subtile

英式音标：subtile怎么读

美式音标：subtile怎么读

subtile词义

折叠展开

adj. 微妙的；狡猾的；敏锐的；隐约的


subtile英文词源

折叠展开

subtile (adj.)
late 14c., "clever, dexterous, crafty; not dense, thin, rarefied," from Old French subtil (14c.), a learned Latinized reformation of earlier sotil (12c.), source of subtle (q.v.). Still used in some Bible translations in Gen. iii:1, and it survived after 17c. as a parallel formation to subtle in some material senses ("fine, delicate, thin").