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单词 marmottane
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marmottanen.

Forms: 1600s marmotaine, 1600s marmotane, 1600s marmottane.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French marmotanne.
Etymology: < Middle French marmotanne (1562 in Du Pinet's translation of Pliny: compare quots. below; French marmontaine (1581 in Middle French), also marmotaine (Cotgrave 1611, and spelt thus in 1634 ed. of Holland's Pliny)), probably < marmotte marmot n. with second element re-formed after montaine mountain n. Compare post-classical Latin mormontanis (dative plural, 14th cent. in a French source), and note on post-classical Latin mus montanus s.v. marmot n.
Obsolete. rare.
= marmot n. 1a.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > [noun] > family Sciuridae (squirrel) > genus Marmota > marmota marmota (marmot)
mouse of the mountain?1583
mountain-mouse1599
marmottane1601
Alpine mouse1607
marmot1607
mountain rat1659
Alpine marmot1771
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. viii. xxxvii. 216 The Rats..of the Alpes likewise, i. Marmottanes, which are as bigge as Brockes or Badgers.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. viii. xxxvii. 217 Such like Marmotanes there be in Ægypt.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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