insult: [16] The -sult of insult comes from a word that meant ‘jump’. Its source was Latin insultāre ‘jump on’, a compound verb based on saltāre ‘jump’. This was a derivative of salīre ‘jump’, source in one way or another of English assail, assault, desultory, salacious, and salient. Old French took insultāre over as insulter and used it for ‘triumph over in an arrogant way’. This was how the word was originally used in English, but at the beginning of the 17th century the now familiar sense ‘abuse’ (which had actually developed first in the Latin verb) was introduced. => assail, assault, desultory, salacious, salient
insult (v.)
1560s, "triumph over in an arrogant way," from Middle French insulter (14c.) and directly from Latin insultare "to assail, to leap upon" (already used by Cicero in sense of "insult, scoff at, revile"), frequentative of insilire "leap at or upon," from in- "on, at" (see in- (2)) + salire "to leap" (see salient (adj.)). Sense of "to verbally abuse, affront, assail with disrespect" is from 1610s. Related: Insulted; insulting.
insult (n.)
c. 1600 in the sense of "attack;" 1670s as "an act of insulting," from Middle French insult (14c.) or directly from Late Latin insultus, from insilire (see insult (v.)). To add insult to injury translates Latin injuriae contumeliam addere.
实用例句
1. She spat the name out like an insult.
她像骂人似的说出了那个名字。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Forgive me, I don't mean to insult you.
请原谅，我并非有意侮辱你。
来自柯林斯例句
3. He felt the smart of their insult for many days.
他受到他们的侮辱后好多天都感到难受.
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4. The principal castigate the student who have insult their teacher.
校长谴责对老师不敬的学生.
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5. He was still steaming over the insult he had received.
