adage的词源

英文词源

adage: adage: [16] Adage was borrowed, via French, from Latin adagium ‘maxim, proverb’. This seems to have been formed from a variant of aio ‘I say’ plus the prefīx ad- ‘to’. In the 16th and 17th centuries an alternative version, adagy, existed.
adage (n.): "brief, familiar proverb," 1540s, Middle French adage, from Latin adagium "adage, proverb," apparently from adagio, from ad- "to" (see ad-) + *agi-, root of aio "I say," from PIE *ag- "to speak." But Tucker thinks the second element is rather ago "set in motion, drive, urge."

发音释义：['ædɪdʒ] n. 格言，谚语；箴言

结构分析：adage =ad（去）+age（说）→常说的→格言

词源解释：age←拉丁语agi←希腊语aio（我说）←原始印欧语ag（说）

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前缀ad-, 去，往。词根ag, 做。催人奋进的话。