eyrie
英['ɪərɪ;'aɪrɪ;'eərɪ]
- n. （鹰等的）巢；高山住屋（或城堡）
词态变化
复数: eyries;
中文词源
eyrie 鹰巢
来自aerie的拼写变体。
英文词源
- eyrie
- eyrie: [16] Latin ager (source of English agriculture and related to English acre) meant ‘field’, or more broadly ‘piece of land’. In postclassical times this extended via ‘native land’ to ‘lair of a wild animal, particularly a bird of prey’, the meaning of its Old French descendant aire. The Old French form was taken back into medieval Latin as aeria, the immediate source of the English word.
=> acre, agriculture - eyrie
- see aerie.