wane
中文来自 ECDICT
- n.
- 减少,衰微,败落,亏缺,月亏
- vi.
- 变小,亏缺,衰落,消逝,退潮
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演变路径(由近及远)
原始词根
原始印欧语 *h₁weh₂-
词源说明
From Middle English wane, from Old English wana (“defect, shortage”), from Proto-West Germanic *wanō, from Proto-Germanic *wanô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“to leave, abandon; empty, deserted”).
释义(英文)
名词 Noun
- A gradual diminution in power, value, intensity etc.
- The lunar phase during which the sun seems to illuminate less of the moon as its sunlit area becomes progressively smaller as visible from Earth.
- (literary) The end of a period.
- (woodworking) A rounded