meticulous
中文来自 ECDICT
- adj.
- 一丝不苟的，精确的，过细的
演变路径（由近及远）
- 英语
- 书面借自 ←拉丁语 meticulōsus “full of fear, timid, fearful, terrible, frightful”
词源说明
Learned borrowing from Latin meticulōsus (“full of fear, timid, fearful, terrible, frightful”), from metus (“fear”) and -culōsus, extracted from perīculōsus (“perilous”). Sense of “characterized by very precise, conscientious attention to details” is a semantic loan from French méticuleux.