The Merriam Webster Unabridged Dictionary is the only source that I found that points further back than Latin in its etymology.
在我所能找到的资料里,只有《未删节版韦氏词典》能指出该单词在拉丁语之前的词源。
A dictionary may have several different meanings to a word; it may have sample sentences or citations in which the word was used; it may have an etymology.
词典中可能对一个词会有几种不同的解释,它可能会有一些例句和在一些文中该词被运用的引用,还可能会涉及词源部分。
The Oxford English Dictionary refers to two guys - Pliny and nicander-in its etymology for the word magnet.
磁铁这个词,牛津英语词典上标明说pliny和nicander这两个词是它的词源。
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