ink

英 [ɪŋk]美 [ɪŋk]
  • vt. 签署；涂墨水于
  • n. 墨水，墨汁；油墨
  • n. (Ink)人名；(英)英克
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中文词源

ink 墨水

来自拉丁语encaustum,红色或粉色熔蜡，来自en-,进入，使，-caust,烧，词源同caustic,holocaust.原指古罗马时期用烧熔化的红色蜡水来签署文件或用熔蜡来封印重要的官方文件。后词义通用化指墨水。

英文词源

ink
ink: [13] The Greeks had a method of painting which involved applying coloured wax to a surface and then fixing it with heat. The verb describing this process was egkaíein ‘burn in’, a compound of en- ‘in’ and kaíein ‘burn’, whose derivative egkaustikós is the ancestor of the term used for the technique in English – encaustic [17]. Another derivative, égkauston, was applied to the purple ink used by emperors in ancient times for signing documents.

As it passed via late Latin encaustum or encautum into Old French enque it gradually lost its imperial associations, and by the time it reached English as enke it was being used for any dark writing fluid.
=> caustic
ink (n.)
"the black liquor with which men write" [Johnson], mid-13c., from Old French encre, formerly enque "dark writing fluid" (11c.), originally enca, from Late Latin encaustum, from Greek enkauston "purple or red ink," used by the Roman emperors to sign documents, originally a neuter adjective form of enkaustos "burned in," from stem of enkaiein "to burn in," from en- "in" (see en- (1)) + kaiein "to burn" (see caustic). The word is from a Greek method of applying colored wax and fixing it with heat. The Old English word for it was simply blæc, literally "black." The -r- in the Latin word is excrescent. Donkin credits a Greek pronunciation, with the accent at the front of the word, for the French evolution; the same Latin word became inchiostro in Italian, encausto in Spanish. Ink-blot test attested from 1928.
ink (v.)
"to mark or stain in ink," 1560s, from ink (n.). Meaning "to cover (a printing plate, etc.) with ink" is from 1727. Related: Inked; inking.

双语例句

1. Ink particles attach themselves to air bubbles and rise to the surface.
墨汁颗粒附着在气泡上，浮到表面上。
来自柯林斯例句
2. She dipped a quill in ink, then began to write.
她将羽毛笔在墨水里蘸了一下，随后开始书写。
来自柯林斯例句
3. The ink had run on the wet paper.
墨迹在湿纸上浸开了。
来自柯林斯例句
4. a blob of ink
一滴墨水
来自《权威词典》
5. written in ink
用墨水写的
来自《权威词典》