antibiotic的词源

英文词源

antibiotic (adj.)

1894, "destructive to micro-organisms," from French antibiotique (c. 1889), from anti- "against" (see anti-) + biotique "of (microbial) life," from Late Latin bioticus "of life" (see biotic). As a noun, first recorded 1941 in works of U.S. microbiologist Selman Waksman (1888-1973), discoverer of streptomycin. Earlier the adjective was used in a sense "not from living organisms" in debates over the origins of certain fossils.

中文词源

antibiotic：抗生素

发音释义：[,æntɪbaɪ'ɒtɪk] adj. 抗生的；抗菌的n. 抗生素，抗菌素

结构分析：antibiotic =anti（对抗）+bio（生物）+tic（形容词后缀）→抗生的→抗生素

词源解析：bio←希腊语bio（生命）

同源词：biology（生物学），biography（传记），biocide（杀虫剂）

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

antibiotic：抗生素

1941年，链霉素的发现者Selman Waksman博士发明了这个单词。希腊前缀anti-表against，与拉丁前缀ante-表在...之前和日耳曼词源的and同源，词根bio-,biot-表生物，后缀-ic表与...有关的。抗生素对抗的是我们身体里的细菌等生物。

antibiotic：抗生素

词根词缀： anti-²抗 + -bio-生命 + -tic形容词词尾