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单词 philanthropos
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philanthroposn.

Forms: Old English fhylantropos, Old English phylantropos, Old English–Middle English philantropos, 1500s–1700s philanthropos.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin philanthrōpos.
Etymology: < classical Latin philanthrōpos (Pliny) < Hellenistic Greek ϕιλάνθρωπος goosegrass, cleavers (from its sticking to people), use as noun of ϕιλάνθρωπος , adjective (see philanthrope n.).As it is identical in form to the Latin word, examples of the English word cannot always be distinguished from references to the Latin word in an English context.
Botany. Obsolete.
Either of two plants with seeds or other parts that cling to clothing, goosegrass (cleavers), Galium aparine, and agrimony, Agrimonia eupatoria.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > [noun] > goose-grass or cleavers
cleaversc1000
hairifc1000
tongue-bleedc1450
goose-grass1530
goose-hairif1551
goose-share1578
clithers1597
goose-bill1597
philanthropos1597
love-man1598
rundles1601
rennet wort1688
catchweed1691
goose-tongue1738
sticking-grass1829
scratch-weed1855
turkey-grass1874
beggars'-lice1880
tongue-bleeder1905
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > agrimony or lady's mantle or burnet
agrimonyeOE
padelion?a1300
burnetc1400
sindaw1548
liverwort1566
great sanicle1578
lady's mantle1578
pimpernel1578
goose-chite1597
philanthropos1597
Poterium1597
lion's foot1611
salading-burnet1766
burnet blood-wort1776
dew-cup1799
sanguisorb1846
salad burnet1854
OE tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Hatton) (O.E.D. transcript) (1984) clxxiv. 218 Ðas wyrt þe man philantropos [OE Vitell. fhylantropos, OE Harl. 585 phylantropos, ?a1200 Harl. 6258B philantropos] nemneþ, þæt ys on ure geþeode menlufigende, for ðy heo wyle hrædlice to ðam men geclyfian.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. xciii. 984 And groweþ by olde walls and hatte philantropos, as it were ‘louynge mankynde’, for he cleueþ to mannes cloþes by a maner affeccioun and loue, as it semeþ.
1562 W. Bullein Bk. Simples f. liij, in Bulwarke of Defence You haue rightly described this herbe, whiche in deede beare all those names [sc. gosegrasse, hare wede, etc.], among the people; it is called Philanthropos, for it loueth to hang upon garmentes, and goe with men.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 575 Agrimonie is named..of some Philanthropos, of the cleauing qualitie of the seedes hanging to mens garments.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 273 It is ready to catch hold of folkes clothes as they passe by, and to stick unto them [margin.] Whereupon they cal it Philanthropos, i. a louer of man.
1728 R. Bradley Dict. Botanicum Philanthropos, i.e. apurin.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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