pheasant

英 ['fez(ə)nt] 美['fɛznt]

TEM8低频词畅通词汇禽鸟

复数: pheasant; pheasants;

pheasant 雉，野鸡

来自希腊语phasianos,雉，野鸡，字面意思即来自Phasis河边的鸟，Phasis河为古河流名，位于今东欧格鲁吉亚西部，现名Rioni River.

pheasant: pheasant: [13] Etymologically, the pheasant is a bird from the ‘Phasis’. This was a river in the Caucusus, where the pheasant is supposed according to legend to have originated. The Greeks therefore called it phāsiānós, the ‘Phasian bird’, and the word passed into English via Latin phāsiānus and Anglo-Norman fesaunt.
pheasant (n.): late 13c. (mid-12c. as a surname), from Anglo-French fesaunt, Old French faisan (13c.) "pheasant," from Latin phasianus, from Greek phasianos "a pheasant," literally "Phasian bird," from Phasis, river flowing into the Black Sea in Colchis, where the birds were said to have been numerous. The ph- was restored in English late 14c. (see ph). The excrescent -t is due to confusion with -ant suffix of nouns formed from present participle of verbs in first Latin conjugation (peasant, tyrant, etc.).

4. The sauce is good with other roasted game birds, too, not just pheasant.: 这种调味汁不但配野鸡好吃，配其他烤猎鸟也不错。