abscess的词源
英文词源
- abscess
- abscess: [16] Abscess comes, via French abcès, from Latin abscessus, a noun derived from abscēdere ‘go away’. The constituent parts of this compound verb are abs ‘away’ and cēdere ‘go’, which has given English cede and a whole range of other words, such as accede and recede. The notion linking ‘abscesses’ and ‘going away’ was that impure or harmful bodily humours were eliminated, or ‘went away’, via the pus that gathered in abscesses.
It originated amongst the Greeks, who indeed had a word for it: apostema. This meant literally ‘separation’ (apo ‘away’ and histánai ‘stand’), and Latin abscessus was an approximate translation of it, possibly by Aulus Cornelius Celsus, the Roman writer on medical and other matters.
=> accede, cede, recede - abscess (n.)
- 1610s, from Latin abscessus "an abscess" (Celsus), literally "a going away," from stem of abscedere "withdraw, depart, retire," from ab- "away" (see ab-) + cedere "to go" (see cede). The notion is that humors "go from" the body through the pus in the swelling.
中文词源
英语单词abscess（脓肿）由abs+cess构成，其中abs=away，cess是词根cede的变体，是go的意思，如access（进入）、recede（后退）、precede（领先）。所以单词abscess的字面意思就是go away（走开）。那么，go away跟“脓肿”有什么关系呢？原来，古代希腊人认为，脓肿是身体在排毒，体内的毒素等不好的体液将以脓汁的形式排出体外。因此，古代希腊人用希腊语apostema来表示脓肿，其字面含义就是go away。古罗马人继承了古希腊人的思想，将apostema翻译为拉丁语abscessus。英语单词abscess就来源于拉丁语abscessus。
abscess：['æbsɪs; -ses]n.脓肿，脓疮vi.形成脓肿
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：abscess 词源，abscess 含义。
前缀abs-为ab-在字母c，t开头词根前变体。词根cess，走，见access,进入。指走出来的，代指脓肿。
前缀abs-即前缀ab-“远离”，当ab-后接字母-c-或-t-时，可能变化为abs-；词根cess指“走”；字面义为“走开，离开”；古希腊人认为，人体内有害的体液会从脓疮出排出，所以这里的“走开，离开”的就是“有害的体液”；同根词如access（进入；入口）等。
