1660s, "body fluid," from Latin latex (genitive laticis) "liquid, fluid," probably from Greek latax "dregs," from PIE root *lat- "wet" (cognates: Middle Irish laith "beer," Welsh llaid "mud, mire," Lithuanian latakas "pool, puddle," Old Norse letja "filth"). Used 1835 to mean "milky liquid from plants." Meaning "water-dispersed polymer particles" (used in rubber goods, paints, etc.) is from 1937. As an adjective by 1954, in place of clasically correct laticiferous.
雙語例句
1. Also it tends to hide one advantage of LaTeX, which contradicts the WYSIWYG paradigm.
它也傾向于將LaTeX一個優(yōu)點隱藏起來; 而這優(yōu)點反對WYSIWYG典型.
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2. But also when it comes to typesetting mathematical equations of any complexity, LaTeX is still unrivaled.