convent
英 ['k?nv(?)nt]
美 ['kɑnv?nt]
助記提示
1. from Latin conventus "assembly," used in Medieval Latin for "religious house, religious community". Not exclusively feminine until 18c.
中文詞源
convent 女修道院con-, 強調。-ven, 走。走到一起修道的地方，在18世紀以前并沒有性別限制。
英文詞源
- convent
- convent: [13] Latin conventus meant ‘assembly’ (it was the past participle of convenire ‘come together’, source of English convenient), but as it passed via Anglo-Norman covent into English it acquired the specialized sense ‘religious community’ (in early use it was applied to communities of either sex, but since the end of the 18th century it has come to be used exclusively for a ‘house of nuns’).
Until the mid- 15th century the Anglo-Norman spelling covent was retained in English (it survives in Covent Garden, which was formerly a vegetable garden belonging to the monks of Westminster Abbey, and may also the the source of coven [16]).
=> convenient, coven, venue - convent (n.)
- c. 1200, covent, cuvent, from Anglo-French covent, from Old French convent, from Latin conventus "assembly," used in Medieval Latin for "religious house," originally past participle of convenire "come together" (see convene). Not exclusively feminine until 18c. The form with restored Latin -n- emerged early 15c. The Middle English form remains in London's Covent Garden district (notorious late 18c. for brothels), so called because it had been the garden of a defunct monastery.
COVENT GARDEN ABBESS. A bawd.
COVENT GARDEN AGUE. The venereal di?ea?e.
["Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue," 1796]
雙語例句
- 1. I've tried to pass off my accent as a convent school accent.
- 我努力將口音裝成女修會學校的口音。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. She attended a convent school and went to Mass each day.
- 她上的是教會學校，每天都去做彌撒。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. She entered a convent at the age of 16.
- 她十六歲時進了修道院.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 4. Living in the convent narrowed her views.
- 修道院生活使她的視野變窄.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 5. She died in misery in a convent.
- 她悲慘地在修道院死去.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》