oryx的词源

英文词源

oryx (n.)

late 14c., from Latin oryx, from Greek oryx (genitive orygos) "North African antelope with pointed horns, the digging animal," literally "pick-axe." Used in Greek and Latin bibles to render Hebrew tho, which early English Bibles misidentified as everything from a small hibernating animal to a wild bull.

中文词源

oryx：大羚羊

来自希腊语oryx,北非大羚羊，原义为镐，锄，因这种羊的角形如镐而得名。

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