nightingale: [OE] The nightingale’s name, appropriately enough, means literally ‘nightsinger’. It represents a 13th-century alteration of an earlier nihtgale, which goes back to a prehistoric Germanic compound formed from *nakht ‘night’ and *galan ‘sing’ (a relative of English yell [OE] and possibly of gale). Related Germanic forms include German nachtigall, Dutch nachtegaal, Swedish n?ktergal, and Danish nattergal.
nightingale (n.)
Old English n?ctigal?, nihtegale, compound formed in Proto-Germanic (cognates: Dutch nachtegaal, German Nachtigall) from *nakht- "night" (see night) + *galon "to sing," related to Old English giellan "yell" (see yell (v.)). With parasitic -n- that appeared mid-13c. Dutch nightingale "frog" is attested from 1769. In Japanese, "nightingale floor" is said to be the term for boards that creak when you walk on them.
French rossignol (Old French lousseignol) is, with Spanish ruise?or, Portuguese rouxinol, Italian rosignuolo, from Vulgar Latin *rosciniola, dissimilated from Latin lusciniola "nightingale," diminutive of luscinia "nightingale."
雙語例句
1. I had promised Nightingale to attend the lecture.
我已答應南丁格爾參加演講.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
2. Let me introduce you to my friend Nightingale.
讓我把你介紹給我的朋友南丁格爾.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
3. Men don't buy the Florence Nightingale garbage they teach in nursing school.
男性不會接受護理學校傳授的弗洛倫斯·南丁格爾那陳舊的一套.
來自辭典例句
4. I fired that question right back at the nightingale.
我是直接向夜鶯提問的.
來自辭典例句
5. Even from the first, the words went wrong , the catbird pecked away the nightingale.