salient: [16] Salient is one of a large number of English words that go back ultimately to Latin salīre ‘jump’. Others include assail, assault, desultory, insult, sally, sauté, and also salacious [17], which goes back to Latin salāx ‘given to leaping on to females in order to copulate’, a derivative of salīre. Salient itself comes from the present participle saliēns, and was originally used as a heraldic term, meaning ‘jumping’; the metaphorical ‘prominent’ did not emerge until the 18th century. => assail, assault, desultory, insult, result, salacious, sally, sauté
salient (adj.)
1560s, "leaping," a heraldic term, from Latin salientem (nominative saliens), present participle of salire "to leap," from PIE root *sel- (4) "to jump" (cognates: Greek hallesthai "to leap," Middle Irish saltraim "I trample," and probably Sanskrit ucchalati "rises quickly").
It was used in Middle English as an adjective meaning "leaping, skipping." The meaning "pointing outward" (preserved in military usage) is from 1680s; that of "prominent, striking" first recorded 1840, from salient point (1670s), which refers to the heart of an embryo, which seems to leap, and translates Latin punctum saliens, going back to Aristotle's writings. Hence, the "starting point" of anything.
salient (n.)
1828, from salient (adj.).
雙語(yǔ)例句
1. Chronic fatigue is also one of the salient features of depression.
慢性疲勞也是抑郁癥的顯著特點(diǎn)之一。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
2. She pointed out the salient features of the new design.
她指出新設(shè)計(jì)的幾個(gè)顯著特征。
來(lái)自《權(quán)威詞典》
3. For the more salient remarks on the matter, cf. Isis Unveiled, Vol. I.