birth

英 [bɜːθ] 美[bɝθ]

反义词

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复数: births;

birth 出生

词源同bear, 担负，生育。

birth: birth: [12] Old English had a word gebyrd ‘birth’ which survived until the end of the 13th century as birde, but it was quite distinct from (though related to) modern English birth, which was borrowed from Old Norse byrth. This came from the same Germanic stem (*ber-, *bur-) as produced bear, bairn, and indeed Old English gebyrd. The suffix -th denotes a process, or the result of a process: hence birth is ‘(the result of) the process of bearing a child’. Along with bath and death it is one of the most ancient words formed with -th.
=> bairn, bear, berth
birth (n.): early 13c., from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse *byrðr (replacing cognate Old English gebyrd "birth, descent, race; offspring; nature; fate"), from Proto-Germanic *gaburthis (cognates: Old Frisian berd, Old Saxon giburd, Dutch geboorte, Old High German giburt, German geburt, Gothic gabaurþs), from PIE *bhrto past participle of root *bher- (1) "to carry; to bear children" (cognates: Sanskrit bhrtih "a bringing, maintenance," Latin fors, genitive fortis "chance;" see bear (v.)).

Suffix -th is for "process" (as in bath, death). Meaning "parentage, lineage, extraction" (revived from Old English) is from mid-13c. Birth control is from 1914; birth rate from 1859. Birth certificate is from 1842.
birth (v.): mid-13c., from birth (n.). Related: Birthed; birthing.

1. I had obtained the authentic details about the birth of the organization.: 我已经掌握了有关该组织诞生的可靠的详细资料。

2. The birth of a live healthy baby is a truly blessed event.: 一个健康活泼的婴儿的出生真是一件可喜的事情。

3. Condoms are an effective method of birth control if used with care.: 如果使用得当，避孕套是很有效的避孕手段。

5. Usually a woman's breasts produce milk spontaneously after the birth.: 女性的乳房通常在产后会自然泌乳。