cane

英 [ke?n] 美[ken]

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復數:?canes;第三人稱單數:?canes;過去式:?caned;過去分詞:?caned;現在分詞:?caning;

1. canal, cannon, canyon, channel => cane.

cane 甘蔗

來自拉丁詞canna, 蘆葦，后外延義甘蔗。

cane: cane: [14] Cane is a word of ancient ancestry. It can be traced back to Sumerian gin ‘reed’, and has come down to us via Assyrian kanū and Greek kánnā (a derivative of which, kánastron ‘wicker basket’, was the ultimate source of English canister [17]). Latin borrowed the word as canna, and broadened its meaning out from ‘reed, cane’ to ‘pipe’, which is the basis of English cannal, channel, cannon, and canyon. From Latin came Old French cane, source of the English word.
=> canal, canister, cannon, canyon, channel
cane (n.): late 14c., from Old French cane "reed, cane, spear" (13c., Modern French canne), from Latin canna "reed, cane," from Greek kanna, perhaps from Assyrian qanu "tube, reed" (compare Hebrew qaneh, Arabic qanah "reed"), from Sumerian gin "reed." But Tucker finds this borrowing "needless" and proposes a native Indo-European formation from a root meaning "to bind, bend." Sense of "walking stick" in English is 1580s.
cane (v.): "to beat with a walking stick," 1660s, from cane (n.). Related: Caned; caning.

1. In school, you knew if you misbehaved you would get the cane.: 在學校不守規矩是要挨藤條的。

5. English schoolmasters used to cane the boys as a punishment.: 英國小學老師過去常用教鞭打男學生作為懲罰.