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French Current Present Participle Latin Corant Literally Currere

正面 5698.current
英 ['kʌr(ə)nt]美 ['kɝənt]

背面
释义:
adj. 现在的;流通的,通用的;最近的;草写的n. (水,气,电)流;趋势;涌流n. (Current)人名;(英)柯伦特
例句:
1. The tidal stream or current gradually decreases in the shallows.浅滩上的潮水逐渐退去。

1. eternal fire 长明灯(坟前的灯).
current 当前的,流通的来自PIE*kers, 跑,词源同car,course.
currentcurrent: [13] Current literally means ‘running’. It comes from Old French corant, the present participle of courre ‘run’, which in turn was descended from Latin currere ‘run’. This has been traced back to a prehistoric root denoting ‘swift movement’, which probably also produced car, career, carry, and charge. The Latin verb itself has a wide range of descendants in English, from the obvious courier [16] to the more heavily disguised corridor [16] (originally literally ‘a run’), occur and succour.For the English offspring of its past participle cursus see COURSE. The sense ‘of the present time’ (first recorded in the 17th century) comes from the notion of ‘running in time’ or ‘being in progress’.=> car, carry, charge, corridor, courier, course, occur, succourcurrent (adj.)c. 1300, "running, flowing," from Old French corant "running, lively, eager, swift," present participle of corre "to run," from Latin currere "to run, move quickly" (of persons or things), from PIE *kers- "to run" (cognates: Greek -khouros "running," Lithuanian karsiu "go quickly," Old Norse horskr "swift," Old Irish and Middle Welsh carr "cart, wagon," Breton karr "chariot," Welsh carrog "torrent"). Meaning "prevalent, generally accepted" is from 1560s.current (n.)late 14c., from Middle French corant (Modern French courant), from Old French corant (see current (adj.)). Applied 1747 to the flow of electrical force."

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