- U
[U 词源字典] - for historical evolution, see V. Used punningly for you by 1588 ["Love's Labour's Lost," V.i.60], not long after the pronunciation shift that made the vowel a homonym of the pronoun. As a simple shorthand (without intentional word-play), it is recorded from 1862. Common in business abbreviations since 1923 (such as U-Haul, attested from 1951).[U etymology, U origin, 英语词源]
- ubi[ubi 词源字典]
- "place, location, position," 1610s, common in English c. 1640-1740, from Latin ubi "where?, in which place, in what place," relative pronominal adverb of place, ultimately from PIE *kwo-bhi- (cognates: Sanskrit kuha, Old Church Slavonic kude "where"), locative case of pronominal base *kwo- (see who). Ubi sunt, literally "where are" (1914), in reference to lamentations for the mutability of things is from a phrase used in certain Medieval Latin Christian works.[ubi etymology, ubi origin, 英语词源]
- ubiquitous[ubiquitous 词源字典]
- ubiquitous: [19] Latin ubīque meant ‘everywhere’ (it was formed from ubī ‘where’ and a generalizing particle -que). From it was derived the modern Latin noun ubīquitās ‘quality of being everywhere’. This was adopted into English as ubiquity [16], which later formed the basis of ubiquitous.
[ubiquitous etymology, ubiquitous origin, 英语词源] - ubiquitous (adj.)
- "being, existing, or turning up everywhere," 1800, from ubiquity + -ous. The earlier word was ubiquitary (c. 1600), from Modern Latin ubiquitarius, from ubique (see ubiquity). Related: Ubiquitously; ubiquitousness.
- ubiquitous (adj.)[ubiquitous 词源字典]
- "being, existing, or turning up everywhere," 1800, from ubiquity + -ous. The earlier word was ubiquitary (c. 1600), from Modern Latin ubiquitarius, from ubique (see ubiquity). Related: Ubiquitously; ubiquitousness.[ubiquitous etymology, ubiquitous origin, 英语词源]
- ubiquity (n.)[ubiquity 词源字典]
- "omnipresence," 1570s, from Modern Latin ubiquitas, from Latin ubique "everywhere," from ubi "where" (see ubi) + que "any, also, and, ever," as a suffix giving universal meaning to the word it is attached to, from PIE root *kwe "and." Originally a Lutheran theological position maintaining the omnipresence of Christ.[ubiquity etymology, ubiquity origin, 英语词源]
- udder[udder 词源字典]
- udder: [OE] Udder goes back ultimately to prehistoric Indo-European *ūdhr-. This, or variants of it, produced the word for ‘udder’ in the majority of Indo-European languages: Greek oúthar, Latin ūber (source of English exuberant), Sanskrit údhar, Russian vymja, German euter, Dutch uier, Swedish juver, and Danish yver for instance, as well as English udder.
=> exuberant[udder etymology, udder origin, 英语词源] - udder (n.)
- Old English udder "milk gland of a cow, goat, etc.," from Proto-Germanic *udr- (cognates: Old Frisian uder, Middle Dutch uyder, Dutch uijer, Old High German utar, German Euter, and, with unexplained change of consonant, Old Norse jugr), from PIE *eue-dh-r "udder" (cognates: Sanskrit udhar, Greek outhar, Latin uber "udder, breast").
- UFO (n.)[UFO 词源字典]
- 1953, abbreviation of Unidentified Flying Object, which is attested from 1950.[UFO etymology, UFO origin, 英语词源]
- ufology (n.)[ufology 词源字典]
- 1959, from UFO + -logy.[ufology etymology, ufology origin, 英语词源]
- ugali[ugali 词源字典]
- "A type of maize porridge eaten in east and central Africa", Kiswahili.[ugali etymology, ugali origin, 英语词源]
- Uganda[Uganda 词源字典]
- from Swahili u "land, country" + Ganda, indigenous people name, of unknown origin. Related: Ugandan.[Uganda etymology, Uganda origin, 英语词源]