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Ornament Latin English French 7875.Ornament 英 ɔːnəm(ə)Nt]美 ɔrnəmənt

正面 7875.ornament
英 ['ɔːnəm(ə)nt]美 ['ɔrnəmənt]

背面
释义:
n. 装饰;[建][服装] 装饰物;教堂用品vt. 装饰,修饰
例句:
1. The clock is simply for ornament; it doesn't work any more.这架时钟纯属摆设,它再也不走了。

1. 或者名字可以用来修饰这个房子.
ornament 装饰品来自拉丁语ornare,装饰,来自ordnare,安排,布置,词源同order,adorn.-ment,名词后缀。引申词义装饰品。
ornamentornament: [14] Ornament comes from Latin ōrnāmentum, a derivative of the verb ōrnāre ‘equip, get ready’, hence ‘decorate’. This also forms the basis of English adorn [14] and suborn [16] (etymologically ‘equip secretly’).=> adorn, subornornament (n.)early 13c., "an accessory," from Old French ornement "ornament, decoration," and directly from Latin ornamentum "apparatus, equipment, trappings; embellishment, decoration, trinket," from ornare "equip, adorn" (see ornate). Meaning "decoration, embellishment" in English is attested from late 14c. (also a secondary sense in classical Latin). Figurative use from 1550s.ornament (v.)1720, from ornament (n.). Middle English used ournen (late 14c.) in this sense, from Old French orner, from Latin ornare. Related: Ornamented; ornamenting."

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