renegade: [16] A renegade is etymologically a ‘denier’. The word is an anglicization of Spanish renegado, a term picked up via Anglo-Hispanic contact at the end of the 16th century and itself quite commonly used in English until the 18th century. Renegado itself comes from medieval Latin renegātus, a noun use of the past participle of Latin renegāre ‘deny’ (source of English renegue [16]). This was a compound verb formed from the intensive prefix re- and negāre ‘deny’ (source of English deny [13] and negative [14]). => deny, negative, renegue
renegade (n.)
1580s, "apostate," probably (with change of suffix) from Spanish renegado, originally "Christian turned Muslim," from Medieval Latin renegatus, noun use of past participle of renegare "deny" (see renege). General sense of "turncoat" is from 1660s. The form renegate, directly from Medieval Latin, is attested in English from late 14c. As an adjective from 1705.
雙語例句
1. Three men were shot dead by a renegade policeman.
3名男子被一個變節警察開槍打死。
來自柯林斯例句
2. The renegade is the first cousin to a rattlesnake.
叛徒象響尾蛇一樣地毒狠.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》
3. When he was doing underground work he was arrested because a renegade informed against him.
他做地下工作時,曾因叛徒告密而被捕.
來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》
4. If the renegade clique of that country were in power , it would have meant serious disaster for the people.
如果那個國家的叛徒集團一得勢, 人民就要遭殃.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
5. This morning's verdict would break the renegade.