article的词源
英文词源
- article
- article: [13] Like art, arm, and arthritis, article goes back to an Indo-European root *ar-, which meant ‘put things together, join, fit’. Amongst its derivatives was Latin artus ‘joint’ (a form parallel to Greek árthron, source of arthritis), of which the diminutive was articulus ‘small joint’. This was extended metaphorically to mean ‘pision, part’, and when the word first entered English, via Old French article, it was used for a particular clause of a treaty, of a contract, or specifically of the Creed.
Its application to an ‘item, thing’ is a comparatively late development, from the start of the 19th century. A Latin derivative of articulus, the verb articulāre ‘pide into joints’, hence ‘speak distinctly’, gave rise to English articulate [16].
=> arm, art, arthritis - article (n.)
- c. 1200, "separate parts of anything written" (such as the statements in the Apostles' Creed, the clauses of a statute or contract), from Old French article (13c.), from Latin articulus, diminutive of artus "a joint" (from PIE *ar-tu-, from *ar- "to fit together;" (see arm (n.1)).
Meaning extended to "a small pision," then generalized to "item, thing." Older sense preserved in Articles of War "military regulations" (1716) and Articles of Confederation (U.S. history). Meaning "literary composition in a journal, etc." (independent, but part of a larger work) first recorded 1712. Meaning "piece of property" (clothing, etc.) first attested 1796, originally in rogue's cant.
中文词源
来自词根art, 连贯，连结。指把各分开的项目连结在一起。
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：article 词源，article 含义。
article：文章，论文；项目，条款；物品；物件；商品；冠词
如同art,arm和arthritis,article来源于印欧语词根ar-(组装,连接,配合),其在拉丁语中的派生词有名词artus(关节),articulus(小关节,artus的昵称),动词articulare(分成关节→清晰地说,是英语articulate的词源),在希腊语中的派生词有arthron(英语arthritis的词源)。拉丁语articulus(小关节)含有"分离","部件"的引申意义,进入古法语为article,最初被英语借用时,是指"合同或宗教教义的一个条款",19世纪才出现"项目","物品"的意义。
词根词缀： -art-关节 + -icle名词词尾 → “关节”分离而为部件、物品。
