leper

英 ['lep?] 美['l?p?]

暢通詞匯

復數:?lepers;

leper 麻風病患者

來自拉丁語lepra,麻風，詞源同leaf.委婉語，因這種病癥皮膚如同小葉片而得名。

leper: leper: [13] Etymologically, a person suffering from leprosy has ‘scaly’ skin. The Greek word for ‘scale’ was lépos or lepís. From them was derived the adjective leprós ‘scaly’, whose feminine form léprā was used as a noun meaning ‘leprosy’. This passed via Latin lepra and Old French lepre into English as leper, where it still denoted ‘leprosy’. In the 14th century it came to be used for a ‘person suffering from leprosy’.
leper (n.): "one afflicted with leprosy," late 14c., from Late Latin lepra, from Greek lepra "leprosy," from fem. of lepros (adj.) "scaly," from leops "a scale," related to lepein "to peel," from lopos "a peel," from PIE root *lep- "to peel, scale" (see leaf (n.)). Originally the word for the disease itself (mid-13c.); because of the -er ending it came to mean "person with leprosy," so leprosy was coined 16c. from adjective leprous.

1. The newspaper article had branded her a social leper not fit to be seen in company.: 報紙上的這篇文章給她冠以“社交毒藥”之名，稱人皆不宜與其為伍。

2. The building was said to be haunted by the ghost of a leper woman.: 據說這幢大樓常有一個麻瘋病女人的鬼魂出沒.

4. The building be haunted by the ghost of a leper woman.: 據說這幢“大樓”常有一個麻瘋病女人的鬼魂出沒.