catafalque的词源

英文词源

catafalque

catafalque: see scaffold

catafalque (n.)

1640s, from French catafalque (17c.), from Italian catafalco "scaffold," from Vulgar Latin *catafalicum, from Greek kata- "down" (see cata-), used in Medieval Latin with a sense of "beside, alongside" + fala "scaffolding, wooden siege tower," a word said to be of Etruscan origin. The Medieval Latin word also yielded Old French chaffaut, chafaud (Modern French échafaud) "scaffold."

中文词源

catafalque：灵柩台

cata-, 向下，沿着。-falq, 架子，词源同balk, balcony.

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