lagoon 的意思
潟湖;浅水区;湖泊
lagoon 的词源
lagoon(n.)
1670年代,lagune,早期形式为laguna(1610年代),意指“靠近海洋但被沙丘隔开的浅滩或咸水湖区”。这个词源于法语lagune,或直接来自意大利语laguna,意思是“池塘、湖泊”,而其更早的拉丁语根源是lacuna,意为“池塘、洞”,来自lacus,即“池塘”(参见lake (n.1))。最初是用来指代威尼斯地区的。1769年(由库克船长首次使用),这个词被用来描述南海环礁中类似湖泊的水域。另见-oon。相关词汇:Lagoonal。
In regions where Spanish is or formerly was the current language, the word lagoon is likely to be used with more latitude of meaning, since in the Spanish laguna is applied to ordinary lakes, to the bottoms of deep bays, especially when these are more or less closed in by a narrowing of the coast-lines, so as to give rise to lake-like areas, and also to shallow, swampy, or almost dried-up lakes inland as well as near the coast. [Century Dictionary]
在西班牙语仍然流行或曾经流行的地区,lagoon一词的含义可能更加宽泛,因为在西班牙语中,laguna不仅指普通湖泊,还可以指深湾的底部,尤其是那些因海岸线收窄而形成湖泊状区域的水域,以及内陆和沿海的浅水、沼泽或几乎干涸的湖泊。[世纪词典]
相关词汇
lagoon 的使用趋势
改编自 books.google.com/ngrams/. Ngrams 数据仅供参考。
分享 "lagoon"
中文翻译由AI生成。查看原文,请访问: Etymology, origin and meaning of lagoon