舊故事裡的年輕姑娘
這一群直接站在那一頁插圖上,差別只在她是被稱呼,還是被寫進一個固定的橋段裡。
noun · B2
A young woman who is not married, especially a pretty young woman in an old story about knights, castles and kings.
少女;姑娘(舊時用語)
Picture a page from an old storybook: a castle, a forest, a young woman of good family who is not married yet, and a knight on the road. Damsel is the name that page gives her. The word arrived through Old French from a Latin word for a lady of the house, in its small form, so it started out close to little lady. That storybook page is where the word still lives, which is why using it about a real woman today sounds like putting a costume on her.
Through Old French damoisele from Vulgar Latin dominicella, a small form of domina (lady of the house), so the word begins near little lady.
經由古法文 damoisele,來自通俗拉丁文 dominicella,也就是 domina(女主人)的小稱形式,起點接近「小女主人」。
Wiktionary etymology tree supplied in this packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:824440942:26163): Latin dominus > dominicus > Vulgar Latin dominicella / domnicella > Old French damoisele > Middle English dameisel.
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舊故事裡的年輕姑娘
這一群直接站在那一頁插圖上,差別只在她是被稱呼,還是被寫進一個固定的橋段裡。
noun · B2
A young woman who is not married, especially a pretty young woman in an old story about knights, castles and kings.
少女;姑娘(舊時用語)