aggravate的词源

英文词源

aggravate: aggravate: [16] Aggravate originally meant literally ‘to weigh down’ or ‘to make heavier’ (it was modelled on Latin aggravare ‘to make heavier’, which in turn was based on gravis ‘heavy’, source of English gravity and grief; its first cousin is aggrieve [13], which came via Old French agrever). From the first it was generally used in a metaphorical sense, and by the end of the 16th century the meaning ‘to make worse’ was well established. The sense ‘to annoy’, which some purists still object to, dates from at least the early 17th century.
=> grave, gravity, grief
aggravate (v.): 1520s, "make heavy, burden down," from past participle adjective aggravate "burdened; threatened" (late 15c.), from Latin aggravatus, past participle of aggravare "to render more troublesome," literally "to make heavy" (see aggravation). Earlier in this sense was aggrege (late 14c.). Meaning "to make a bad thing worse" is from 1590s; that of "exasperate, annoy" is from 1610s.
To aggravate has properly only one meaning -- to make (an evil) worse or more serious. [Fowler]
Related: Aggravated; aggravating. Phrase aggravating circumstances is recorded from 1790.

发音释义：['ægrəveɪt] vt. 加重；使恶化；激怒

结构分析：aggravate = ag（=ad，去）+grav（重压）+ate（动词后缀）→加重→使恶化、加剧、激怒

词源解释：grav←拉丁语gravare（重压）←拉丁语gravis（沉重）

同源词：grave（重大的、严肃的、坟墓），grief（悲痛、不幸），gravity（重力），gravitate（受引力作用），aggravation（加重、恶化）

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