levin

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英語

詞源

繼承自中古英語 levene。中古英語和早期現代英語的拼寫包括 leven, levin, levyn, leiven 和 leyven。^[1]更早期的詞源較不清楚。被認為與哥特語 𐌻𐌰𐌿𐌷𐌼𐌿𐌽𐌹 (lauhmuni)相關（參見該詞條以了解更多）^[2]，最終源自原始印歐語 *lewk- (“明亮的；發光”)。可能是規則反映，可能是北日耳曼語支借詞，或可能來自已失傳的底層語言。

發音

• (英國) 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈlɛvɪn/

• 音頻 (南英格蘭)：

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• 韻部：-ɛvɪn

名詞

levin (可數和不可數，複數 levins)

1. (古舊，詩歌) 閃電；也指明亮的火焰或光
   • 1864，George MacDonald，The Old Nurse's Story:

     His soul was like the night around us now, dark, and sultry, and silent, but lighted up by the red levin of wrath and torn by the bellowings of thunder-passion.

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   • [c. 1280，“Godrich Displays Great Prowess”, in The Lay of Havelok the Dane (語言：中古英語), London: N[icholas] Trübner & Company, 出版於 1868，頁 76，行 2690:

     And forth rith al so leuin fares.

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   • 1590，埃德蒙·斯宾塞，“Book III, Canto V”, in 仙后（The Faerie Qveene . […]），London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 48，頁 475:

     [N]either blood in face nor life in hart / It left, but both did quite drye vp, and blaſt; / As percing leuin, which the inner part / Of euery thing conſumes, and calcineth by art.

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   • 1848，Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë]，“Preface to the Second London Edition”, in Jane Eyre: An Autobiography. [...] In Two Volumes，第copyright版, 卷 I, Leipzig: Bernh[ard] Tauchnitz Jun., →OCLC，頁 IX:

     [...] I think if some of those amongst whom he hurls the Greek fire of his sarcasm, and over whom he flashes the levin-brand of his denunciation, were to take his warnings in time – they or their seed might escape a fatal Ramoth-Gilead。

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   • 1854，Virgil，“The First Georgic”, in W[illiam] Sewell（譯者）, The Georgics of Virgil, Literally and Rhythmically Translated, […]，Oxford, Oxfordshire: J. H. Parker, →OCLC，頁s 20–21:

     Never, elsewhen，源自heaven when all serene / Fell there more levin-bolts; nor flamed so oft / Comets with curses fraught.

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派生詞彙

• levin brand