pinnace
英 ['pɪnɪs]
美['pɪnɪs]
- n. 装载于舰上的中型艇；舰载艇
词态变化
复数: pinnaces;
英文词源
- pinnace
- pinnace: see pine
- pinnace (n.)
- small, light vessel, 1540s, from Middle French pinace (earlier spinace, 15c., from Old French espinace, Modern French péniche; also attested as Anglo-Latin spinachium (mid-14c.)); of unknown origin. The French word perhaps is from Italian pinaccia or Spanish pinaza, from pino "pine tree; ship" (Latin pinus "pine tree" also had a secondary sense of "ship, vessel"). But variations in early forms makes this uncertain.
