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citadel [citadel 词源字典]: citadel: see city
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capacitance (n.): 1893, from capacity + -ance.
capacitate (v.): 1650s, from Latin capacitas (see capacity) + -ate (2). Related: Capacitation.
citadel (n.): 1580s, "fortress commanding a city," from Middle French citadelle (15c.), from Italian cittadella, diminutive of Old Italian cittade "city" (Modern Italian citta), from Latin civitatem (nominative civitas; also source of Portuguese citadella, Spanish ciuadela; see city).
citation (n.): c. 1300, "summons, written notice to appear," from Old French citation or directly from Latin citationem (nominative citatio) "a command," noun of action from past participle stem of citare "to summon, urge, call; put in sudden motion, call forward; rouse, excite" (see cite). Meaning "passage cited, quotation" is from 1540s. From 1918 as "a mention in an official dispatch."
excitable (adj.): c. 1600, from Late Latin excitabilis "inciting, animating," from excitare "stir up, arouse, awaken, incite" (see excite). Related: Excitably; excitability.
excitation (n.): late 14c., from Old French excitation, from Late Latin excitationem (nominative excitatio), noun of action from past participle stem of excitare "to call out, wake, rouse, stir up" (see excite).
felicitate (v.): 1620s, "to render happy" (obsolete); 1630s, "to reckon happy;" from Late Latin felicitatus, past participle of felicitare "to make happy," from Latin felicitas "fruitfulness, happiness," from felix "fruitful, fertile; lucky, happy" (see felicity). Meaning "congratulate, compliment upon a happy event" is from 1630s. Related: Felicitated; felicitating. Little-used alternative verb form felicify (1680s) yielded adjective felicific (1865).
felicitation (n.): "expression of joy for another's happiness or good fortune," 1709, noun of action from felicitate. Related: Felicitations.
incapacitate (v.): 1650s, from incapacity + -ate. Related: Incapacitated; incapacitating.
incapacitation (n.): 1741, noun of action from incapacitate.
Occitan (n.): "Old or modern Provençal; langue d'Oc," 1940, also "the northern variant of modern Provençal;" from French oc (see Languedoc).
oscitant (adj.): "yawning," from Latin oscitans "listless, sluggish, lazy," present participle of oscitare "to gape, yawn," from os citare "to move the mouth" (see oral and cite).
oscitation (n.): 1540s, from Late Latin oscitationem (nominative oscitatio), noun of action from past participle stem of oscitare (see oscitant).
recital (n.): 1510s, a legal term, "rehearsal or statement of relevant facts," from recite + -al. Meaning "act of reciting" is from 1610s; musical performance sense is from 1811.
recitation (n.): late 15c., "act of detailing," from Old French récitation (14c.) and directly from Latin recitationem (nominative recitatio) "public reading, a reading aloud," noun of action from past participle stem of recitare (see recite). Meaning "act of repeating aloud" is from 1620s; that of "repetition of a prepared lesson" is first recorded 1770, American English.
recitative (n.): "style of musical declamation intermediate between speech and singing, form of song resembling declamation," 1650s, from Italian recitativo, from recitato, past participle of recitare, from Latin recitare "read out, read aloud" (see recite). From 1640s as an adjective. The Italian form of the word was used in English from 1610s.
resuscitate (v.): early 15c., "revive, restore," from Latin resuscitatus, past participle of resuscitare "rouse again, revive," from re- "again" (see re-) + suscitare "to raise, revive," from sub "(up from) under" (see sub-) + citare "to summon" (see cite). Intransitive use from 1650s. Related: Resuscitated; resuscitating. Earlier was resuscen "restore (someone) to life, resurrect" (c. 1400).
resuscitation (n.): early 15c., from Old French resuscitation or directly from Late Latin resuscitationem (nominative resuscitatio), noun of action from past participle stem of resuscitare (see resuscitate).
solicitate (v.): 1540s, from Latin solicitatus, past participle of sollicitare (see solicit). Related: Solicitated; solicitating.
solicitation (n.): late 15c., "management," from Middle French solicitation and directly from Latin solicitationem (nominative solicitatio) "vexation, disturbance, instigation," noun of action from past participle stem of solicitare (see solicit). Meaning "action of soliciting" is from 1520s. Specific sexual sense is from c. 1600.
suscitate (v.): "stir up, excite," 1520s, from Latin suscitatus, past participle of suscitare (see resuscitate). Related: Suscitated; suscitating; suscitation.
oscitancy: "Drowsiness as evidenced by yawning; dullness; indolence, negligence, inattention", Early 17th cent. From oscitant: see -ancy). Compare post-classical Latin oscitantia.
citatory: "Chiefly Law . Especially of a document: having the function of citing or summoning someone; relating to or concerned with this action. Especially in letters citatory (also citatory letters). Now chiefly historical", Late Middle English. From post-classical Latin citatorius of or relating to a legal summons (from late 12th cent. in British sources; also in continental sources; compare earlier citatorium (noun) legal summons) from classical Latin citāt-, past participial stem of citāre + -ōrius.
quercitannic acid: "A tannin found in oak bark", Mid 19th cent.; earliest use found in William Gregory (1803–1858), chemist and psychic investigator.