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parallel [parallel 词源字典]: parallel: [16] Etymologically, parallel simply means ‘beside each other’. It comes via French parallèle and Latin parallēlus from Greek parállēlos. This was a compound formed from pará ‘beside’ and allélōn ‘each other’, a derivative of állos ‘other’ (to which English else is distantly related).
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allele (n.): 1931, from German allel, abbreviation of allelomorph (1902), coined from Greek allel- "one another" (from allos "other;" see alias (adv.)) + morphe "form" (see Morpheus).
alleluia: late 14c., from Latin alleluja, from Greek allelouia, from Hebrew hallelu-yah "praise Jehovah" (see hallelujah).
candlelight (n.): Old English candelleoht; from candle + light (n.).
guileless (adj.): 1710, from guile + -less. Related: Guilelessly; guilelessness.
hallelujah: also halleluiah, 1530s, from Late Latin hallelujah, alleluia, from Greek allelouia, from Hebrew hallalu-yah "praise ye Jehovah," from hallalu, plural imperative of hallel "to praise" also "song of praise," from hillel "he praised," of imitative origin, with primary sense being "to trill." Second element is yah, shortened form of Yahweh, name of God. Earlier English form alleluia (12c.) is from Old French alleluie.
Hillel: masc. proper name, from Hebrew, literally "he praised."
parallel (adj.): 1540s, from Middle French parallèle (16c.) and directly from Latin parallelus, from Greek parallelos "parallel," from para allelois "beside one another," from para- "beside" (see para- (1)) + allelois "each other," from allos "other" (see alias (adv.)). As a noun from 1550s. Parallel bars as gymnastics apparatus are recorded from 1868.
parallel (v.): 1590s, from parallel (n.).
parallelism (n.): c. 1600, from Greek parallelismos, from parallelizein (see parallel).
parallelogram (n.): 1560s, from Middle French parallélogramme (1550s) and directly from Late Latin parallelogrammum, from Greek parallelogrammon noun use of neuter adjective meaning "bounded by parallel lines," from parallelos (see parallel) + stem of graphein "to write" (see -graphy).
shillelagh (n.): "cudgel," 1772, earlier, "oak wood used to make cudgels" (1670s), from Shillelagh, town and barony, famous for its oaks, in County Wicklow, Ireland. The name is literally "seeds (or descendants) of Elach, from Irish siol "seed."
solely (adv.): late 15c., from sole (adj.) + -ly (2).
ukulele (n.): 1896, from Hawaiian 'ukulele, literally "leaping flea," from 'uku "louse, flea" + lele "to fly, jump, leap." Noted earlier in English as the Hawaiian word for "flea." The instrument so called from the rapid motion of the fingers in playing it. It developed from a Portuguese instrument introduced to the islands c. 1879.
unparalleled (adj.): 1590s, from un- (1) "not" + past participle of parallel (v.). Unparallel as an adjective is recorded from 1650s.
allelomorph: "Another term for allele", Early 20th century: from Greek allēl- 'one another' + morphē 'form'.
allelochemic: "= allelochemical", 1960s; earliest use found in Botanical Review. From ancient Greek ἀλλήλο- + chemic-.