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单词 excalibur
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Excaliburn.

/ɛkˈskalɪbə/
Forms: Also Middle English escalibourc, excalaber, excalybur, 1600s escalibour, 1800s excalibar, excalibour.
Etymology: < Old French Escalibor (with many variant spellings), corrupt form of Caliburn n., in Geoffrey of Monmouth (c1140) Caliburnus. The Welsh form in the Mabinogion is Caledvwlch, which has a resemblance, that cannot well be accidental, to Caladbolg, the name of a famous sword in Irish legend. The Welsh and Irish forms do not correspond phonetically: the one or the other has probably undergone corruption. Prof. Rhys, taking the Irish form as the correct one, suggests the translation ‘hard-belly’, i.e. ‘voracious,’ and thinks the Welsh form may have come from Breton.
The name of King Arthur's sword.
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Caliburn1297
Morglayc1330
Excalibura1450
c1300 Merlin (Huth MS.) 101 c Saicies..que l'espee est apielee par son droit non Escalibor.]
a1450 Le Morte Arth. 3448 Excalaber, my swerd good.
1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur v. viii Kyng Arthur..smote hym ageyne with Excalibur that it clefte his hede.
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin vii. 118 The right name [of the sword] was cleped Escaliboure, whiche is a name in ebrewe, that is to sey in englissh, kyttynge, Iren, tymber, and steill.
1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor ii. iii. sig. E4 You talke of Morglay, Excaliber, Durindana. View more context for this quotation
1825 W. Scott Talisman xiv, in Tales Crusaders IV. 307 No sword on earth, were it the Excalibar of King Arthur, can cut that which opposes no steady resistance.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Morte d'Arthur in Poems (new ed.) II. 8 King Arthur's sword, Excalibur, Wrought by the lonely maiden of the Lake.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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