bureau的词源
英文词源
- bureau
- bureau: [17] Etymologically, bureau seems to mean ‘red’. Its ultimate source is probably Greek purrhós ‘red’, a derivative of pur ‘fire’ (as in English pyre and pyrotechnic), which is related to English fire. This was borrowed into Latin as burrus, which developed into Old French bure ‘dark brown’. This seems to have formed the basis of a derivative burel, later bureau, meaning ‘dark brown cloth’.
This cloth was used for covering the writing surface of desks, and so eventually bureau came to mean ‘writing desk’ itself. Offices being the natural habitat of writing desks, bureau was later applied to them too. The derivative bureaucracy is 19th-century, of French origin.
=> pyre, pyrotechnic - bureau (n.)
- 1690s, "desk with drawers, writing desk," from French bureau "office; desk, writing table," originally "cloth covering for a desk," from burel "coarse woolen cloth" (as a cover for writing desks), Old French diminutive of bure "dark brown cloth," which is perhaps either from Latin burrus "red," or from Late Latin burra "wool, shaggy garment." Offices being full of such desks, the meaning expanded 1720 to "pision of a government." Meaning "chest of drawers" is from 1770, said to be American English but early in British use.
中文词源
bureau（局）：用来覆盖写字台的桌布
英语单词bureau来自法语，来自burel（糙羊毛布）。由于人们以前往往在写字台上铺上一层burel，因此这种桌布就被称为bureau。后来bureau被用来表示“办公桌”，再往后用来表示“办公室”，最后用来表示政府中的一个部门，即中文中的“局”或“处”。由它衍生的单词bureaucracy表示“官僚作风、官僚机构”。
bureau： ['bjʊərəʊ] n.局，处，办公室，办公桌
bureaucracy： [,bjʊ(ə)'rɒkrəsɪ] n.官僚作风，官僚机构，官僚政治
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来自拉丁词burra, 羊毛，粗糙的布，桌布。代指办公室。词源同bur, 芒刺，形容布粗糙。
来源于古法语burel,后为bureau,本来指盖写字桌子的深褐色布,后来指写字桌子本身,写字桌子再后来就指代"办公室"。
