adaptation的词源

英文词源

adaptation (n.)

c. 1600, "action of adapting," from French adaptation, from Late Latin adaptationem (nominative adaptatio), noun of action from past participle stem of adaptare (see adapt). Meaning "condition of being adapted" is from 1670s. Sense of "modification of a thing to suit new conditions" is from 1790. Biological sense first recorded 1859 in Darwin's writings.

中文词源

adaptation：适应，适合；改编，改写 

词根词缀： ad-加强意义 + -apt-适合,适应 + -ation名词词尾

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