canvas的词源
英文词源
- canvas
- canvas: [14] Canvas is related ultimately to hemp, for originally canvas was a cloth made from hemp. Latin cannabis (from the same source as English hemp) produced the Vulgar Latin derivative *cannapāceum, which passed into English via Old Northern French canevas. The verb canvass [16] appears to come from the noun: it originally meant ‘toss in a canvas sheet’, and this was perhaps the basis, via an intermediate ‘criticize roughly’, of the metaphorical sense ‘discuss thoroughly’. It is not clear where the political meaning ‘solicit votes’ came from.
=> cannabis, hemp - canvas (n.)
- "sturdy cloth made from hemp or flax," mid-14c., from Anglo-French canevaz, Old North French canevach, Old French chanevaz, literally "made of hemp, hempen," noun use of Vulgar Latin adjective *cannapaceus "made of hemp," from Latin cannabis, from Greek kannabis "hemp," a Scythian or Thracian word (see cannabis).
Latin adjectives in -aceus sometimes were made in Romanic languages into nouns of augmentative or pejorative force. Especially as a surface for oil paintings from c. 1700; hence "an oil painting" (1764).
中文词源
canvas（帆布）：用大麻制成的粗帆布
英语单词canvas（帆布）和canvass（细查）的拼写只有一字之差，它们之间有什么关系呢？原来，它们来源相同，只是一个用作名词，一个用作动词。它们都来自希腊语kannabis（cannabis，大麻），本意是用大麻制成的粗帆布。由于古代人用这种粗布来筛东西，所以用作动词时表示“筛”，进而衍生出“细查、细究、详细讨论”等含义，后来又衍生出“劝诱、拉选票”的含义。而用作名词时，表示“帆布”。由于油画都使用帆布，所以还可以表示“画布”。
canvas： ['kænvəs] n.帆布，画布adj.帆布的
canvass： ['kænvəs] vt.细究，彻底检查，向……拉选票vi.游说，拉选票n.细查，讨论，劝诱
cannabis：['kænəbɪs] n.印度大麻
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：canvas 词源，canvas 含义。
发音释义：['kænvəs] n.帆布；画布；油画adj.帆布制的vt.用帆布覆盖
词源解释：canvas←诺曼时期英式法语canevaz（大麻制的）←通俗拉丁语cannapaceus（大麻制的）←拉丁语cannabis（大麻）←希腊语kannabis（大麻）
同源词：canvass（细查）
词组习语：under canvas（野外宿营←在帆布帐篷下；扬帆航行←在帆下）；by a canvas（毫厘之差←帆船比赛中只差一个帆的距离）
来自拉丁词cannabis, 大麻。指用大麻纤维织的布。
