dowry

英['daʊ(ə)rɪ] 美['daʊri]

反义词

复数: dowries;

1、dow- + -ry / -ery.

dowry 嫁妆

来自PIE*do, 给予，词源同data, donate. -ry，名词后缀。用于指嫁妆。

dowry: dowry: [14] English acquired dowry via Anglo- Norman dowarie from Old French douaire (source of the originally synonymous but now little-used dower [14]). This in turn came from medieval Latin dōtārium, a derivative of Latin dōs ‘dowry’, which was related to dāre ‘give’ (source of English date, donate, etc). Its associated verb, dōtāre ‘endow’, is the ancestor of English endow.
=> date, donate, endow
dowry (n.): early 14c., from Anglo-French dowarie, Old French doaire (late 13c.) "dower, dowry, gift," from Medieval Latin dotarium, from Latin dotare "to endow, portion," from dos (genitive dotis) "marriage portion," from PIE *do-ti (cognates: Sanskrit dadati, Greek didonai, Old Church Slavonic dati, Lithuanian duoti, Armenian tam, all meaning "to give"), from root *do- "to give" (see date (n.1)).

1. His family hoped that his bride would bring a large dowry.: 他的家人希望新娘能带来丰厚的嫁妆.

2. If a young woman did not have a dowry, she went into domestic service.: 如果一个年轻女子没有嫁妆，她就要做家政服务赚钱。

3. The money from her dowry was invested in her mother's store.: 她的嫁妆钱都投到了母亲的铺子里。

4. Although ours has been so pure and poor That you can take them no great dowry.: 贫俭诚所尚,资从岂待周!

5. As a wife , the woman was protected by the setting up of a dowry or decimum.: 给已婚妇女备有一份嫁妆,或者称为“decimum”,以使其受到保护.