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单词 delphin
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delphinn.adj.

/ˈdɛlfɪn/
Forms: Middle English delfyn, Middle English delfyne, Middle English–1500s delphyn, 1500s–1600s delphine, 1500s– delphin.
Etymology: < Latin delphīn, delphīnus, < Greek δελϕίν : compare also Italian delfino , Spanish delfin , Portuguese delfim , Provençal dalfin , dalphin , Old French dalphin , daulphin , modern French dauphin , whence dolphin n., dauphin n.
A. n.
1.
a. = dolphin n. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > suborder Odontoceti > [noun] > family Delphinidae > delphinus delphis (dolphin)
mereswineeOE
delphinc1300
dolphin13..
dolphin-fish1513
dolphinet1595
Delphinusa1672
c1300 K. Alis. 6576 A water..Tiger..Heo noriceth delfyns, and cokadrill.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 41 Thar buth oft ytake delphyns, & se-calues.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 54 Brunswyne or delfyne..delphinus.
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. viii. f. 131 Of a maruelous sence or memorie as are the elephant and the delphyn.
1633 P. Fletcher Piscatorie Eclogs vii. xiii. 47 in Purple Island The lively Delphins dance, and brisly Seales give eare.
b. A drinking vessel of the shape of a dolphin. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > other specific shapes
gripe's egg1391
gripe-shell15..
Priapus1613
man with the beard1631
delphin1638
belly-cup1673
spout cup1702
leaf cup1716
image mug1788
rhyton1820
toby1841
Sussex pig1846
bell-cupa1849
biberon1853
moustache cup1863
trembleuse cup1869
steeple-cup1909
thistle cup1947
1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 162 Some artificiall drinking vessels made after the manner of a dolphin, were called delphines.
2. Chemistry. Short for delphinin (see -in suffix1): A neutral fat found in the oil of several species of dolphin; called also dolphin-fat and phocenin.
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1864 H. Watts Dict. Chem. II. 309 Delphin is an oil very mobile at 17° C.
B. adj.
[attributive use of Latin delphīnī in phrase ad usum Delphini ‘for the use of the Dauphin’.] Of or pertaining to the Dauphin of France, and to the edition of Latin classics, prepared ‘for the use of the dauphin’, son of Louis XIV.
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society > communication > book > edition > [adjective] > specific edition
Aldine1654
dauphin1705
delphin1775
princeps1809
1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 330. ⁋4 All the Boys in the School, but I, have the Classick Authors in usum Delphini, gilt and letter'd on the Back.]
1775 E. Harwood Classics (1778) 222 Delphin Classics, quarto.
1802 T. F. Dibdin Introd. Knowl. Rare Ed. Classics 10 (note) One of the rarest of the Delphin editions.
1818 Advt. in Valpy's Grk. Gram. (ed. 6) 215 The best text will be used, and not the Delphin.
1877 Globe Encycl. II. 361 Valpy's Variorum Latin Classics..contain the Delphin notes and Interpretatio.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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