brusque的词源

英文词源

brusque

brusque: [17] Brusque comes ultimately from the name of an unpleasant spiky shrub, the butcher’s broom, which instead of normal branches and leaves has twigs flattened into a leaflike shape, with at their ends stiff spines. The term for this in Vulgar Latin was *bruscum, which, passing into Italian as brusco, came to be used as an adjective, meaning ‘sharp, tart’. French borrowed it as brusque ‘lively, fierce’, and passed it on to English. It seems likely that English brisk [16] is derived from it.
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brusque (adj.)

1650s, from French brusque "lively, fierce," from Italian adjective brusco "sharp, tart, rough," perhaps from Vulgar Latin *bruscum "butcher's broom plant."

中文词源

brusque：唐突的

发音释义：[brʊsk; bruːsk] adj. 唐突的；轻率的；鲁莽的；生硬的；无礼的，=brusk

词源解释：来自法语brusque（活泼的、猛烈的），后者来自意大利语brusco（锋利的）

同源词：brisk（轻快的、活泼的）

助记窍门：与brisk一起记。做事轻快是brisk，做事轻率是brusque。

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brusque：唐突的

词源不详。可能同brush, 刷子, broom, 金雀花，扫帚。形容不分皂白的，唐突的。