brittle的词源

英文词源

brittle

brittle: [14] Brittle probably comes from a Germanic stem *brut- ‘break’, which had several descendants in Old English (including the verbs brēotan and gebryttan ‘break’) that did not survive the Norman Conquest. It came in a more than usual profusion of spellings in Middle English (bretil, brutil, etc), not all of which may be the same word; brottle, for instance, current from the 14th to the 16th century, may well have come from the aforementioned Old English brēotan. There is also the synonymous brickle [15], which survived dialectally into the 20th century; this is related ultimately to break.

brittle (adj.)

late 14c., britel, perhaps from an unrecorded Old English adjective *brytel, related to brytan "to crush, pound, to break to pieces," from Proto-Germanic stem *brutila- "brittle," from *breutan "to break up" (cognates: Old Norse brjota "to break," Old High German brodi "fragile"), from PIE *bhreu- "to cut, break up" (see bruise (v.)). With -le, suffix forming adjectives with meaning "liable to."

中文词源

brittle：易碎的

发音释义：['brɪt(ə)l] adj.（物品）易碎的；脆的；（声音）尖利的；刺耳的；（性格）尖刻暴躁的；冷淡的；生硬的

词源解释：brittle←古英语britel←brytel←brytan（粉碎）

助记窍门：brittle→bottle（瓶子）→易碎的

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

brittle：脆性的

词源同break，破开。-le, 表反复。

brittle：易碎的，脆(弱)的；冷淡的，不友好的；(声音)尖利的

来源于日耳曼语词干*brut-(打破)。