- 1阿比西尼亞（今衣索比亞、厄利垂亞一帶的舊稱）
Abyssinia is the name European languages long used for a highland empire in the Horn of Africa, in the land that is now Ethiopia and also . Old maps, church history, and travel books still show it; the living country in English is Ethiopia, and that is the name to use for the state today. Abyssinia belongs to the past tense of — the mountains and the people did not vanish, but the official name did. It feels historical and a little . Though actually, English speakers once played with the sound: “Abyssinia!” as a goodbye, because it sits close to “I’ll be seeing ya.” That joke is old-fashioned now, and it is not the meaning this entry is filed under — but it tells you how the name sat in people’s mouths.
組成From Renaissance Latin Abyssīnī (“the Abyssinians”), from Arabic al-ḥabaša, from ḥabaš (“Abyssinian”). The jokey goodbye use later grew from the sound, close to “I’ll be seeing ya.”
同家族的字
- Abyssinianthe old name for a person from that land, and later a breed of cat
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Abyssinianame/ˌæ.bɪˈsɪ.nɪ.ə/
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historicalFormer name of Ethiopia: a country and former empire in East Africa; used as an exonym until the mid 20th century.
Abyssiniaadj/ˌæ.bɪˈsɪ.nɪ.ə/
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datedEthiopian; Eritrean; Abyssinian.
Abyssiniaintj/ˌæ.bɪˈsɪ.nɪ.ə/
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datedExpression of farewell: I’ll be seeing ya.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。