flamingo的词源
英文词源
- flamingo
- flamingo: [16] Flamingos get their name from their reddish-pink plumage, which earned them the epithet ‘fire-bird’. This was expressed in Provençal (the language of southern French coastal areas, where flamingos abound) as flamenc, a compound formed from flama ‘flame’ (a descendant of Latin flamma) and the Germanic suffix -ing ‘belonging to’. English acquired the word via Portuguese flamengo. (It has, incidentally, no etymological connection with flamenco ‘Spanish dance’ [19], which comes from the Spanish word for ‘Flemish’: the people of Flanders seem to have had a reputation in the Middle Ages for bright, flamboyant dress, and hence ‘Flemish’ in Spanish became synonymous with ‘gipsy-like’.)
=> flame - flamingo (n.)
- long-legged, long-necked brightly colored pink bird of the tropical Americas, 1560s, from Portuguese flamengo, Spanish flamengo, literally "flame-colored" (compare Greek phoinikopteros "flamingo," literally "red-feathered"), from Provençal flamenc, from flama "flame" (see flame (n.)) + Germanic suffix -enc "-ing, belonging to." Perhaps accommodated to words for Fleming (see flamenco).
中文词源
flamingo：弗拉门科舞（一种节奏明快的西班牙舞蹈）
来自西班牙语。一种观点认为来自Fleming, 民族名，民族舞蹈。或来自flame, 燃烧，炫丽，形容这种舞蹈的欢快。
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：flamingo 词源，flamingo 含义。
来自flame, 燃烧，炫丽。因这种鸟火红的翅膀而得名。
这是羽衣粉红或深红的一种热带大涉禽，汉语作“火烈鸟”或“红鹳”。据传，新大陆的西班牙探险者初次见到这种鸟时想拿佛兰芒人( Fleming)开玩笑，便给它取名Flamenco，在西班牙语意思就是“佛兰芒人”，因为佛兰芒人肤色微红，还素以性格活跃，衣着艳丽著称。该词转由葡萄牙语(flamengo)进入英语后，演变为flamingo这一形式。人们从民俗语源的角度往往将flamingo和西班牙语flama‘flame’（火焰）相联系。若将flamingo的词尾-o去掉，便是flaming。flam-ing在英语有“火红的”、“火焰似的”之义，这不正合该种鸟的羽色和佛兰芒人的肤色。
flamingo：[动]火烈鸟(形体似鹤，有粉红色，深红色和黑色羽毛)
词根词缀： -flam-燃烧,火焰 + ingo
