anniversary的词源
英文词源
- anniversary
- anniversary: [13] Like annual, anniversary is based ultimately on Latin annus ‘year’. The underlying idea it contains is of ‘yearly turning’ or ‘returning’; the Latin adjective anniversārius was based on annus and versus ‘turning’ (related to a wide range of English words, from verse and convert to vertebra and vertigo). This was used in phrases such as diēs anniversāria ‘day returning every year’, and eventually became a noun in its own right.
=> annual, convert, verse - anniversary (n.)
- early 13c., originally especially of the day of a person's death, from Medieval Latin anniversarium, from Latin anniversarius (adj.) "returning annually," from annus (genitive anni) "year" (see annual (adj.)) + versus, past participle of vertere "to turn" (see versus). The adjective came to be used as a noun in Church Latin as anniversaria (dies) in reference to saints' days. An Old English word for "anniversary" (n.) was mynddæg, literally "mind-day."
中文词源
词根ann, 年。词根verse,转。
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：anniversary 词源，anniversary 含义。
该词源自拉丁语anniversarius，由annus‘year’和versus‘turning’两部分组合构成，整个词含有returning every year或the turn of the year之意。因此，英语中的anniversary就很自然地被赋予了“周年纪念（日）”一义。另一英语单词annual（每年的）也源于拉丁语annus。
词根词缀： -ann-年 + -i- + -vers-转 + -ary名词词尾 → 一年转一次
