单词 | book name |
释义 | > as lemmasbook name book name n. (a) (in imperial China) a name given to a child on starting school (now rare); (b) a name of a plant or animal (other than the Latin scientific name) not widely used except in books. [In sense (a) apparently partly (in quot. 1815) after a Cantonese equivalent of Chinese (Mandarin) shūming , which is not attested in this sense, which may reflect a regional use (usually ‘book title’ and ‘to write one's name’ < shū (noun) writing, book, (verb) to write (see chen shu n.) + míng name), and probably partly after the more usual (Mandarin) terms xuémíng, lit ‘study name’ or xùnmíng, lit. ‘instruction name’ (both 13th cent. or earlier); compare milk name n. at milk n.1 and adj. Compounds 3a.] ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > name or appellation > [noun] > other specific names or types of name the Holy Namec1440 Singh1623 specification1633 indigitamenta1657 explicative1669 ethnic1791 household name1804 class term1811 book name1815 biverb1831 class word1837 family name1840 class name1843 ananym1867 papponymic1875 autonym1879 throne name1880 demonymic1893 ethnonym1894 a name to conjure with1901 praise name1904 self-reference1948 exonym1957 specific1962 endonym1970 demonym1990 the mind > language > naming > name or appellation > [noun] > scientific or technical name > other spec. synonym1659 book name1878 organonym1889 homonym1892 neuronym1897 1815 R. Morrison Dict. Chinese Lang. I. 359 Shoo-ming, ‘Book name’, is the name given by the Master when a boy first enters at school. 1878 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names Aconite, a common book-name for Aconitum Napellus. 1885 Lisbon (Dakota Territory) Star 27 Mar. 5 A Chinaman..gets a book-name when he goes to school. 1908 A. E. Moule Young China ii. 16 Then, when the boys go to school..they have a book-name, selected by the master, and written on the class books and copy slips. 1955 G. Grigson Englishman's Flora 142 Grass Vetchling is a miserable book name, with no alternative except Shoes-and-Stockings. 2004 D. F. Austin Florida Ethnobot. 57/2 Abutilon permolle..velvety abutilon (Bahamas, a book name). < as lemmas |
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