diaper

• n. 尿布
• vt. 給孩子換尿布
• n. (Diaper)人名；(英)迪亞珀

來自希臘語diaspros, 白色的，dia-, 穿過，-aspros, 白色。原指一種半透明的織物材料，后用來指尿布。

diaper

diaper: [14] The notion underlying diaper is of extreme whiteness. It comes ultimately from Byzantine Greek díaspros, which was a compound formed from the intensive prefix diaand áspros ‘white’. (Aspros itself has an involved history: it started life as Latin asper ‘rough’ – source of English asperity – which was applied particularly to bas-relief on carvings and coins; it was borrowed into Byzantine Greek and used as a noun to designate silver coins, and their brightness and shininess led to its reconversion into an adjective, meaning ‘white’.) Díaspros appears originally to have been applied to ecclesiastical vestments, and subsequently to any shiny fabric.

When the word first entered English, via medieval Latin diasprum and Old French diapre, it referred to a rather rich silk fabric embellished with gold thread, but by the 16th century it was being used for less glamorous textiles, of white linen, with a small diamond-shaped pattern. The specific application to a piece of such cloth used as a baby’s nappy (still current in American English) seems to have developed in the 16th century.
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diaper (n.)

mid-14c., "fabric with a repeated pattern of figures," from Old French diaspre "ornamental cloth; flowered, patterned silk cloth," perhaps via Medieval Latin diasprum from Medieval Greek diaspros "thoroughly white," or perhaps "white interspersed with other colors," from dia- (see dia-) + aspros "white."

Aspros originally meant "rough," and was applied to the raised parts of coins (among other things), and thus was used in Byzantine Greek to mean "silver coin," from which the bright, shiny qualities made it an adjective for whiteness. Modern sense of "underpants for babies" is continuous since 1837, but such usage has been traced back to 1590s.

diaper (v.)

late 14c., "to put a small, repeated pattern on," from Old French diaprer, variant of diasprer, from diaspre (see diaper (n.)). Meaning "to put a diaper on" (a baby) is attested by 1951. Related: Diapered; diapering.

1. To the British, however, he word " napkin " or " nappy " actually means " diaper. "

然而在英國人的詞匯中, “napkin(餐巾) ” 或寫作 “ nappy ”這個詞實際意義為 “ 尿布(diaper) ”.

來自互聯網

2. Cloth diaper may be folded in a triangle or a rectangle.

用布做的尿布可以疊成三角形或長方形.

來自辭典例句

3. Now I can help diaper him.

我現在可以幫他換尿布了.

來自辭典例句

4. Place the diaper under the infant's buttocks and fold sides in, between his legs.

將尿布置于嬰兒的臀下, 在兩腿之間將兩邊摺進去.

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5. The Gross National Product were seen as a hadgepodge of Buicks, chickens, shirts, and diaper services.

把國民生產總值看成是比克脾汽車, 小雞, 襯衫和織補服務等的大雜燴.

來自辭典例句