lintel: [14] Lintel is the result of the blending of two Latin words: līmes ‘boundary’ (source of English limit) and līmen ‘threshold’ (source of English subliminal and possibly also of sublime). Līmen had a derived adjective, līmināris ‘of a threshold’. In the post-classical period, under the influence of līmes, this became altered to *līmitāris, which was used in Vulgar Latin as a noun meaning ‘threshold’. This passed into English via Old French lintier, later lintel. => limit, subliminal
lintel (n.)
early 14c., from Old French lintel "threshold" (13c., Modern French linteau), of uncertain origin, probably a variant of lintier, from Vulgar Latin *limitaris "threshold," from Latin limitaris (adj.) "that is on the border," from limes (genitive limitis) "border, boundary" (see limit (n.)). Altered by influence of Latin limen "threshold."
双语例句
1. Under the bed, on the lintel, in the barn - everywhere. But no sign of it.
我们的床下, 门机上、仓角里, 什么地方不找到?
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2. That Song Dynasty lintel etched with a frenzy of folk scenes?
蚀刻着狂热民俗场景的宋朝石雕梁?
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3. Morgenes had to grasp the door lintel to keep from toppling.
Morgenes不得不抓住门楣以防摔下去.
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4. Some of the monument's standing stones have lintel stones on top.
它矗立在英格兰索尔兹伯里市附近的平坦多风的索尔兹伯里平原上.
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5. Thus the post and lintel frame was eventually created.