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Idiom Peculiar Latin Idioma Greek Oneself One's 13092.Idiom

正面 13092.idiom
英 ['ɪdɪəm]美 ['ɪdɪəm]

背面
释义:
n. 成语,习语;土话
例句:
1. It was an old building in the local idiom.这是一座具有当地特色的古建筑.

1. 他(-t)是个白痴 => idiot. 妈妈(-m)教我学习成语、习语、方言 => idiom.2. idiot, idiom => 白痴他(-t, idiot)记不住习语.
idiom 习语,习惯来自希腊语idios,个人的,自己的,来自PIE*swe,个人,自己,词源同self,swain,custom.引申词义个人的生活习惯,个人的说话方式,后抽象化为习语,习惯。
idiom (n.)1580s, "form of speech peculiar to a people or place," from Middle French idiome (16c.) and directly from Late Latin idioma "a peculiarity in language," from Greek idioma "peculiarity, peculiar phraseology," from idioumai "to appropriate to oneself," from idios "personal, private," properly "particular to oneself," from PIE *swed-yo-, suffixed form of root *s(w)e-, pronoun of the third person and reflexive (referring back to the subject of a sentence), also used in forms denoting the speaker's social group, "(we our-)selves" (cognates: Sanskrit svah, Avestan hva-, Old Persian huva "one's own," khva-data "lord," literally "created from oneself;" Greek hos "he, she, it;" Latin suescere "to accustom, get accustomed," sodalis "companion;" Old Church Slavonic svoji "his, her, its," svojaku "relative, kinsman;" Gothic swes "one's own;" Old Norse sik "oneself;" German Sein; Old Irish fein "self, himself"). Meaning "phrase or expression peculiar to a language" is from 1620s."

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