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Latin English Separate Medieval Legal Attested 311.Several 英

正面 311.several
英 ['sev(ə)r(ə)l]美 ['sɛvrəl]

背面
释义:
adj. 几个的;各自的pron. 几个;数个
例句:
1. Several proposals are under consideration by the state assembly.有几个提案州议会正在讨论中。

1. 谐音:五个“废物”。
several 切开的,一些,几个sever,切开,-al,形容词后缀。即切开的,引申词义切成几份的,一些的,几个的。
severalseveral: [15] Etymologically, several means ‘separate’. It comes via Anglo-Norman several from medieval Latin sēparālis, a derivative of Latin sēpar ‘separate’. This in turn was formed from sēparāre ‘separate’ (source of English separate), whose Vulgar Latin descendant *sēperāre passed into English via Anglo- Norman severer as sever [14]. Several’s original sense ‘separate, individual’ survives in legal terminology, but it has been superseded in the general language by ‘many’, which emerged in the 16th and 17th centuries via ‘different, various’.=> prepare, separate, severseveral (adj.)early 15c., "existing apart," from Anglo-French several, from Middle French seperalis "separate," from Medieval Latin separalis, from Latin separ "separate, different," back-formation from separare "to separate" (see separate (v.)). Meaning "various, diverse, different" is attested from c. 1500; that of "more than one" is from 1530s, originally in legal use. Here we are all, by day; by night we're hurled By dreams, each one into a several world [Herrick, 1648] Related: Severalty. Jocular ordinal form severalth attested from 1902 in American English dialect (see -th (2))."

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