finger

英['fɪŋgə] 美['fɪŋɡɚ]

反义词thumb toe

复数: fingers;第三人称单数: fingers;过去式: fingered;过去分词: fingered;现在分词: fingering;

finger 手指

来自PIE*penkwe, 五，词源同five，fist.用于指手指。

finger: finger: [OE] Widespread among the Germanic languages (German, Swedish, and Danish all have finger, and Dutch vinger), finger is not found in any other branch of Indo-European. It is usually referred to a prehistoric Indo-European ancestor *pengkrós ‘number of five’, a derivative (like fist) of *pengke ‘five’.
=> fist, five
finger (n.): "terminal or digital member of the hand" (in a restricted sense not including the thumb), Old English finger, fingor "finger," from Proto-Germanic *fingraz (cognates: Old Saxon fingar, Old Frisian finger, Old Norse fingr, Dutch vinger, German Finger, Gothic figgrs "finger"), with no cognates outside Germanic; perhaps connected with PIE *penkwe-, the root meaning "five."

As a unit of measure for liquor and gunshot (late Old English) it represents the breadth of a finger, about three-quarters of an inch. They generally are numbered from the thumb outward, and named index finger, fool's finger, leech- or physic-finger, and ear-finger.
finger (v.): early 15c., "to touch or point to with the finger" (but see fingering (n.1) from late 14c.), from finger (n.). Sense of "play upon a musical instrument" is from 1510s. Meaning "touch or take thievishly" is from 1520s. The meaning "identify a criminal" is underworld slang first recorded 1930. Related: Fingered; fingering. Compare Dutch vingeren, German fingern, Swedish fingra, all from their respective nouns.

3. He explored the wound with his finger, trying to establish its extent.: 他用手指摸了摸伤口，想要确定受伤的程度。

5. Police and prosecutors manipulated the eyewitnesses so they would finger Aldo.: 警方和检察官操纵目击证人指证奥尔多。