timid: [16] The Latin verb timēre meant ‘fear’ (its origins are not known). From it were derived the adjective timidus (source of English timid) and the noun timor ‘fear’ (whose medieval Latin descendant timorōsus ‘fearful’ gave English timorous [15]). => timorous
timid (adj.)
1540s, from Middle French timide "easily frightened, shy" (16c.) and directly from Latin timidus "fearful, afraid, cowardly," from timere "to fear," of uncertain origin. Related: Timidly; timidness.
双语例句
1. The newspaper called the plan timid and unimaginative.
该报称这一计划谨小慎微，毫无想象力。
来自柯林斯例句
2. He stopped in the doorway, too timid to go in.
他在门口停住了脚步，不好意思进去。
来自《权威词典》
3. He is too timid to venture upon an undertaking.
