broadcast的词源

英文词源

broadcast

broadcast: [18] Broadcast was originally an adjective and adverb, and meant literally ‘scattered widely’, particularly in the context of sowing seeds. A metaphorical sense developed in the late 18th and 19th centuries (William Stubbs, in his Constitutional History of England 1875 writes of ‘broadcast accusations’), and the word was ready in the early 1920s for application to the transmission of radio signals (the first actual record of such a use is as a verb, in the April 1921 issue of Discovery: ‘The [radio] station at Poldhu is used partly for broadcasting Press and other messages to ships’).

broadcast

1767, adjective, in reference to the spreading of seed, from broad (adj.) + past participle of cast (v.). Figurative use is recorded from 1785. Modern media use began with radio (1922, adjective and noun). As a verb, recorded from 1813 in an agricultural sense, 1829 in a figurative sense, 1921 in reference to radio.

中文词源

broadcast：广播，播出，撒播

今天这是个人所皆知的通用词。它是在18世纪出现的，从构词上来看，是由副词broad‘abroad，widely’（四散地，广阔地）和动词cast的过去分词cast（被撒的）组合而成。最初broadcast只作形容词或副词用，表示“撒播的”或“用撒播的方式”，限用于播种。后多转用作动词，表示“撤播”，并进而引申出“散布”或“传播”一义。20世纪20年代初broadcast开始用于无线电信号的播送。这一用法的最早记录见于《发现》（Discovery）杂志1921年4月号一期上：“The (radio) station at Poldhu is used partly for broadcasting Press and other massages to ships.”（波尔杜的无线电台部分用来向船只播送新闻和其他消息。）此后broadcast的原义渐遭废弃，今天引申义几乎已完全取代了原义。据此还衍生了telecast(电视广播television+(broad)cast)， simulcast(联播simultaneous+(broad) cast），newscast(新闻广播， news+(broad) cast)，sportscast／sportcast(播送体育节日，sport+(broad) cast)等缩合词。

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broadcast：广播(节目)

词根词缀： broad广 + cast扔