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)).
雙語例句
1. His family hoped that his bride would bring a large dowry.
他的家人希望新娘能帶來豐厚的嫁妝.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
2. If a young woman did not have a dowry, she went into domestic service.
如果一個(gè)年輕女子沒有嫁妝，她就要做家政服務(wù)賺錢。
來自柯林斯例句
3. The money from her dowry was invested in her mother's store.
她的嫁妝錢都投到了母親的鋪?zhàn)永铩?/dd>
來自辭典例句
4. Although ours has been so pure and poor That you can take them no great dowry.
貧儉誠所尚,資從豈待周!
來自英漢 - 翻譯樣例 - 文學(xué)
5. As a wife , the woman was protected by the setting up of a dowry or decimum.