acoustic的词源

英文词源

acoustic: acoustic: [17] Appropriately enough, acoustic may be distantly related to hear. It first appeared in English in Francis Bacon’s Advancement of Learning 1605, borrowed from Greek akoustikós. This in turn was derived from the Greek verb for ‘hear’, akoúein, which, it has been speculated, may have some connection with *khauzjan, the original Germanic source of English hear, not to mention German hören and Dutch horen (as well as with Latin cavēre ‘be on one’s guard’, and hence with English caution and caveat).
=> caution, caveat, hear
acoustic (adj.): c. 1600, from French acoustique, from Greek akoustikos "pertaining to hearing," from akoustos "heard, audible," verbal adjective from akouein "to hear," probably from copulative prefix a- (see a- (3)) + koein "to mark, perceive, hear," from PIE *kous- "to hear," which is perhaps from root *(s)keu- "to notice, observe" (see caveat). Acoustic guitar (as opposed to electric) attested by 1958. Related: Acoustical; acoustically.

发音释义： [ə'kuːstɪk] adj. 声学的；音响的；听觉的n. 原声乐器；不用电传音的乐器

结构分析：acoustic = a（无意义前缀) + cous（听）+ tic（形容词后缀）→听觉的、声学的→原声的

词源解释：cous←原始印欧词根kous（听）

同源词：acoustics（声学），acoustical（听觉的，声学的）

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