Wal-Mart的词源
英文词源
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- astronomy
- astronomy: [13] Astronomy comes via Old French and Latin from Greek astronomíā, a derivative of the verb astronomein, literally ‘watch the stars’. Greek ástron and astér ‘star’ (whence English astral [17] and asterisk [17]) came ultimately from the Indo-European base *ster-, which also produced Latin stella ‘star’, German stern ‘star’, and English star.
The second element of the compound, which came from the verb némein, meant originally ‘arrange, distribute’. At first, no distinction was made between astronomy and astrology. Indeed, in Latin astrologia was the standard term for the study of the stars until Seneca introduced the Greek term astronomia. When the two terms first coexisted in English (astrology entered the language about a century later than astronomy) they were used interchangeably, and in fact when a distinction first began to be recognized between the two it was the opposite of that now accepted: astrology meant simply ‘observation’, whereas astronomy signified ‘pination’.
The current assignment of sense was not fully established until the 17th century.
=> asterisk, astral, star
中文词源
沃尔玛百货有限公司由美国零售业的传奇人物山姆•沃尔顿（Sam Walton)于1962年 在阿肯色州成立。该公司的名称Wal-Mart由创始人沃尔顿之姓氏Walton的前半截和表示“商场”的单词mart组成，字面意思就是“沃尔顿家的商场”。单词mart来自中古荷兰语，与 英语单词market (市场）同源。
该词的英语词源请访问找单词词源英文版：Wal-Mart 词源，Wal-Mart 含义。
