annihilate的词源

英文词源

annihilate

annihilate: [16] Annihilate comes from the past participle of the late Latin verb annihilāre, meaning literally ‘reduce to nothing’ (a formation based on the noun nihil ‘nothing’, source of English nihilism and nil). There was actually an earlier English verb, annihil, based on French annihiler, which appeared at the end of the 15th century, but it did not long survive the introduction of annihilate.
=> nihilism, nil

annihilate (v.)

1520s, from an obsolete adjective meaning "reduced to nothing" (late 14c.), originally the past participle of a verb, anihil, from Old French annichiler (14c.), from Late Latin annihilare "to reduce to nothing," from Latin ad- "to" (see ad-) + nihil "nothing" (see nil). Related: Annihilated; annihilating.

中文词源

annihilate：消灭

发音释义：[ə'naɪɪleɪt] vt. 歼灭；战胜；废止vi. 湮灭；湮没

结构分析：annihilate =an（=ad，去）+nihil（零）+ate（动词后缀）→使其归零→消灭

词源解析：nihil←拉丁语nihil（零）

同源词：nil（零），nihility（虚无），nihilism（虚无主义）

衍生词：annihilation（消灭）

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annihilate：消灭

前缀an-同ad-. 词根nil, 零，词源同no，见nihilism, 虚无主义。