1560s, from Middle French agathe (16c.), from Latin achates, from Greek akhates, the name of a river in Sicily where the stones were found (Pliny). But the river could as easily be named for the stone.
The earlier English form of the word, achate (early 13c.), was directly from Latin. Figurative sense of "a diminutive person" (c. 1600) is from the now-obsolete meaning "small figures cut in agates for seals," preserved in typographer's agate (1838), the U.S. name of the 5.5-point font called in Great Britain ruby. Meaning "toy marble made of glass resembling agate" is from 1843 (colloquially called an aggie).
双语例句
1. Even the flaming Agate , was agreed that you excelled as Macbeth.
甚至热情的阿加特, 都承认你擅长于扮演麦克白.
来自辞典例句
2. He saw before him a flight of agate steps.
他看到前面有一段玛瑙做的台阶.
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3. Bao Jianzhen natural agate is the national patent products.
天然玛瑙保健枕是获国家专利的产品.
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4. It is round, like the size of a small yellow agate.
它是圆的, 大小很像一个小的黄色的玛瑙.
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5. Slightly susceptible cultivars include Beniizu, Olympia, Shandongzaohong, Centenial and Agate early.
