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Latin Famine Vulgar French Famish Famēs Derivative 8345.Famine

正面 8345.famine
英 ['fæmɪn]美 ['fæmɪn]

背面
释义:
n. 饥荒;饥饿,奇缺
例句:
1. The civil war is obstructing distribution of famine relief by aid agencies.内战阻碍着救援机构对饥荒赈济物资的配给。

1. 发米呢.2. 拼音法: 发(fa)米(mi)了(ne) 闹饥荒的时候,政府发米.
famine 饥饿,饥荒来自拉丁语fames,饥饿,饥荒。
faminefamine: [14] Both famine and famish [14] come ultimately from Latin famēs ‘hunger’. Its Vulgar Latin derivative *faminis produced Old French famine, source of English famine. Famish has come via a more circuitous route: another Vulgar Latin derivative of famēs was *affamāre, a compound verb formed with the prefix ad- ‘towards’; in Old French this became afamer, which was borrowed into Middle English, with loss of its first syllable, as fame ‘starve’; and before long this had the suffix -ish added to it, on the model of other verbs such as abolish and diminish.=> famishfamine (n.)mid-14c., from Old French famine "famine, starvation" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *famina, from Latin fames "hunger, starvation, famine," which is of unknown origin."

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