cater的词源
英文词源
- cater
- cater: [16] Cater is related to French acheter ‘buy’, and originally meant ‘buy provisions’. It comes ultimately from Vulgar Latin *accaptāre, a compound verb formed from the Latin prefix ad- ‘to’ and the verb captāre ‘try to seize’ (source of English catch and chase). This provided the basis for the Anglo-Norman agent noun acatour ‘buyer, purveyor’, which gave English the now obsolete acater.
Losing its a-, this became cater, which until the early 17th century was the word for what we would now call a ‘caterer’. At around the same time cater began to be used as a verb; the first known example of this is in Shakespeare’s As You Like It II, iii: ‘He that doth the ravens feed, yea providently caters for the sparrow’.
=> capture, catch, chase - cater (v.)
- "provide food for," c. 1600, from Middle English catour (n.) "buyer of provisions" (c. 1400; late 13c. as a surname), a shortening of Anglo-French achatour "buyer" (Old North French acatour, Old French achatour, 13c., Modern French acheteur), from Old French achater "to buy," originally "to buy provisions," perhaps from Vulgar Latin *accaptare, from Latin ad- "to" + captare "to take, hold," frequentative of capere "to take" (see capable).
Or else from Vulgar Latin *accapitare "to add to one's capital," with second element from verbal stem of Latin caput (genitive capitis); see capital (adj.). Figuratively from 1650s. Related: Catered; catering.
中文词源
cater（承办酒席）：上门为客户准备饮食或酒席
古代在饭馆问世之前，如果人们想宴请客人而家中没有厨师的话，就会到外面临时聘请一些专业厨师，上门来准备饮食和酒席。这种上门服务就是cater。该词来自拉丁语captare（拿、获得），是capere（拿）的反复形式，本意是“采办、准备食品”。提供cater服务的人就是caterer。后来出现了饭馆，很多caterer去饭馆工作，就变成了chef（厨师）。如果一家饭馆的chef接私活，下班后去客户家上门承办酒席，他此时又变成了caterer。现在，cater除了“承办酒席”之意外，还衍生出“迎合，满足其需要，接待”等含义。
cater：['keɪtə] v.（上门）承办酒席；提供饮食服务；迎合；满足…的需要；接待
caterer：['ketərɚ] n.备办食物的人，承办酒席者
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：cater 词源，cater 含义。
发音释义：['keɪtə] v.（上门）承办饮食；提供饮食服务；迎合；满足…的需要；接待；将…考虑进去
词源解释：来自拉丁语captare（拿、获得），本意是“采办、准备食品”。
cater的核心含义就是为别人采办、准备食品。提供这种服务的人就是caterer（备办食品者、酒宴承办人）。他们其实就是厨师，但他们的服务方式是上门服务，来到客户家里为客户承办酒宴。这是因为在古代还没有出现饭馆，人们要宴请宾客而家中没有厨师的话，就去请专门的caterer来家里承办酒宴。后来出现了饭馆，很多caterer就去饭馆工作，就变成了chef（厨师）。如果一家饭馆的chef接私活，下班后去客户家上门承办酒宴，他此时又变成了caterer。
词组习语：cater for（或to）sb.（接待某人，满足某人的需要，尤其是为其提供饮食服务）；cater for（或to）sth.（把某事考虑进去）；cater a party（承办一场宴会）
衍生词：caterer（备办食品者、酒宴承办人）
词源同catch, 指抓，拿，购买。后词义指招待，承办宴席。
