eyrie

英 ['ɪərɪ; 'aɪrɪ; 'eərɪ]
  • n. (鹰等的)巢;高山住屋(或城堡)

畅通词汇

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.