acquaint的词源
英文词源
- acquaint
- acquaint: [13] Acquaint is connected with quaint, distant though they may seem in meaning. It comes via Old French acointer from medieval Latin accognitāre, which was based ultimately on cognitus, the past participle of cognoscere ‘know’. Cognitus gave English cognition, of course, but also quaint (cognitus developed into cointe, queinte in Old French, and came to mean ‘skilled, expert’; this led later to the notion of being skilfully made or elegant, which eventually degenerated into ‘agreeably curious’).
=> cognition, quaint - acquaint (v.)
- early 13c., from Old French acointier "make known, make acquaintance of," from Vulgar Latin accognitare "to make known," from Latin accognitus "acquainted with," past participle of accognoscere "know well," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + cognitus, past participle of cogniscere "come to know," from com- "with" (see com-) + gnoscere "know" (see notice (n.)). Originally reflexive, "to make oneself known;" sense of "to gain for oneself personal knowledge of" is from early 14c. Related: Acquainted; acquainting.
中文词源
发音释义：[ə'kweɪnt] vt. 使熟悉；使认识
结构分析：acquaint = ac（=ad，使) + quaint（认识）→使认识→使熟悉
词源解释：quaint←拉丁语cognitus（认识）。单词quaint的本意是“知识渊博的、见多识广的、聪明的、雅致的”，13世纪时用来形容某物“精巧的”，14世纪时用来形容某人“聪明而又古怪的”，从18世纪90年代后用来形容“老式但又迷人的”，中文一般译为“古雅的”。quaint本身就是一个很“古雅的”单词。在含有quaint的单词中，它依然保持原意，表示“认识”。
同源词：quaint（古雅的），acquaintance（熟人、相识），acquainted（熟识的）
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前缀ac-同ad-, 去，往。quaint来自法语，来自拉丁语cogniscere，前缀co, 加强，词根gn, 知道，同can, know.
