breakfast的词源

英文词源

breakfast

breakfast: [15] Breakfast is the first food one eats in the morning, thereby literally ‘breaking’ the night’s ‘fast’. The word is first recorded in a text of 1463: ‘Expenses in breakfast, xjd’. It is a lexicalization of the phrase ‘break one’s fast’, which itself seems to have originated in the 14th century.

breakfast (n.)

mid-15c., from break (v.) + fast (n.). An Old English word for it was undernmete (see undern), also morgenmete "morning meal.". The verb is recorded from 1670s. Related: Breakfasted; breakfasting.

Spanish almuerzo "lunch," but formerly and still locally "breakfast," is from Latin admorsus, past participle of admordere "to bite into," from ad- "to" + mordere "to bite." In common with almuerzo, words for "breakfast" tend over time to shift in meaning toward "lunch;" compare French déjeuner "breakfast," later "lunch" (equivalent of Spanish desayuno "breakfast"), both from Vulgar Latin *disieiunare "to breakfast," from Latin dis- "apart, in a different direction from" + ieiunare, jejunare "fast" (see jejune; also compare dine). German Frühstück is from Middle High German vruostücke, literally "early bit."

中文词源

breakfast（早餐）：打破斋戒的第一餐

有很多人相信，短暂地禁食有益于身体健康。因此，很多宗教以及地方习俗中都有“斋戒”的做法，即在某段时期减少或停止饮食。斋戒在英语中是fast。斋戒期结束后吃的第一餐就叫做breakfast，字面意思就是“终止斋戒”。由于这一餐通常是在早晨吃的，所以后来breakfast就变成了“早餐”的英语叫法。

fast：[fɑːst] n.斋戒，绝食vi.禁食，斋戒adj.快的，迅速的

breakfast：['brekfəst] n.早餐vt.为……提供早餐vi.吃早餐

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breakfast：早餐

break, 打破。fast, 斋戒。原指在斋戒仪式后所吃的第一顿饭。

breakfast：早餐　　

fast在作名词用时指“斋戒”或“禁食”，breakfast按字面义是breaking the night's fast，故指开戒第一餐，即“早餐”单短语break one's fast作“开戒”或“开斋”解，但早先也有“吃早饭”的意思，breakfast即由此短语而来，确切地说由break和fast组合构成。

breakfast：早餐

fast是“斋戒”、“封斋”的意思，如伊斯兰教每年有一个月为“斋月”，“把斋”的人在这个月白天一天不进饮食。只是在一早一晚，即两头不见太阳的时候进餐，斋月满时为“开斋”，是伊斯兰教徒十分隆重的节日。Break是“打破”的意思，breakfast原意为break the fast，即“打破斋戒指”或“开斋”。早餐是打破斋戒的第一餐，故有此名。