advantage的词源

英文词源

advantage

advantage: [14] Advantage comes from Old French avantage, which was based on avant ‘before’; the notion behind its formation was of being ahead of others, and hence in a superior position. As with advance, the intrusive -dbecame established in the 16th century, on the analogy of words genuinely containing the Latin prefix ad-. The reduced form vantage actually predates advantage in English, having entered the language via Anglo-Norman in the 13th century.

advantage (n.)

early 14c., avantage, "position of being in advance of another," from Old French avantage "advantage, profit, superiority," from avant "before," probably via an unrecorded Late Latin *abantaticum, from Latin abante (see advance).

The -d- is a 16c. intrusion on the analogy of Latin ad- words. Meaning "a favoring circumstance" (the opposite of disadvantage) is from late 15c. Tennis score sense is from 1640s, first recorded in writings of John Milton, of all people. Phrase to take advantage of is first attested late 14c.

中文词源

advantage：优势

advance的名词形式。先行优势。

该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：advantage 词源，advantage 含义。

advantage：有利条件，优势，利益

来源于拉丁语副词abante(前,以前),经由古法语avantage(前)传入英语,其前缀a-同ad-。

同源词：advance 词组/短语：take advantage of (v.)利用