ascend的词源

英文词源

ascend

ascend: see descend

ascend (v.)

late 14c., from Latin ascendere "to climb up, mount, ascend," figuratively "to rise, reach," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + scandere "to climb" (see scan (v.)). Also in 15c. used with a sense "to mount (a female) for copulation." Related: Ascended; ascending. An Old English word for it was stigan.

中文词源

ascend：上升

前缀a-同ad-, 在sc, sp, st开头词根前缩小为a-. 词根scend, 爬，爬升，比较descend，下降.

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ascend：攀登，登上

词根词缀： a-来,临近 + -scend-攀爬