causeway: [15] Etymologically, a causeway is a road paved with limestone. In late Middle English, the word was causey way, causey coming via Anglo-Norman *cauce from Vulgar Latin *calciāta, an adjective derived from Latin calx ‘limestone’ (source also of English chalk, calcium, and calculate). The simple form causey ‘causeway, path’ survived dialectally well into the 20th century, and its French relative chausée, ‘road’ is still very much alive. => calcium, calculate, chalk
causeway (n.)
1570s, from Middle English cauceweye "raised road" (mid-15c.), first element from Anglo-French cauce, Old North French cauciee (12c., Modern French chaussée), from Vulgar Latin *via calciata "paved way," from Latin calcis, genitive of calx (2) "limestone," or Late Latin calciare "to stamp with the heels, tread" (on notion of a road or mound across marshy ground made firm by treading down), from Latin calx (1) "heel." For second element, see way (n.).
双语例句
1. The causeway to the island is only accessible at low tide.
通往该岛的堤道只有在枯潮时才能通行。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Bombay is linked to the mainland by a causeway.
孟买和本土间有一条堤道相连.
来自《简明英汉词典》
3. " They shot Sonny on the causeway, " Hagen said. " He's dead. "
“ 人家在堤道上向桑儿开枪, ” 黑根说, “ 他给打死了.
来自教父部分
4. The causeway was badly lit, there was not a single car.
堤道上的灯光照明很糟糕, 连一辆汽车也没有.
来自教父部分
5. They went forward as briskly as they could on the uneven causeway.