millipede的词源

英文词源

millipede (n.)

also millepede, c. 1600, from Latin millepeda "wood louse," a type of crawling insect, from mille "thousand" (see million) + pes (genitive pedis) "foot," from PIE root *ped- (1) "a foot" (see foot (n.)). Probably a loan-translation of Greek chiliopous.

中文词源

millipede：千足虫

milli-,千，-ped,脚，词源同foot.比较centipede.

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