acolyte: [14] Acolyte comes, via Old French and/or medieval Latin, from Greek akólouthos ‘following’. This was formed from the prefix a- (which is related to homos ‘same’) and the noun keleuthos ‘path’, and it appears again in English in anacolouthon [18] (literally ‘not following’), a technical term for lack of grammatical sequence. The original use of acolyte in English was as a minor church functionary, and it did not acquire its more general meaning of ‘follower’ until the 19th century. => anacolouthon
acolyte (n.)
early 14c., "inferior officer in the church," from Old French acolite or directly from Medieval Latin acolytus (Late Latin acoluthos), from Greek akolouthos "following, attending on," literally "having one way," from a- "together with," copulative prefix, + keleuthose "a way, road, path, track," from PIE *qeleu- (cognates: Lithuanian kelias "way"). In late Old English as a Latin word.
双语例句
1. Richard Brome, an acolyte of Ben Jonson's, wrote "The Jovial Crew" in 1641.
本·琼森的仆人理查德·布罗姆在1641年写了《一伙快活人》。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Grandmother Chen and the " acolyte " had already stolen away.
陈二奶奶和 “ 童儿 ” 已经偷偷的溜了.
来自汉英文学 - 骆驼祥子
3. Acolyte: Damn these intruders! They must not interfere with the master's plan!
