firkin
英['f??k?n]
美['f?k?n]
- n. 容量名；木制小桶
中文詞源
firkin 小桶
fir-, 四分之一，詞源同fourth. -kin, 小詞后綴。即四分之一桶，用來指一種小桶。
英文詞源
- firkin (n.)
- "small cask," late 14c., apparently from Middle Dutch *vierdekijn, diminutive of vierde, literally "fourth, fourth part" (see fourth); so called because it usually is the fourth part of a barrel.