英语词源字典 - 在线词源网站

centerfield (n.)[centerfield 词源字典]: also center field, 1857 in baseball, from center (n.) + field (n.). Related: Center-fielder.[centerfield etymology, centerfield origin, 英语词源]
centerfold (n.): also center-fold, "fold-out center spread of a magazine or newspaper," 1950, from center (n.) + fold (n.2). "Playboy" debuted December 1953, and the word came to be used especially for illustrations of comely women, hence "woman who poses as a centerfold model" (by 1965).
centerpiece (n.): also center-piece, 1800, from center + piece (n.). Figurative sense is recorded from 1937.
enteric (adj.): "pertaining to the intestines," 1822, from Latinized form of Greek enterikos "intestinal," first used in this sense by Aristotle, from entera (plural; singular enteron) "intestines," from PIE *enter-, comparative of *en "in" (see inter-).
entero-: before vowels enter-, word-forming element meaning "intestine," from comb. form of Greek enteron "an intestine, piece of gut" (see enteric).
entre-: in words from French, corresponds to English enter-, which is itself from French entre "between, among" (11c.), from Latin inter (see inter-).
fedora (n.): type of hat, 1887, American English, from "Fédora," a popular play by Victorien Sardou (1831-1908) that opened 1882, in which the heroine, a Russian princess named Fédora Romanoff, originally was performed by Sarah Bernhardt. During the play, Bernhardt, a notorious cross-dresser, wore a center-creased, soft brimmed hat. Women's-rights activists adopted the fashion. The proper name is Russian fem. of Fedor, from Greek Theodoros, literally "gift of god," from theos "god" (see theo-) + doron "gift" (see date (n.1)).