attachment的词源

英文词源

attachment (n.)

c. 1400, "arrest of a person on judicial warrant" (mid-13c. in Anglo-Latin), from French attachement, from attacher (see attach). Application to property (including, later, wages) dates from 1590s; meaning "sympathy, devotion" is recorded from 1704; that of "something that is attached to something else" dates from 1797 and has become perhaps the most common use since the rise of e-mail.

中文词源

attachment：附件，附加装置

词根词缀： at-方向 + -tach-扣件(连接用的) + -ment名词词尾 → 连接到…上

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