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bioluminescence (n.)[bioluminescence 词源字典]: also bio-luminescence, 1909; see bio- + luminescence.[bioluminescence etymology, bioluminescence origin, 英语词源]
bioluminescent (adj.): also bio-luminescent, 1929; see bioluminescence.
luminescence (n.): 1884, from Latin lumen (genitive luminis) "light" (see luminous) + -escence.
Fluorescence and Phosphorescence -- Prof. E. Wiedmann has made a new study of these phenomena. He proposes the general name luminescence for evolutions of light which do not depend on the temperature of the substance concerned. ["Photographic News," April 20, 1888]
luminescent: 1889, from luminescence + -ent.
minestrone (n.): Italian vegetable soup, 1871, from Italian minestrone, with augmentative suffix -one + minestra "soup, pottage," literally "that which is served," from minestrare "to serve, to prepare (soup, etc.)," from Latin ministrare (see minister (v.)).
plaquemines: parish at the mouth of the Mississippi in Louisiana, U.S., from Louisiana French, literally "persimmon" (18c.), probably from Miami/Illinois (Algonquian) piakimina.
quot homines tot sententiae: "‘There are as many opinions as there are men’: expressing the fact that there is considerable diversity of opinion, and the difficulty of bringing about agreement", Mid 16th cent.; earliest use found in Richard Taverner (?1505–1575), translator and evangelical reformer. From classical Latin quot hominēs tot sententiae there are as many opinions as there are men from quot how many + hominēs, plural of homō man + tot so many + sententiae, plural of sententia.
luminesce: "Emit light by luminescence", Late 19th century: back-formation from luminescence.