pyramid: [16] Egypt seems a likely ultimate source for pyramid, but its earliest known ancestor is Greek puramís, which passed into English via Latin pyramis. Pediment ‘triangular gable’ [17] probably originated as a garbling of pyramid, later influenced by ped-, the stem of Latin pēs ‘foot’. => pediment
pyramid (n.)
1550s (earlier in Latin form piramis, late 14c.), from French pyramide (Old French piramide "obelisk, stela," 12c.), from Latin pyramides, plural of pyramis "one of the pyramids of Egypt," from Greek pyramis (plural pyramides) "a pyramid," apparently an alteration of Egyptian pimar "pyramid." Financial sense is from 1911. Related: Pyramidal.
实用例句
1. There rose before us the great pyramid of Gaza.
雄伟的加沙金字塔矗立在我们面前。
来自柯林斯例句
2. a pyramid of cans in a shop window
商店橱窗中摆成金字塔形的罐头
来自《权威词典》
3. Traditionally, the Brahmins, or the priestly class, are set at the top of the social pyramid.
传统上，婆罗门，或称僧侣阶级，处于社会金字塔的顶端。
来自柯林斯例句
4. On a plate in front of him was piled a pyramid of flat white biscuits.
在他面前的盘子上有一摞摆成金字塔形状的白色薄饼。
来自柯林斯例句
5. A twenty-foot steel pyramid is to be hoisted into position on top of the tower.
