出典:Wiktionary
出典:『Wiktionary』 (2026/05/07 17:20 UTC 版)
From 中期英語 hyve, from 古期英語 hȳf, from Proto-West Germanic *hūfi, from Proto-Indo-European *kuHp- (“water vessel”), from *kew- (“to bend, curve”).
See also Dutch huif (“beehive”), Danish dialect huv (“ship’s hull”); also Latin cūpa (“tub, vat”), Ancient Greek κύπη (kúpē, “gap, hole”), κύπελλον (kúpellon, “beaker”), Sanskrit कूप (kū́pa, “cave”). Doublet of coupe, cup, and keeve.
The computing term was chosen as an in-joke relating to bees; see this for more.
hive (third-person singular simple present hives, present participle hiving, simple past and past participle hived)
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