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True English German Sense Recorded Adj Agree Oe

正面 493.true
英 [truː]美 [tru]

背面
释义:
adj. 真实的;正确的adv. 真实地;准确地n. 真实;准确vt. 装准n. (TRUE)人名;(英)特鲁
例句:
1. As a player he was unselfish, a true team man.作为一名选手,他毫无私念,真正把自己摆在团队中。

1、ac- ( ad- "to" ) + cord- + -ing.2、literally "be of one heart, bring heart to heart".3、=> make agree, reconcile, agree, be in harmony.
true 真的,真实的来自古英语 triewe,忠诚的,真诚的,来自 Proto-Germanic*treuwaz,信仰,忠诚,来自 PIE*deru, 稳定的,稳固的,词源同 tree,endure.后引申词义依据事实的,真的,真实的等。
truetrue: [OE] The underlying etymological meaning of true is ‘faithful, steadfast, firm’; ‘in accordance with the facts’ is a secondary development. It goes back to the prehistoric Germanic base *treww-, which also produced German treue and Dutch trouw ‘faithful’ and the English noun truce, and it has been speculated that it may ultimately have links with the Indo- European base *dru- ‘wood, tree’ (source of English tree), the semantic link being the firmness or steadfastness of oaks and suchlike trees. Truth [OE] comes from the same source, as do its derivative betroth [14], its now archaic variant troth [16], the equally dated trow [OE], and probably also trust and tryst.=> betroth, troth, trow, truce, trust, truth, trysttrue (adj.)Old English triewe (West Saxon), treowe (Mercian) "faithful, trustworthy, honest, steady in adhering to promises, friends, etc.," from Proto-Germanic *treuwaz- "having or characterized by good faith" (cognates: Old Frisian triuwi, Dutch getrouw, Old High German gatriuwu, German treu, Old Norse tryggr, Danish tryg, Gothic triggws "faithful, trusty"), from PIE *drew-o-, a suffixed form of the root *deru-/*dreu- "be firm, solid, steadfast" (cognates: Lithuanian drutas "firm," Welsh drud, Old Irish dron "strong," Welsh derw "true," Old Irish derb "sure"), with specialized sense "wood, tree" and derivatives referring to objects made of wood (see tree (n.)). Sense of "consistent with fact" first recorded c. 1200; that of "real, genuine, not counterfeit" is from late 14c.; that of "conformable to a certain standard" (as true north) is from c. 1550. Of artifacts, "accurately fitted or shaped" it is recorded from late 15c. True-love (n.) is Old English treowlufu. True-born (adj.) first attested 1590s. True-false (adj.) as a type of test question is recorded from 1923. To come true (of dreams, etc.) is from 1819.true (v.)"make true in position, form, or adjustment," 1841, from true (adj.) in the sense "agreeing with a certain standard." Related: Trued; truing."

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