cab的词源

英文词源

cab

cab: [19] Cab is short for cabriolet, a term, borrowed from French, for a light horse-drawn carriage. It comes, via the French verb cabrioler, from Italian capriolare ‘jump in the air’, a derivative of capriolo ‘roebuck’, from Latin capreolus, a diminutive form of caper ‘goat’ (source of English caper ‘leap’ and Capricorn). The reason for its application to the carriage was that the vehicle’s suspension was so springy that it appeared to jump up and down as it went along. From the same source comes the cabriole leg ‘curved furniture leg’ [18], from its resemblance to the front leg of a capering animal.
=> cabriole, cabriolet, caper, capricorn

cab (n.)

1826, "light, horse-drawn carriage," shortening of cabriolet (1763), from French cabriolet (18c.), diminutive of cabrioler "leap, caper" (16c./17c.), from Italian capriolare "jump in the air," from capriola, properly "the leap of a kid," from Latin capreolus "wild goat, roebuck," from PIE *kap-ro- "he-goat, buck" (cognates: Old Irish gabor, Welsh gafr, Old English hæfr, Old Norse hafr "he-goat"). The carriages had springy suspensions.

Extended to hansoms and other types of carriages, then extended to similar-looking parts of locomotives (1851). Applied especially to public horse carriages, then to automobiles-for-hire (1899) when these began to replace them.

中文词源

cab（出租车）：法国的轻便二轮马车

英语单词cab是法语单词cabriolet的缩写。cabriolet是十八世纪时法国流行的一种轻便二轮马车，常用作出租用途。法语单词cabriolet是cabrioler（跳跃、雀跃）的指小形式。这种车之所以被称为cabriolet，是因为当时路面不平，而这种车的车身又轻，所以前进时经常上下颠簸，像是在跳跃一样，所以称为cabriolet，有点像北京人管三轮车称为“三蹦子”一样。

汽车被发明后，伦敦街头的出租汽车的外形很像以前的轻便二轮马车，所以在口语中也被英国人称为cab。单词taxi则是“出租车”的正式称谓。

cab： [kæb] n.出租车，出租马车vi.坐出租车

该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：cab 词源，cab 含义。

cab：出租车

来自拉丁词caper, 山羊，词源同caprice, cabriolet. 原指一种颠簸的马车，犹如蹦跳的山羊。