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Scar N Face Late French English Sense Norse

单词 scar
音标 [skɑ:]
解释 n. 伤痕,伤疤
红宝书 【英】 n. 伤痕,伤疤(a mark remaining on the skin from a wound
【例】 a face scarred by smallpox(痲子脸)
字源 scar (n.)
late 14c., from Old French escare "scab" (Modern French escarre), from Late Latin eschara, from Greek eskhara "scab formed after a burn," literally "hearth, fireplace," of unknown origin. English sense probably influenced by Middle English skar (late 14c.) "crack, cut, incision," from Old Norse skarð, related to score (n.). Figurative sense attested from 1580s.
scar (v.)
1550s, from scar (n.1). Figurative use from 1590s. Related: Scarred; scarring.
scar (n.2)
"bare and broken rocky face of a cliff or mountain," 1670s, earlier "rock, crag" (14c.), perhaps from Old Norse sker "isolated rock or low reef in the sea," from Proto-Germanic *sker- "to cut" (see shear (v.)).
不择手段背单词
趣味全助记 【记】音:痂,伤口血液凝结的痂皮,伤疤

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