larceny: [15] The Latin word for ‘robber’ was latrō. Its original meaning was ‘mercenary soldier’, and it came from Greek látron ‘pay’ (a relative of latreíā ‘service, worship’, which provided the suffix in such English words as idolatry and bardolatry). From latrō was derived latrōcinium ‘robbery’, which passed into English via Old French larcin and its Anglo- Norman derivative *larcenie. => idolatry
larceny (n.)
late 15c., with -y (3) + Anglo-French larcin (late 13c.), from Old French larrecin, larcin "theft, robbery" (11c.), from Latin latrocinium "robbery, freebooting, highway-robbery, piracy," from latro "robber, bandit," also "hireling, mercenary," ultimately from a Greek source akin to latron "pay, hire, wages," from a suffixed form of PIE root *le- (1) "to get."
双语例句
1. The man was put in jail for grand larceny.
那人因重大盗窃案而被监禁.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
2. Haggerman now faces two to 20 years in prison on grand larceny charges.
哈格曼被控重大盗窃罪，面临2至20年的刑期。
来自柯林斯例句
3. It was an essential of the common law crime of larceny.
它是构成普通法中的盗窃罪的必要条件.
来自辞典例句
4. The man was imprisoned for larceny.
那个人因犯盗窃罪而入狱.
来自辞典例句
5. There is a good deal of staff larceny which is siphoning off revenue.