, filial. 用来指胎儿。
fetus (n.)late 14c., "the young while in the womb or egg" (tending to mean vaguely the embryo in the later stage of development), from Latin fetus (often, incorrectly, foetus) "the bearing or hatching of young, a bringing forth," from Latin base *fe- "to generate, bear," also "to suck, suckle" (see fecund). In Latin, fetus sometimes was transferred figuratively to the newborn creature itself, or used in a sense of "offspring, brood" (as in Horace's "Germania quos horrida parturit Fetus"), but this was not the basic meaning. It also was used of plants, in the sense of "fruit, produce, shoot," and figuratively as "growth, production." The spelling foetus is sometimes attempted as a learned Latinism, but it is not historic."

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