chamber的词源
英文词源
- chamber
- chamber: [13] The ultimate source of chamber is Greek kamárā ‘something with an arched cover, room with a vaulted roof’. This passed into Latin as camara or camera (source of English camera), and in Old French became transformed into chambre, the immediate source of the English word. Related forms in English include comrade (from Spanish camarada), originally ‘someone sharing a room’; chamberlain [13], which was originally coined in the West Germanic language of the Franks as *kamerling using the diminutive suffix -ling, and came into English via Old French chamberlenc; and chimney.
=> camera, chamberlain, chimney - chamber (n.)
- c. 1200, "room," usually a private one, from Old French chambre "room, chamber, apartment," also used in combinations to form words for "latrine, privy" (11c.), from Late Latin camera "a chamber, room" (see camera). In anatomy from late 14c.; of machinery from 1769. Gunnery sense is from 1620s. Meaning "legislative body" is from c. 1400. Chamber music (1789) was that meant to be performed in private rooms instead of public halls.
- chamber (v.)
- late 14c., "to restrain," also "to furnish with a chamber" (inplied in chambered, from chamber (n.). Related: Chambering.
中文词源
来自PIE*sker, 转，拱。词源同camera, comrade, curve. 原指拱形的室，现已无限制。
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：chamber 词源，chamber 含义。
来源于希腊语kamara(带拱顶的建筑或房间)在拉丁语中派生的camara或camera,在古法语中派生为chambre。
同源词：camera, chimney
